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THE NEW WEST

How California,
land of Reagan,
turned true blue
any, considered Clinton’s
With lavish attention, victory in California the
start of a political realign-
Clinton won the state ment; he won just 46% of the
and reshaped nation’s vote.
But his victory and a
presidential contests. repeat in 1996 — the product
of relentless courtship and a
MARK Z. BARABAK fire hose of federal spending
— helped color California a
Bill Clinton lasting shade of blue and
was busy filling dramatically reshaped the
Cabinet posi- fight for the White House.
tions and It augured a major parti-
shaping his san shift throughout the
economic West, which over the last 20
agenda when a years has become a Demo-
memo landed cratic stronghold, stretch-
from a team of ing from the Pacific Coast
political advisors. Although across the desert Southwest Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
Clinton was still more than a into the Rocky Mountains. SINCE 2021, California’s congressional delegation has won earmarks to renovate affordable housing, build
month away from becoming That political base has new shelters and fund various programs to help homeless people. Above, an unhoused person in Los Angeles.
president, the topic was his freed Democrats to com-
reelection nearly four years pete in the battlegrounds of

Will Congress deliver L.A.

off.
Marked confidential and
spilling over nearly eight
pages, the document out-
lined a strategy considered
the Midwest and reach for
states like Georgia, North
Carolina and Virginia that
were once well beyond the
party’s grasp.

funding for homelessness?

vital to Clinton’s hopes for a
second term: Lock down
California and its generous
share of electoral votes so
his campaign could “con-
centrate its energy on other,
more tightly contested,
states.”
In 1992, Arkansas’ five-
term governor became the
first Democratic presi-
dential candidate in nearly
three decades to carry Cali-
fornia, the political birth-
place of Richard M. Nixon
and Ronald Reagan. Few, if
In this series, called “The
New West,” I’m exploring
the reasons — economic,
demographic, political — for
that change.
In California, there were
several factors.
Among them, the polar-
izing politics of the state’s
Republican governor, Pete
Wilson, which helped acti-
vate the state’s rapidly
growing Latino population
and turn those voters
against the GOP. The
[See Barabak, A7]
Bass asks U.S. leaders for aid; not all are in agreement
By Benjamin Oreskes
WASHINGTON — With a bro-
ken elevator and a spotty HVAC
system, the Gower Street
Apartments badly needed some
updates when the building’s
owner received a surprising call
earlier this year. A city housing of-
ficial suggested that perhaps
Congress could fund repairs to
the supportive housing devel-
opment for formerly homeless
people.
After years of being scorned in
Washington, the rebirth of con-
gressional earmarks could help
address a common conundrum
confronting that building and
other affordable housing devel-
opments: Lenders and govern-
ments make lots of money
available to construct new hous-
ing but not to refurbish
residences.
And yet that February call was
the first time anyone had sug-
gested turning to Congress for
help. Community of Friends, the
nonprofit owner of the Hollywood
apartment building that houses
50 low-income people, many of
whom are elderly or disabled, has
“never received an earmark that
I’m aware of in our history,” CEO
Dora Gallo said.
The $4 million that could flow
from Washington, D.C., to Los An-
geles to spruce up the Gower
Street Apartments, which were
built in 1930 and became support-
ive housing in 1997, exemplifies
one way Mayor Karen Bass is us-
ing her experience in Congress to
try to address the city’s most
pressing problem.
Earmarks, which are now
known as Community Project
Funding, were brought back in
2021 after a decadelong ban in
Congress. Their return rekindled
a debate over whether lawmakers
should be allowed to direct tax
dollars to favored projects in their
districts — a debate that is, some-
what surprisingly, playing out
among three California Demo-
crats vying to succeed Dianne Fe-
instein, who is retiring from the
U.S. Senate after more than three
decades.
[See Earmarks, A12]

L.A. hot topic: Requiring AC in rentals

Ken Lubas Los Angeles Times
PRESIDENT Clinton and Sen. Dianne Feinstein at
the former Norton Air Force Base on May 20, 1994.

the agency as environmental

For much of its history, the West was Republican ground. Today, it’s a Council considers a
bastion of Democratic support, a shift that has transformed presidential feasibility study of a
politics nationwide. Mark Z. Barabak explores the forces that remade
the political map in a series of columns called “The New West.” potential mandate for
every unit citywide.
By Nathan Solis
hyperthermia.
Now, city staff are study-
ing the costs and feasibility
of cooling off all rental units
citywide.
“At this point in the cli-
mate emergency, the ability
to cool one’s home cannot be

Bonta lays blame

considered a luxury and
Heading into the peak of rather must be treated as a
summer, Los Angeles offi- necessity,” Los Angeles City
cials want to know what it Councilmember Eunisses

for migrants’ flight would take to require every

rental unit in the city to have
an air conditioner or central
air.
Hernandez said in her mo-
tion proposing the feasibility
study, which would include a
cost estimate for updating

to state on DeSantis Just last year, Southern

South Americans had
documents pointing to
Florida government,
attorney general says.
By Connor Sheets
and Ruben Vives
More than a dozen mi-
grants from South America
who were recently flown on a
chartered jet from New
Mexico and dropped off in
Sacramento were carrying
documents indicating that
their transportation was ar-
ranged by the state of Flor-
ida, California’s attorney
general said Sunday.
The documents appear
to show that the flight was
arranged through the Flor-
ida Division of Emergency
Management and that it was
part of the state’s program
to relocate migrants, mostly
from Texas, to other states,
Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said.
The contractor for the
program is Vertol Systems
Co., which coordinated simi-
lar flights that took dozens
of Venezuelan asylum seek-
ers from San Antonio to
Martha’s Vineyard in Mass-
achusetts last year, he said.
State officials did not
publicly release the docu-
ments. And as of Sunday,
there were many unan-
swered questions, including
how the flights were ar-
ranged.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSan-
tis’ office did not return calls
or emails from The Times
seeking comment, and it’s
unclear what role, if any, the
GOP presidential candidate
may have had in the flight.
But Bonta said the re-
sponsibility lay with DeSan-
tis.
In an interview with The
Times on Sunday, Bonta
didn’t mince words in blam-
ing DeSantis, who only last
week became a candidate for
president, for the latest inci-
dent.
“This is Gov. DeSantis,
this is his baby, this is his
project, his fingerprints are
all over it,” Bonta said. “The
governor signed it, the Leg-
islature approved to fund it
in the budget, and they hired
Vertol Systems Co., a ven-
dor, to carry out the work.”
He added: “It’s DeSantis
being exactly who he is and
advertising to the world that
he is petty, little ... and full of
political stunts that hurt,
harm and abuse and exploit
people to try and get cheap
political points. It’s wrong.”
Calls to Vertol and the Di-
vision of Emergency Man-
agement were not returned.
[See Migrants, A8]
California was gripped by a
10-day heat wave that
smashed temperature
records. By the time it sub-
sided, Los Angeles County
emergency crews had re-
sponded to 146 calls classi-
fied as “heat” — defined by
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the city’s building code.
“Requiring cooling appa-
rati for all residential units
could be a lifesaving mea-
sure for countless Angelenos
during extreme heat
events.”
The council approved the
[See Cooling, A12]
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
Reed Saxon Associated Press
AL MANZANO checks a North Hollywood apart-
ment building’s air conditioner in 2010. L.A. might
study the costs of cooling off all rental units citywide.
Directors Guild
reaches 3-year
deal with studios
Union representing
19,000 directors and
their teams cites sig-
nificant gains on pay
and streaming resid-
uals. CALENDAR, E1
Inflation alters
how consumers
buy groceries
Amid the rising prices
for food in L.A., many
residents are switch-
ing stores, brands and
even ingredients to
cope. BUSINESS, A9
Weather
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PERSPECTIVES

Versailles’
gardens offer
olfactory trip
back in time
Reflecting Louis XIV’s
vision, the flowers and
their scents signified
French king’s power.
By Thomas Adamson
VERSAILLES, France —
Vahid Salemi Associated Press The Versailles flower gar-
A STRAY CAT walks on the shoulder of cleric Sayed Mahdi Tabatabaei after treatment at a veterinary clinic dens were once a symbol of
in Tehran. Tabatabaei shares his efforts to help stray dogs on Instagram and has more than 80,000 followers. the French king’s expedi-
tionary might and helped
The stories of Versailles’
modern gardeners convey
the hidden intrigue, humor,
knowledge and mystery the
flowers once held. Vibrant
historical anecdotes flow
freely from their mouths, un-
veiling an unending trove of
historical color. Legend has
it that Louis XIV loved the
orange blossom, as featured
in the garden, so much that
his courtiers doused them-
selves in it to curry favor, at
one point causing the king to
faint. The scent from some

Defying taboos in Iran, beloved water-deprived courtiers

perfume their skin. Now,
they have been reimagined
to give today’s public a
blooms was so intense that
the bulbs during this latest
venture had to be separated
in the gardens so that they

cleric takes dogs in off the street

glimpse — and a sniff — into didn’t conspire to produce
the gilded palace’s olfactory an undesirable — or equally
past. intoxicating — nasal mix.
Holding secrets to the There were unexpected
original concept of flower twists in its conception. A
power, scents of Bulgarian “secret garden” — with four
where he takes in street dogs be defrocked in 2021. The rul- “By allowing us to estab- rose, mint and citrus from brick walls — was properly
He nurses the canines and strays and nurses them ing was later suspended, but lish bank accounts and veri- hundreds of vividly colored discovered and renovated
back to health. He has be- he remains cautious. These fying our identities, we historic blooms unveiled last on the site only recently,
back to health and come an unlikely advocate days Tabatabaei wears ordi- would be able to receive as- week waft into the nostrils of sending ripples of excite-
relies on donations for animal rights in a society nary clothes while tending to sistance from individuals paying visitors at the ment among the Versailles
deeply divided over the role the dogs and cleaning their and charities outside of Chateauneuf Orangery of gardening staff. Now a sanc-
from animal lovers. of religion in public life. kennels at Bamak Paradise, Iran without them breach- the Grand Trianon, trans- tuary, it has been adorned
Islam prohibits animal the shelter he established ing the sanctions and risking porting them back in time. with plant species so deli-
cruelty and promotes feed- two years ago. legal complications,” he “Those discovering the cate that only the head gar-
associated press
ing those in need. Across the “We take in dogs with dis- added. gardens will, from flower to dener has the right to handle
Middle East, people put out abilities that cannot survive He also hopes for change flower, understand what we them. One 17th century
QOM, Iran — It’s rare food and water for stray cats, in the wild and have a hard within Iran — specifically, a loved in history,” Versailles plant now growing there
these days for a turbaned often seen safely wandering time finding adoptive lifting of the ban on dog- Palace president Catherine called the firethorn — which
cleric in Iran to attract a in and out of public build- homes,” he said. “Many of walking in parks. Pegard said. “Many are the leaves a delightful citrus
large following of adoring ings. But in Iran and other them are dogs I’ve person- “Pet owners must take original scents.” smell on the fingers when
young fans on Instagram, countries, dogs are shunned ally nursed back to health. their dogs and other pets out The aim of the Perfum- rubbed — is prized and
but Sayed Mahdi by many and local author- They stay here until they for walks,” he said. “Sadly, er’s Garden is to unlock the feared because it literally
Tabatabaei has done it by ities periodically shoot and fully recover and regain their we still don’t have laws to mysteries and significance catches on fire with the
rescuing street dogs in defi- poison them. strength.” protect animal rights, and behind the scented flowers slightest heat.
ance of a local taboo. Iran’s clerical establish- He relies on donations there are no regulations in of the 17th century French Another flower holds se-
Tabatabaei posts regu- ment, which has ruled the from animal lovers in Iran place to prevent animal cru- court — yet also remind us crets in its petals to the love
larly — to his more than country since the 1979 Islam- and abroad. He says the elty.” that it was no accident that story of Louis XV, an obses-
80,000 followers — heart- ic Revolution, proclaimed funds available for such pur- Many Iranians, espe- the Versailles Palace was the sive botanist, and his mis-
breaking stories of abused dogs to be “unclean” and ad- suits have dried up in recent cially young people, have ex- very place where the job of tress Madame de Pom-
and neglected dogs that he vocates against keeping years as the United States pressed frustration with perfumer was actually in- padour.
has treated in his shelter. His them as pets. Many younger has ramped up economic clerical rule over the years, in vented during that century. “Louis XV sent botanical
young fans ask for updates Iranians ignore such calls, as sanctions over Iran’s dis- waves of protests and in The gardens sprawl in species ‘hunters’ around the
on the rescues and send well they do other religious puted nuclear program. The smaller acts of defiance. four sections, reimagining world to bring species back,
wishes in the hundreds of edicts. country’s banking system is During nationwide protests the vision of the Sun King, because he and his mistress
comments he receives on al- Tabatabaei, an animal almost completely cut off last fall, following the death Louis XIV, who wanted his expressed their love through
most every post. lover who wears the Shiite from the outside world, mak- of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini grounds to overflow with the a shared passion for flow-
In some parts of the Mus- black turban signifying he is ing it extremely difficult to while in custody of the coun- scents of orange blossom, ers,” gardener Fulvia Gran-
lim world, dogs are consid- a descendant of Islam’s transfer funds. try’s morality police, Irani- hyacinth, tuberose and jas- dizio said.
ered unclean, driven away prophet Muhammad, seeks Within Iran, the economy ans posted videos online mine. The king had a practi- Grandizio said that Lou-
with shouting, sticks and to bridge the divide. has cratered, with the local showing young men sneak- cal reason for his obsessions: is XV used one of the world’s
stones, and sometimes even “It’s pretty interesting currency plunging to a ing up behind clerics and Following the plague that very first prototype green-
shot by city workers in failed and kind of weird for them to record low over the last year. batting their turbans off killed tens of millions of peo- houses here to nurse his
attempts to control the feral witness a religious figure do- With many Iranians strug- their heads. ple in the Middle Ages in Eu- plants — a version of which is
population. ing this stuff,” he said. “My gling to get by, there is little But despite the recent rope, people feared that hot on display now. Lovingly ca-
Iran’s ruling theocracy videos seem to leave a good left over for the cleric’s furry tensions, Tabatabaei re- water could spread infec- ressing the flower with bil-
views keeping dogs as pets impression on people too. friends. mains a beloved figure for tion. Courtiers instead lowing pink-red petals called
as a sign of Western deca- They say they feel a wave of “I appeal to Western gov- many. washed with alcohol rubs the calycanthus, Grandizio
dence, and hard-liners have kindness, peace, and friend- ernments, particularly the Zahra Hojabri recently and used scents to mask said nostalgically it was
been pushing for laws that ship coming through those U.S. government and others found a puppy dying on the body odors. Madame de Pompadour’s
would prohibit walking videos.” capable of influencing the side of the road. The gentle But there was also a dip- favorite.
them in public. It’s gotten him into trou- lifting of sanctions, to con- cleric was the first person lomatic explanation for Yet the garden has its vil-
But that hasn’t stopped ble with fellow clerics. When sider making exceptions for she thought of to help the these floral obsessions: The lains. Grandizio’s eyes nar-
Tabatabaei from opening a pictures surfaced of him organizations like ours that tiny canine. king’s flower collection rowed when she spoke of
shelter in the city of Qom — tending to dogs while wear- engage in humanitarian and “I think he is an angel, served as a means of project- Marie Antoinette. It was
home to several major reli- ing his clerical robes, a reli- peaceful endeavors,” he more than a human. I can’t ing strength as France be- bad, she said, that the
gious schools and shrines — gious court ordered him to said. put it into words,” she said. came the world’s greatest French Austrian queen
power in that century. wasn’t interested in keeping
“Versailles was all about up the scientific work of the
olfactory diplomacy in those previous king, Louis XV, in
days. Flower meant power. exotic flowers — and was
Dignitaries were impressed taken instead with the
by the exotic flowers be- heady ideas of the Enlight-
cause only the king — who enment thinkers and unbri-
was now very powerful — dled nature.
had the money to fund ex- “It’s a real shame when
peditions to bring back ex- Marie Antoinette arrived at

MAY 2 0 2 3 CFO otic blooms,” said Giovanni

Delu, one of the garden’s
creators. “It’s a vegetal cab-
Versailles that she trans-
formed what Louis XV built,
the big greenhouse and the

LEADERSHIP inet of curiosities.”

Delu said that court-
funded expeditions brought
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soil of Brittany, before being
planted in Versailles. Any
plant nursery, into a wild
English garden,” Grandizio
said, with a hint of sadness.
Despite that claim, Marie
Antoinette loved flowers,
and was at the heart of the
development of perfume.
“She’s not that bad. His-
tory has been unkind to her,”
Grandizio added.
The Versailles Perfum-

CONSUMER French nobleman who er’s Garden opened on Tues-

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THE WORLD

Father finds daughter, 2, dead after Russian strike

By Susie Blann
KYIV, Ukraine — A
Ukrainian man rushed to his
home outside the central
city of Dnipro in hopes of res-
cuing his family, only to find
his 2-year-old daughter
dead and wife seriously
wounded as he helped pull
them from the rubble of their
apartment destroyed in one
of Russia’s latest airstrikes,
authorities reported Sun-
day.
Writing on Telegram af-
ter the body of the child,
Liza, was recovered, Ukrain-
ian President Volodymyr
Zelensky said that at least
500 Ukrainian children have
been killed since Russia
launched its full-scale inva-
sion on Feb. 24, 2022. The
United Nations says that
about 1,000 other Ukrainian
children have been
wounded, and thousands of
others have been forcibly de-
ported to Russia.
Zelensky, who on Thurs-
day had noted International
Children’s Day, said, “Rus-
sian weapons and hatred
continue to take and destroy
the lives of Ukrainian
children every day,” adding
that “many of them could
have become famous schol-
ars, artists, sports champi-
ons, contributing to
Ukraine’s history.”
“We must hold out and
win this war!” he said. “All of
Ukraine, all our people, all
our children, must be free
from the Russian terror!”
Liza was killed when a
Russian missile landed Sat-
urday night in a yard next to
her apartment building
while she was home with her
mother, said Serhii Lysak,
governor of Dnipropetrovsk.
The girl’s father rushed
home from work.
“The father was on duty,
and, as I was told, he person-
ally cleared the rubble and
pulled out his wife and his
daughter. Just imagine the
scale of this tragedy,” said
Ukrainian Deputy Prime
Minister Iryna Vereshchuk,
reporting on the rescue that
lasted until early Sunday.
DARIA Altukhova and her son Danylo in the hallway of their Kyiv apartment where they shelter during night
air raids. Russian drone and missile strikes targeted multiple areas of Ukraine on Sunday, including Kyiv.
The girl’s mother was hospi-
talized in intensive care.
Zelensky said five chil-
dren were among 25 people
wounded in Saturday’s at-
tack, which damaged two
residential buildings.
The mother of one of the
injured children sat amid
broken concrete, twisted
metal, children’s toys and
clothes near her apartment
building and described what
happened.
“I was running from the
electrical station across the
traffic,” Alyona Serednyak
recalled. “I was running
home. My child was alone at
home. We tried to pull my
child from under the cage on
the window.”
She said that they man-
aged to free him and he’s
now hospitalized in inten-
sive care.
Zelensky’s wife, Olena,
focused Sunday on chil-
dren’s suffering in the war,
dedicating a monument to
them in Ukraine’s second-
largest city, Kharkiv.
“Parents hold their chil-
dren’s hand when they take
their first steps, when they
first take them to kindergar-
ten, to school,” Ukraine’s
first lady said. “The worst
thing you can imagine is to
hold the hand of a dead
child. It just shouldn’t be like
that. Children must live!”
Russian drone and cruise
missile strikes Sunday tar-
geted multiple areas of the
country, including the capi-
tal, Kyiv.
The Ukrainian air force
updated earlier figures and
said air defenses downed six
of eight Shahed self-explod-
ing drones and four of six
cruise missiles fired.
Ukrainian air force
spokesman Yurii Ihnat said
that two missiles struck a
military air base in Kropy-
vnytskyi in central Ukraine’s
Kirovohrad province. He
didn’t report damage.
Russia’s Defense Min-
istry said the military de-
stroyed Ukrainian war-
planes and ammunition de-
Sasha Maslov For the Washington Post
pots in strikes on Ukrainian
airfields, but didn’t give fur-
ther specifics.
The Russian military has
reported attacks in recent
days on Ukrainian air de-
fense batteries, air bases,
troop and ammunition de-
pots, military production
factories, command and ob-
servation points and other
battlefield positions. The
strikes come as Ukrainian
officials refrain from an-
nouncing the launch of their
much-anticipated counter-
offensive to reclaim more
Russian-occupied territory,
although the pace of military
activity suggests the opera-
tion may already be under-
way.
Ukrainian forces main-
tained pressure on Russian
forces in the eastern city of
Bakhmut, which Moscow
claimed control of last
month after the war’s long-
est and bloodiest battle.
Elsewhere, Russians
fighting alongside Ukrain-
ian forces declared they had
launched new attacks on
Russia’s Belgorod region,
which borders Ukraine. One
of the groups, the Russian
Volunteer Corps, released
videos Sunday showing a
purported raid and offering
to exchange prisoners with
Russian authorities. The
Associated Press couldn’t
independently verify the
videos’ authenticity.
Belgorod Gov. Vya-
cheslav Gladkov responded
to the prisoner exchange of-
fer in a video of his own, say-
ing that he was skeptical
that the captives are still
alive, but that he was open to
a meeting to discuss a swap.
The Russian Volunteer
Corps said in a video posted
later that no meeting had oc-
curred, and that the Russian
prisoners would be turned
over to Ukrainian forces,
who have periodically
swapped prisoners with
Russia in one of the few
areas of cooperation.
Gladkov also reported
more Ukrainian shelling
Sunday of the border dis-
trict of Shebekino and
neighboring areas. He said
that at least two people were
killed and multiple people
wounded Saturday and that
several fires started.
Russia’s Defense Min-
istry said the country’s
forces repelled an attempted
incursion in the town of No-
vaya Tavolzhanka.
Some observers see at-
tacks in Belgorod as part of
Ukraine’s efforts to distract
Moscow and stretch its
forces to help the counterof-
fensive succeed.
In Crimea, which Russia
illegally annexed from
Ukraine in 2014, regional
leader Sergei Aksyonov re-
ported a Ukrainian drone at-
tack on the city of Dzhankoi
early Sunday. He said that
five of the attacking drones
were shot down and four
others were jammed and
forced to land, adding that
there were no casualties.
The latest Russian raids
on Ukrainian cities sparked
concerns over civilian safety
after officials announced
that nearly a quarter of the
4,800 air raid shelters they
inspected were locked or un-
fit for use.
In Kyiv, 44% of 1,078 shel-
ters were found closed or un-
usable, Minister for Strate-
gic Industries Oleksandr
Kamyshin said Sunday.
The official acknowledg-
ments came after a 33-year-
old woman in Kyiv report-
edly died while waiting out-
side a shuttered shelter dur-
ing a Russian missile bar-
rage Thursday.
Prosecutors in the capi-
tal said that four people
were detained as part of a
criminal investigation into
the woman’s death as she
and others waited to enter a
locked shelter. A security
guard who allegedly failed to
unlock the doors remained
in custody. Three others, in-
cluding a local official, were
placed under house arrest.
Blann writes for the
Associated Press. AP writer
Andrew Katell in New York
contributed to this report.

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Signaling error cited in India train crash

through the door that was found in the engine, and the
A mistaken change forced open people writhing work was completed Sunday
in pain. Many of the passen- morning, said Sudhanshu
of tracks resulted in gers were dead. Others were Sarangi, director-general of
deadly head-on frantically trying to get out fire and emergency services
from the twisted wreckage of in Odisha.
collision, officials say. his rail car. The crash occurred at a
For hours, Mahato, 37, re- time when Prime Minister
By Rafiq Maqbool mained stuck in the train’s Narendra Modi is focusing
and Ashok Sharma bathroom, before rescuers on modernizing the British
scaled up the wreckage and colonial-era railroad net-
BALASORE, India — pulled him out. work in India, now the
The derailment in eastern “God saved me,” he said, world’s most populous
India that killed 275 people lying on the hospital bed country with 1.42 billion peo-
and injured hundreds was while recuperating from a ple. Despite government ef-
caused by an error in the hairline fracture in his ster- forts to improve safety, sev-
electronic signaling system num. “I am very lucky I am eral hundred accidents oc-
that led a train to wrongly alive.” cur every year on India’s
change tracks and crash into Mahato’s friends weren’t railways, the largest train
a freight train, officials said so lucky. Four of them died in network under one manage-
Sunday. the crash, he said. ment in the world.
Authorities worked to Meanwhile, many des- Modi visited the crash
clear the mangled wreckage perate relatives were strug- site Saturday and talked to
of the two passenger trains gling to identify the bodies of rescue officials. He also vis-
that derailed Friday night in their loved ones because of ited a hospital to inquire
Balasore district in Odisha Rafiq Maqbool Associated Press the gruesomeness of the in- about the injured, and spoke
state in one of the country’s WORKERS CARRY a victim’s body from the scene of the crash involving two juries. Others were search- to some of them.
deadliest rail disasters in passenger trains and a freight train in India’s Balasore district; 275 people died. ing hospitals to check He told reporters he felt
decades. whether relatives were alive. the pain of the crash victims.
An Odisha government omandel Express’ coaches ing system is a safety mecha- dy. Railway workers toiled In the same hospital He said the government
statement revised the death onto another track, causing nism designed to prevent under the sun’s glare to lay where Mahato was recover- would do its utmost to help
toll to 275 after a top state of- the oncoming Yesvantpur- conflicting movements be- down blocks of cement to fix ing, Bulti Khatun roamed them and punish anyone
ficer put the number at more Howrah Express from the tween trains. It also moni- the broken tracks. A crew outside the premises in a found responsible.
than 300 on Sunday morn- opposite side also to derail, tors the status of signals with excavators was remov- dazed state, holding an iden- In 1995, two trains col-
ing. The officer spoke on she said. that tell drivers how close ing mud and the debris to tity card of her husband who lided near New Delhi, killing
condition of anonymity as he The passenger trains, they are to a next train, how clear the crash site. was on board the Coroman- 358 people in one of the
was not authorized to speak carrying 2,296 people, were fast they can go and the At a nearby hospital, sur- del Express and traveling to worst rail accidents in India.
to reporters. not exceeding the speed lim- presence of stationary vivors spoke of the horror of southern Chennai city. In 2016, a passenger train slid
Jaya Verma Sinha, a sen- it, she said. Trains that carry trains on the track. the moment of the crash. Khatun said she visited off the tracks between In-
ior railway official, said the goods are often parked on an “The system is 99.9% er- Pantry worker Inder the morgue and other hospi- dore and Patna, killing 146.
preliminary investigations adjacent loop line so the ror-free. But 0.1% chances Mahato could not remember tals to look for him, but was Most crashes in India are
revealed that a signal was main line is clear for a pass- are always there for an er- the exact sequence of unable to find him. blamed on human error or
given to the high-speed Cor- ing train. ror,” Verma said. To a ques- events, but said he heard a “I am so helpless,” she outdated signaling equip-
omandel Express to run on Verma said the cause of tion on whether the crash loud bang when the Coro- said, sobbing. ment.
the main track line, but the the crash was related to an could be a case of sabotage, mandel Express crashed Fifteen bodies were re- About 22 million people
signal later changed, and the error in the electronic sig- she responded, “Nothing is into the freight train. The covered Saturday evening, ride 14,000 Indian trains
train instead entered an ad- naling system. She said a de- ruled out.” impact caused Mahato, who and efforts continued each day on 40,000 miles of
jacent loop line where it tailed investigation will re- On Sunday, a few shat- was in the bathroom, to overnight with heavy cranes track.
rammed into a freight veal whether the error was tered carriages, mangled briefly lose consciousness. being used to remove an en-
loaded with iron ore. human or technical. and overturned, were the Moments later when he gine that settled on top of a Maqbool and Sharma write
The collision flipped Cor- The electronic interlock- only remnants of the trage- opened his eyes, he saw rail car. No bodies were for the Associated Press.

Hundreds of thousands march to protest Poland’s government

pling communism in Poland, and two children. A hand- research. a test for Tusk’s Civic Plat- tion.
By Vanessa Gera marched alongside the made sign reading “I cannot Critics point mainly to form, a centrist and pro-Eu- That fear was underlined
leader of the opposition give up freedom” was at- the party’s step-by-step ropean party that has last weekend when Kaczyn-
WARSAW — Hundreds of Civic Platform party, ex- tached to their baby stroller. takeover of the judiciary and trailed behind Law and Jus- ski was asked by a reporter if
thousands of people Prime Minister Donald Tusinski said he worries media, and fear that Law tice in polls. he still had trust in the de-
marched in an anti-govern- Tusk. about the creeping return of and Justice could eventually However, the passage of a fense minister in connection
ment protest in Poland’s Walesa and Tusk are re- an authoritarian system force Poland to leave the 27- contentious law last month with a Russian missile that
capital Sunday, with citizens viled by the ruling Law and similar to what he remem- member European Union. seems to have mobilized fell in Poland in December.
traveling from across the Justice party led by Jaroslaw bers from his childhood. A clampdown on abor- greater support for Tusk. “I am forced ... to view you
country to voice their anger Kaczynski, and the Warsaw “We want a free country tion rights has triggered Poland is expected to hold a as a representative of the
at officials who they say have crowd chanted, “Democ- for our children,” he said. mass protests. Some also general election in October. Kremlin,” he replied. “Be-
eroded democratic norms racy!” and “Constitution!” Supporters of the march voiced anger at double-digit The law allows for the cre- cause only the Kremlin
and created fears that the The rally started at have warned that the elec- inflation in the country. Po- ation of a commission to in- wants this man to stop being
nation is following Hungary Prime Minister Mateusz tion might be the nation’s land’s government blames vestigate Russian influence the minister of national de-
and Turkey down the path to Morawiecki’s office and last chance to stop the ero- Russia’s war in Ukraine and in Poland. Critics argue that fense.”
autocracy. ended up at the Royal Cas- sion of democracy under the COVID-19 pandemic, but it would have unconstitu- The media freedom
Warsaw Mayor Rafal tle, where Tusk hailed the Law and Justice amid grow- economists say its spending tional powers, including the group Reporters Without
Trzaskowski, who belongs to turnout and pledged to fight ing fears that the fall election policies have accelerated capacity to exclude officials Borders expressed concerns
the opposition party that led to win an autumn election. might not be fair. spiraling prices. from public life for a decade. that the commission “could
the march, estimated that “We are going to these Law and Justice has Barbara Dec, 26, and her They fear it will be used by serve as a new weapon for
500,000 people took part. elections to win and to right found a popular formula, grandmother left their the ruling party to remove this type of attack, in which
The Onet news portal esti- human wrongs. I promise combining higher social hometown of Zielona Gora Tusk and other opponents doubt is cast on journalists’
mated that there were at you victory, a settlement of spending with socially con- at 4:30 a.m. and traveled sev- from public life. probity.”
least 300,000 at the march’s evil, compensation for hu- servative policies and sup- en hours on a bus to protest. President Andrzej Duda, Tusk, who once served as
culmination. man wrongs and reconcilia- port for the church in the Dec held up a cardboard who signed the law May 29, European Council presi-
Large crowds also gath- tion among Poles,” Tusk told mostly Catholic nation. sign that read “I am afraid to proposed amendments to it dent, had called for the
ered in Krakow and other the crowd. However, critics have have children in Poland.” Friday. In the meantime, the march weeks ago.
cities across the nation of The government spokes- warned for years that the “Women have lost the law will take effect with no Law and Justice sought
38 million, showing frustra- man, Piotr Mueller, accused party is reversing many of right to have an abortion guarantees that lawmakers to discourage participation
tion with a government that Tusk and Walesa of “trying the achievements made even when the fetus is termi- in Parliament will weaken with a video spot using
critics accuse of violating the to overthrow the govern- since Poland emerged from nally ill, and some women the commission’s powers. Auschwitz as a theme —
constitution and eroding ment.” communist rule in 1989. have died,” she said. “And I Some Poles say it could drawing criticism from the
fundamental rights in Po- Tusk had called on Poles The U.S. government has am also afraid I couldn’t come to resemble the inves- state museum that pre-
land. to march with him for the intervened at times when it manage financially.” tigations of Joseph McCar- serves the site of the Nazi
Former President Lech sake of the nation’s future — thought the government The march was held on thy, the U.S. senator whose German death camp.
Walesa, the leader of the Sol- a message that resonated was eroding media liberties the 34th anniversary of Po- anti-communist campaign
idarity movement that with Radek Tusinski, 49, and academic freedom in land’s first partly-free elec- in the early 1950s led to hys- Gera writes for the
played a historic role in top- who arrived with his wife the area of Holocaust tion. The protest was seen as teria and political persecu- Associated Press.

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Farmers left holding the bag in pot market
New York’s fledgling
legal marijuana crop
lacks enough licensed
dispensaries for retail.
By Michael Hill
ARGYLE, N.Y. — Seth
Jacobs has about 100 bins
packed with marijuana
flower sitting in storage at
his upstate New York farm.
And that’s a problem.
There aren’t enough places
to sell it.
The 700 pounds of pun-
gent flower was harvested
last year as part of New
York’s first crop of legally
grown pot for recreational
use. He also has roughly 220
pounds of distillate. Months
later, there are only a dozen
licensed dispensaries state-
wide to sell what Jacobs and
more than 200 other farmers
produced.
Now, another growing
season is underway and far-
mers still sitting on much of
last year’s harvest are in a fi-
nancial bind.
“We are really under the
gun here. We’re all losing
money,” Jacobs recently said
at his farm on rolling land
near the Vermont border.
“Even the most entrepre-
neurial and ambitious
amongst us just can’t move
much product in this envi-
ronment.”
New York pot farmers ar-
en’t the only ones struggling
with difficult economic con-
ditions. Marijuana growers
in Western states have also
complained that low prices,
tough competition from the
black market, high state
taxes, and federal banking
and exporting restrictions
have made it tough for legal
growers to make money.
But the farmers’ plight in
New York is directly tied to
the bumpy launch of the
state’s recreational pot mar-
ket.
State leaders had always
planned to gear up the mar-
ket in stages, giving a chance
for a diverse set of participa-
nts to get a toehold. The
state’s process for licensing
new dispensaries, however,
has moved at a far slower
pace than expected.
Last fall, Gov. Kathy
Hochul foresaw 20 new
shops opening every month
or so to start this year. In-
stead, one store was open by
the start of the year, with 11
Officially nonpartisan, torn by political discord
Nebraska Legislature’s
filibuster-filled session
is ‘clearly the worst ...
we’ve had,’ clerk says.
By Margery A. Beck
LINCOLN, Neb. — The
Nebraska Legislature has
long prided itself on being a
paragon of collegiality and
function, as the only single-
chamber, officially nonparti-
san Legislature in the coun-
try.
But after a 2023 session in
which the body of 49 law-
makers remained irreconcil-
ably split, Nebraska’s state-
house is beginning to reflect
broad, national discord.
The acrimony was on dis-
play as a handful of prog-
ressive lawmakers carried
out a filibuster of nearly ev-
ery bill that came up for de-
bate — including ones they
supported — to protest a bill
targeting transgender mi-
nors. The filibuster drew na-
tional media attention, re-
vealing lawmakers’ divide
over political ideology — ex-
pressed through yelling,
name-calling, crying and the
refusal of some to speak to
other lawmakers.
“I never saw anything
even close to what we wit-
nessed this year,” said Pat-
rick O’Donnell, who served
for 45 years as clerk of the
Nebraska Legislature until
his retirement in December.
“This was clearly the worst
legislative session we’ve
had. It’s just a totally differ-
ent animal.”
While officially nonparti-
san, all of the Legislature’s
members are registered as
Republicans, Democrats or
independents. Republicans
hold a strong majority with
32 seats, but need 33 votes to
break a filibuster — a slim
margin that has left Repub-
FARMERS growing New York’s first legal marijuana crop are having difficulty moving their product. Above, a marijuana plant seedling.
more opened since.
Unlicensed shops rushed
in to fill the void, especially in
New York City, but those
outlets aren’t a legal market
for the state’s farmers. Fed-
eral law prohibits the New
York farmers from trans-
porting their crop across
state lines.
That means limited shelf
space to sell the 300,000
pounds of cannabis grown in
the state last year, much of
the product meant to be
processed for items like
gummies and vapes.
Statewide, there is esti-
mated to be hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars’ worth of un-
sold cannabis, about 80% in
the form of cannabis oil, ac-
cording to the Cannabis
Assn. of New York, a trade
group. There are concerns
the smokable flower will
eventually become too old to
sell.
Jacobs keeps his bins of
buds at Slack Hollow Orga-
nics in secure, temperature-
controlled units. More valu-
able still is the distillate at
various processors he’s wait-
ing to sell.
Elsewhere in rural New
York, Brittany Carbone, co-
founder of Tricolla Farms,
said the stock they’re sitting
on includes 1,500 packs of
REPUBLICANS HOLD a strong majority of 32 seats in Nebraska’s Legislature,
which is officially nonpartisan, but they would need 33 votes to break a filibuster.
licans unable in recent years
to pass signature legislation,
such as a near-total abortion
ban last year and a bill to al-
low people to carry con-
cealed guns without a per-
mit.
Frustration over those
losses led conservatives to
open this session with ag-
gressive moves to exert
more control over a state
government they’ve domi-
nated for decades. They
bucked norms to fill legisla-
tive committees, which de-
termine what bills will be de-
bated by the full Legislature,
with hard-line conserva-
tives. They did that by re-
moving moderate and prog-
ressive lawmakers from key
panels and replacing them
with more conservative
ones, a practice referred to
as “cracking and packing.”
Then came the trans
THE NATION
pre-rolled joints and about
2,000 packs of edibles.
“What we really need to
see is more retailers get
open, and that’s going to ac-
tually give us the sustain-
able solution,” Carbone said.
The lack of sales is a par-
ticular problem for small far-
mers who stretched them-
selves thin financially to pro-
duce last year’s crop and
now need capital for their
second year.
Jacobs, whose brand is
Bud & Boro, said he won’t
grow plants for distillate this
year because of the backlog.
Carbone said they are plant-
ing on less than the acre
they’re legally allowed and
are holding off on infrastruc-
ture investments, like hoop
houses to help with growing.
In New York, many critics
blame missteps by state offi-
cials in their well-inten-
tioned effort to open the
market to a diverse array of
entrepreneurs. That meant
reserving the first legal pot
harvests for struggling
hemp farmers. And people
with past marijuana
convictions were given the
chance to open some of the
first dispensaries.
Critics say the process
has been cumbersome for
dispensary applicants. And
Eileen T. Meslar Omaha World-Herald
health bill by Omaha Sen.
Kathleen Kauth, who par-
roted far-right fears that
children are being manipu-
lated, calling the rising num-
ber of transgender teens “a
social contagion.”
Omaha Sen. Machaela
Cavanaugh said she would
filibuster every bill if Kauth’s
bill advanced, adding she
would “burn the session to
the ground over this bill.”
Conservatives respond-
ed, not only advancing the
bill, but amending it to add a
12-week abortion ban, fol-
lowing a nationwide, conser-
vative wave of bills targeting
abortion and transgender
rights. The hybrid bill
passed and was signed into
law by Republican Gov. Jim
Pillen in late March.
The spectacle that
played out over the 90-day
session came as a shock to
‘Even the most
entrepreneurial and
ambitious amongst us just
can’t move much product in
this environment.’
marijuana farmer in upstate New York
there have been issues with a
planned $200-million fund to
help “social equity” dispen-
sary licensees with the costly
task of setting up shops.
The fund was supposed
to consist of up to $150 mil-
lion in private investment.
But state Dormitory Au-
thority spokesperson Jeffrey
Gordon declined to say
whether any private money
had been invested yet, say-
ing in an email only that
“work to raise private capital
is ongoing.”
Gordon noted New
York’s “complex and unprec-
edented” effort to create a
new statewide enterprise
from scratch, which in-
cluded evaluating 10,000
commercial properties for
dispensary locations and ar-
longtime statehouse ob-
servers.
Omaha Sen. Megan
Hunt, a left-leaning law-
maker who left the Demo-
cratic Party mid-session to
register as an independent,
revealed in a speech on the
floor that her 13-year-old
child is transgender. She
begged fellow lawmakers not
to strip her or doctors of the
right to care for her child.
Her plea was met with a
formal ethics complaint
filed by a far-right activist
who claimed she had a con-
flict of interest because her
child is transgender. That
complaint was dismissed as
unfounded Friday.
Frustration saw Hunt
and Cavanaugh often lash
out at conservative lawmak-
ers — who continued to vote
to restrict residents’ access
to gender-affirming care —
— S ETH JACOBS ,
ranging for banking, train-
ing and other services for the
licensees.
The retail rollout also
was hobbled by a federal
judge’s ruling in November
that temporarily barred
New York from issuing dis-
pensary licenses in parts of
the state, including Brook-
lyn and Buffalo. The injunc-
tion was later narrowed to
the Finger Lakes region be-
fore a settlement was
reached this week.
The Office of Cannabis
Management has taken re-
cent steps to boost demand,
including the provisional ap-
proval last month of 50 new
dispensary licenses. And
plans are in the works that
would allow groups of grow-
ers to join with retail licens-
and at measures to strip
abortion rights, loosen gun
laws, and divert public mon-
ey to scholarships for private
school tuition.
Hunt called other law-
makers “trash” and warned
them on the statehouse floor
not to speak to her, adding,
“I don’t like you.”
Cavanaugh called the
body “morally bankrupt”
and said she was looking for-
ward to the time “when I no
longer have to serve with
many of you.”
Some conservative law-
makers lashed back. Sen.
Julie Slama called for Cava-
naugh’s censure over re-
marks comparing the trans
bill to genocide.
Others used racist and
extremist language during
debates over restricting
abortion. Sen. Steve Erd-
man bemoaned that since
the 1973 legalization of abor-
tion, Nebraska’s population
has not grown “except those
foreigners who have moved
here or refugees who have
been placed here … because
we’ve killed 200,000 people.”
Sen. Steve Halloran ar-
gued that the legalization of
abortion in the U.S. had its
roots not in choice for wom-
en, but in a plot to “kill off the
Black race.”
Even moderates and
peacemakers were caught in
the partisan crossfire. Sen.
John Arch, in his first year as
speaker of the Legislature,
repeatedly called for calm
during debate and was heav-
ily criticized by both sides.
Progressives accused him of
favoring fellow Republicans
as he sought to navigate un-
precedented challenges.
Conservatives thrashed him
for refusing to change de-
bate rules mid-session to cut
off the filibuster.
The problem is multilay-
ered, O’Donnell said, start-
ing with national partisan-
ship and big-money cam-
L AT I M E S . C O M
Hans Pennink Associated Press
ees to sell their cannabis at
places other than stores, like
at a farmers market or a fes-
tival.
“We know these cultiva-
tors are worried about how
to sell last year’s harvest as
they decide whether to plant
a cannabis crop in 2023, and
we will continue to support
them as more adult-use dis-
pensaries open to sell their
products,” cannabis office
spokesman Aaron Ghitel-
man said in an email.
On a separate track,
Hochul and the Legislature
approved a new law giving
regulators broader power to
seize weed from the illicit
shops competing with the le-
gal shops.
Though frustrated, far-
mers like Jacobs and Car-
bone are hanging on. Car-
bone has gotten her farm’s
brand, TONIC, into six dis-
pensaries. Jacobs has re-
ceived some intermittent
payments and hopes the far-
mers market policy being
devised will give him a new
avenue to sell his marijuana.
“This all will get worked
out,” Jacobs said. “And I
want to be there when it
does.”
Hill writes for the
Associated Press.
paign funding that has
seeped into state politics. He
also pointed to term limits
enacted in 2006 that keep
state lawmakers from serv-
ing more than eight con-
secutive years. That doesn’t
give lawmakers enough time
to learn how to develop long-
term agendas or negotiate
compromises, he said.
“What we have now is an
uninformed and unenlight-
ened Legislature,” O’Don-
nell said. “Lawmakers used
to get to know each other
and really talk to each other.
That led to floor debate that
used to change votes. But
I’m afraid that’s gone. What
you have now are people who
show up knowing how
they’re going to vote before
they ever even get on the
floor. And that’s not legisla-
ting.”
A notable exception
came when Republican Sen.
Merv Riepe, an 80-year-old
former hospital administra-
tor, changed his mind on a
proposed abortion ban at
about six weeks of preg-
nancy. He had initially
cosigned the bill, but after
deciding the ban was too se-
vere, he abstained from vot-
ing. Without his vote, the bill
didn’t have enough votes to
advance. He later voted in fa-
vor of the 12-week ban that
passed.
In response, he received
threats from antiabortion
supporters who called him
“demonic” and “pure evil.”
Conversely, many who sup-
port abortion rights angrily
rebuked him for supporting
the 12-week ban.
“Sometimes there’s no
way to win in this,” Riepe
said when asked about the
backlash. “I hope we do bet-
ter next year and avoid some
of the anger and drama we
saw this year.”
Beck writes for the
Associated Press.
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Clinton lavished attention, money on California
[Barabak, from A1]
rightward drift of national
Republicans, especially on
issues like guns and abor-
tion. An economy that
scraped bottom under
President George H.W.
Bush, then bounced back
strongly under Clinton.
But the transformation
was also the result of a pur-
poseful White House effort
to remake California and
turn the historically Repub-
lican-leaning state into a
blue bulwark for decades to
come.
California Democrats —
a continent away from the
East Coast power axes —
were used to being ignored
by party leaders, except
when it came time to extract
deposits from the state’s
rich vein of campaign cash.
“They felt no one cared,”
said Bob Mulholland, who
spent decades as a Cali-
fornia Democratic Party
strategist.
That changed the in-
stant Clinton took office.
“All of a sudden, every-
where I went people would
say, ‘I just got a call from the
White House,’ ‘I just got a
letter from the White
House,’ ” said Mulholland,
who flew to Washington to
witness Clinton’s swearing-
in as president.
“There was never a day
after that he forgot about
California.”
::
Before Clinton, the last
Democratic presidential
candidate to carry the state
was Lyndon Johnson, who
won California as part of his
1964 landslide. At the time,
Clinton was a gregarious
18-year-old college student
who collected friends the
way others gather wildflow-
ers.
One of them was Derek
Shearer, a native Califor-
nian whom Clinton met
years later as a Rhodes
scholar at Oxford Uni-
versity. Shearer, a freelance
journalist at the time, went
on to teach at Occidental
College in Los Angeles and
served as Clinton’s host and
guide during regular Cali-
fornia visits.
Clinton loved the state:
the sun, the lifestyle, the
possibility.
In the late 1970s, he be-
came friendly with Mickey
Kantor, a Los Angeles attor-
ney and Democratic Party
powerhouse who knew
Clinton’s wife, Hillary,
through their work with the
Legal Services Corp. during
the Carter administration.
By the time Clinton ran
for president in 1992, he’d
built an extensive network
of California connections —
in politics, business, Holly-
wood — thanks in good part
to the doors opened by
Shearer, Kantor and two
fellow Arkansans, Harry
Thomason and his wife,
Linda Bloodworth-Thom-
ason, who’d moved to Cali-
fornia to pursue a career in
television production.
Kantor became the
national chairman of Clin-
ton’s campaign and was
among those seeing political
opportunity in the state,
despite its history of favor-
ing Republicans. In 1988,
Bush — Reagan’s vice presi-
dent — defeated Democrat
Transgender adults in Florida ‘blindsided’ by new law
A ban on gender-
affirming care for
minors also disrupts
lives of older people.
By Thalia Beaty,
Brendan Farrington
and Hannah
Schoenbaum
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —
Debate surrounding Flori-
da’s new restrictions on gen-
der-affirming care focused
largely on transgender chil-
dren. But a new law that Re-
publican presidential candi-
date and Gov. Ron DeSantis
signed last month also made
it difficult — even impossible
— for many transgender
adults to get treatment.
Eli and Lucas, trans men
who are a couple, followed
the discussions in the
Legislature, where Demo-
crats warned that trans
children would be more
prone to suicide under a ban
on gender-affirming care for
minors, and Republicans re-
sponded with misplaced
tales of mutilated kids. Eli
said he and his partner felt
“blindsided” when they dis-
covered the bill contained
language that would also
PRESIDENT Clinton, surrounded by DWP workers, surveys damage in the San Fernando Valley after the
1994 Northridge quake. He announced millions of dollars in immediate assistance and promised more.
Michael Dukakis, by a less-
than-overwhelming 51% to
48%.
Since then, the economy
had nosedived and Bush
had alienated several key
California constituencies,
among them Black and
Latino voters, environmen-
talists and backers of abor-
tion rights.
Moreover, while Clinton
showed a natural ease with
California and its clamorous
culture, Bush never seemed
to get a grip on the state.
Raised in Connecticut and
rooted in Texas, the patri-
cian Bush came across as a
hapless tourist squinting to
understand the dialect and
comprehend the natives.
His California campaign
was startlingly inept.
The day Bush endorsed
creation of a marine
sanctuary protecting a
quarter of the state’s coast-
line he opted not for a cam-
era-ready appearance by
the sea — waves crashing,
seals barking — but a stop
at a refinery with an oil
tanker as the television
CLINTON answers questions at a 1996 election rally in San Diego. Even before his
first campaign, he’d built an extensive network of California connections.
disrupt their lives.
“There was no communi-
cation. … Nobody was really
talking about it in our cir-
cles,” said Eli, 29.
Like many transgender
adults in Florida, he and Lu-
cas are now facing tough
choices, including whether
to uproot their lives so that
they can continue to access
gender-confirming care.
Clinics are also trying to fig-
ure out how to operate under
regulations that have made
Florida a test case for re-
strictions on adults.
Lucas, 26, lost his access
to treatment when the Or-
lando clinic that prescribed
him hormone replacement
therapy stopped providing
gender-affirming care alto-
gether. The couple also wor-
ries about staying in a state
that this year enacted sev-
eral other bills targeting the
LGBTQ+ community.
“My entire life is here. All
my friends, my family. I just
got a promotion at my job,
which I’m probably not [go-
ing] to be able to keep,” Lu-
cas, who works in a financial
aid office at a college, said.
“I’m losing everything ex-
cept Eli and my pets moving
out of here. So this was not a
decision that I took lightly at
all.”
backdrop. The landmark
decision was offhandedly
announced in a standard-
issue press release.
Still, Clinton needed help
carrying the state in 1992.
He benefited from the pres-
ence of Ross Perot, the
feisty third-party candidate
who spent most of his time
attacking Bush. He got a lift
from the buzz surrounding
two groundbreaking Demo-
cratic women, Dianne Fein-
stein and Barbara Boxer,
running for separate U.S.
Senate seats.
Above all, Clinton capi-
talized on the sour mood of
Californians amid the worst
economic downturn since
World War II, which followed
the collapse of the Soviet
Union and the end of a
decades-long arms race
that fueled the state’s ro-
bust defense and aerospace
industries.
His victory and an end to
Democrats’ prolonged
political drought was, how-
ever, only a start.
“It will continue to be
important to communicate
The Associated Press is
not using Eli’s and Lucas’
last names because they fear
reprisal. Although their
friends and families know
they are trans, most people
who meet them do not.
The new law that bans
gender-affirming care for
minors also mandates that
adult patients seeking trans
healthcare sign an informed
consent form. It also re-
quires a physician to oversee
any healthcare related to
transitioning, and for people
to see that doctor in person.
Those rules have proved
particularly onerous be-
cause many people received
care from nurse practitio-
ners and used telehealth.
The law also made it a crime
to violate the new require-
ments.
Another new law that al-
lows doctors and pharma-
cists to refuse to treat trans-
gender people further limits
their options.
“For trans adults, it’s dev-
astating,” said Kate Steinle,
chief clinical officer at Folx
Health, which provides gen-
der-affirming care to trans
adults through tele-
medicine. Her company de-
cided to open in-person clin-
ics and hire more physicians
licensed in Florida to contin-
your connection with this
state and your concern for
its problems,” a team of
California strategists —
Rick Allen and Los Angeles
attorneys Kim and Bill
Wardlaw — wrote in their
confidential strategy memo
as Clinton prepared to enter
the White House. “Califor-
nians are looking to you to
improve conditions,” espe-
cially the economy.
Failing that, they
warned, “the volatile Cali-
fornia electorate is likely to
swing back to the Republi-
cans.”
::
On Jan. 17, 1994, at 4:31
a.m., a violent shudder tore
through Southern Cali-
fornia.
The Northridge
earthquake, with a magni-
tude of 6.7, killed about 60
people and damaged or
destroyed more than 80,000
structures.
President Clinton ar-
rived days later.
“We have a national
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ue to provide care to patients
who have already enrolled,
even though that represents
a major change to the com-
pany’s business model.
Eli has been seeing a phy-
sician for years and therefore
still has access to care. But
Spektrum Health Inc., the
Orlando clinic that pre-
scribed Lucas hormone re-
placement therapy, has
stopped providing gender-
affirming care.
“There are a lot of people
looking for care that we’re no
longer legally able to pro-
vide,” said Lana Dunn, Spek-
trum Health’s chief op-
erating officer.
Florida has the second-
largest population of trans-
gender adults in the U.S., at
an estimated 94,900 people,
according to the Williams In-
stitute at the UCLA School
of Law. It used state-level,
population-based surveys to
determine its estimates. Not
all transgender people seek
medical interventions.
At least 19 states have en-
acted laws restricting or
banning gender-affirming
medical care for transgender
minors. But restrictions on
adults haven’t been part of
the conversation in most
places. Missouri’s attorney
general tried to impose a rule
M O N DAY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 23
Patrick Downs Los Angeles Times
responsibility” to help lead
the recovery, Clinton said
after gazing at a collapsed
section of the 118 Freeway in
Simi Valley. But Clinton did
more than visit. He an-
nounced millions of dollars
in immediate assistance
and promised more to come.
“This is something we in-
tend to stay with,” he vowed,
“until the job is over.”
It was a formula Clinton
followed throughout his
presidency: Lavish time,
money and attention on
California.
Then make sure every-
body knew it.
“We didn’t just step up on
disaster relief,” said John
Emerson, who ran Clinton’s
1992 campaign in the state
and helped stock his admin-
istration as deputy person-
nel director. “There was a
concerted effort to be pre-
sent and visible every step of
the way.”
Hundreds of Califor-
nians served under Clinton.
Among them Secretary of
State Warren Christopher;
budget director and later
White House Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta; Press Secre-
tary Dee Dee Myers and
chief economic advis-
orLaura D’Andrea Tyson.
Kantor joined the ad-
ministration as U.S. trade
representative and became
Commerce secretary when a
plane crash killed his prede-
cessor, Ron Brown, who’d
been tasked with overseeing
the state’s economic recov-
ery. Tom Epstein, a veteran
of numerous California
campaigns, was installed in
the White House to mind
the political needs of folks
back home.
After years of feeling
overlooked, it was reassur-
ing — and exceedingly help-
ful — for business leaders
and government officials to
call Washington knowing
someone from the state
would be on the other end of
the line.
Some random bureau-
in that state, but it was
pulled back.
Florida is “the proving
ground of what they can get
away with,” Dunn said.
Her organization treats
about 4,000 people — most in
Florida and some out-of-
state telehealth patients,
she said. Although Spek-
trum has bolstered its men-
tal health services since the
law passed, it and other or-
ganizations heavily rely on
nurse practitioners to pro-
vide care.
Dunn estimates that 80%
of trans adults in the state
were getting their health-
care from a nurse practitio-
ner and now have lost access.
“Right now what we’re
seeing in the community is
just chaos,” Dunn said.
The law also contains lan-
guage that she said could
scare off doctors who would
be otherwise willing to treat
trans patients, such as a 20-
year statute of limitations to
sue over care they provide.
As a trans woman herself,
Dunn is grappling with los-
ing her own access to hor-
mones while trying to pro-
vide support to terrified pa-
tients. That has taken “a sig-
nificant emotional toll,” she
said. “Not only am I faced
with this lack of care for my-
A7
crat “might have no idea
who Michael Ovitz is, or
understand the importance
of UCLA to the local econo-
my,” said Emerson, a former
chief deputy L.A. city attor-
ney whom Clinton called his
“secretary of California.”
“I knew Michael Ovitz,”
Emerson said of the one-
time Hollywood super
agent. “He picks up the
phone and says there’s a
problem with the UCLA
hospital system and getting
[Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency] money,
I’m going to be responsive.”
Other states could only
envy California, as the fed-
eral spigots opened up.
Billions in earthquake
relief. Billions in military
spending. Billions to help
the defense industry retool.
Money for a transit link
between the ports of Long
Beach and Los Angeles.
Money to convert a former
Army base into Cal State
Monterey Bay. Money to
treat sewage from Mexico
and clean up San Diego’s
beaches.
Kantor personally nego-
tiated a trade provision
opening the Japanese mar-
ket to California-grown rice.
The tech industry benefited
from relaxed controls on
exporting supercomputer
equipment.
And on.
Panetta, who repre-
sented a large swath of
coastal California in Con-
gress before joining the
Clinton administration,
offers no apology.
“A lot of states are trying
to figure out how they can
get crumbs off the table,” he
said, looking back at the
assiduous care and feeding
of California. “But I think
they also understood the
politics of what [Clinton]
was doing. He was trying to
make sure California, be-
cause it was important to
his reelection, was having its
needs met.”
But it was not strictly
about politics.
At the time, Clinton
wrote in his autobiography,
Southern California consti-
tuted the world’s sixth-
largest economy. So helping
resuscitate the region was
vital to the nation’s overall
recovery.
In all, Clinton visited
California 56 times from
1993, the year he assumed
the presidency, through
2001, the year he left the
White House, according to a
tally kept by his presidential
library. That is far more
than any other state, save
Maryland, home to the
presidential retreat at
Camp David, and New York,
where Clinton settled after
leaving Washington.
The effort paid off hand-
somely.
Clinton easily carried
California on his way to
winning his second term in
an electoral college land-
slide. By the time he left the
White House, the state had
become a Democratic
fortress.
In 2000, Clinton’s vice
president, Al Gore, carried
California by 12 percentage
points. Since then, no
Democratic presidential
candidate has won by less
than double digits.
Republicans long ago
quit trying to compete.
self, but a lot of people within
the community are also fac-
ing the same thing and
they’re reaching out to me
for guidance.”
Lucas, who transitioned
eight years ago, anticipates
running out of hormone
treatments in June. In the
best-case scenario he can
foresee, he will be able to get
a new prescription in Au-
gust.
“It’s just going to be ex-
tremely difficult mentally to
have your body changing in a
way that doesn’t align with
your brain,” Lucas said.
Eli and Lucas have
switched to a month-to-
month lease and tentatively
plan to relocate to Minne-
sota in November. They said
they will leave sooner if they
can afford it and started an
online fundraiser to help.
Moving with their dog and
two cats increases the ex-
pense and difficulty of find-
ing a new place.
“I just never thought it
could happen this way, this
fast and to us,” Eli said.
Associated Press writers
Beaty reported from New
York, Farrington from
Tallahassee and
Schoenbaum from Raleigh,
N.C.
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A PERSON climbs over the border fence from Tijuana into the U.S. last month. Politicians in red states say they want to draw attention to the influx of migrants.
Bonta blames DeSantis for arrival of migrants
[Migrants, from A1]
The 16 migrants from
Venezuela and Colombia
were initially transported by
bus from El Paso to New
Mexico, where they boarded
the flight to Sacramento, of-
ficials said. They were
dropped off at the doorstep
of the Catholic Diocese of
Sacramento on Friday.
Their arrival, for which no
politician or organization
has yet to publicly claim re-
sponsibility, adds fuel to a
controversy over similar
ploys by conservative politi-
cians in Republican-led
states.
They and their support-
ers have said the efforts are
aimed at raising awareness
of the influx of migrants over
the southern border and
bringing the issue to the
doorsteps of authorities in
states led by Democrats. Op-
ponents describe the moves
as cruel political stunts that
use immigrants as pawns
and leave them many miles
from family, resources and
even the courthouses where
they are often expected to
appear to plead their cases
for asylum.
Twitter exec in charge of content YouTube to allow
safety resigns after Musk criticism false election claims
Owner complained
about the handling
of tweets that had
misgendered people.
associated press
SAN FRANCISCO — A
top Twitter executive re-
sponsible for safety and con-
tent moderation has left the
company, her departure
coming soon after owner
Elon Musk publicly com-
plained about the platform’s
handling of posts about
transgender topics.
The departure pointed to
a fresh wave of turmoil
among key officials at Twit-
ter since Musk took over last
year.
Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head
of trust and safety, con-
firmed her resignation in a
pair of tweets late Friday.
She did not say in the mes-
sage why she was leaving,
but her departure came
shortly after Musk criticized
Twitter’s handling of tweets
about a conservative media
company’s documentary
that questions transgender
medical treatment for chil-
dren and teens.
Musk was responding to
complaints by Jeremy Bore-
ing, co-chief executive of the
media company the Daily
Wire. Boreing said in tweets
and retweets of conserva-
tive commentators Thurs-
day that Twitter was sup-
pressing the movie by flag-
ging posts about it as hate
speech and keeping the
movie off lists of trending
topics.
Boreing tweeted that
Twitter canceled a deal to
premiere “What Is a Wom-
S L AT I M E S . C O M
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a
Democrat, said in a state-
ment Saturday that he and
Bonta, also a Democrat, met
on Saturday with more than
12 of the migrants. Newsom
added that his office and the
state Department of Justice
were working together “to in-
vestigate the circumstances
around who paid for the
group’s travel and whether
the individuals orchestrat-
ing this trip misled anyone
with false promises or have
violated any criminal laws,
including kidnapping.”
Bonta’s office is investi-
gating, he confirmed. He
said his office would be “eval-
uating potential criminal or
civil action against those
who transported or ar-
ranged for the transport of
these vulnerable immi-
grants.”
Bonta said Sunday the
migrants — most of them
from Venezuela — told offi-
cials that they were promis-
ed jobs and that someone
would assist them in finding
work. Instead, the group was
dropped off at the Catholic
diocese. When someone at
the diocese opened the door,
ELLA IRWIN quit as Twitter’s head of content moderation after Elon Musk’s
remarks related to a film that questions transgender treatment for minors.
an?” for free on the platform
“because of two instances of
‘misgendering.’” Twitter
rules prohibit intentionally
referring to transgender in-
dividuals with the wrong
gender or name.
“This was a mistake by
many people at Twitter. It is
definitely allowed,” Musk
tweeted back. “Whether or
not you agree with using
someone’s preferred pro-
nouns, not doing so is at
most rude and certainly
breaks no laws.”
Irwin tweeted Friday
that “one or two people no-
ticed” she left the company
the day before, and she
noted speculation about
whether she was fired or
quit.
She teased that she
two men said they would re-
turn but instead drove off,
leaving the group of mi-
grants behind, Bonta said.
“They never intended to
help them find a job but told
them that they would do
that so they could get on the
plane and sign their docu-
ments and be transported to
Sacramento,” Bonta said.
“They completely exploited,
abused and manipulated
these folks who were vulner-
able and were hoping and
dreaming of a job and told
they would be helped finding
that job only to be aban-
doned.”
Bonta said the migrants
are receiving legal aid serv-
ices as some of them have
immigration court dates in
the coming days. Some of
the court dates are as far as
New York and Chicago.
“They’re nowhere near
Sacramento,” he said.
Bonta spoke about one
migrant he met. He said the
man, who is from Venezuela,
played a voicemail from his
9-year-old daughter, who
told her father in Spanish
that she was hungry because
she hadn’t eaten in a day.
would post 24 tweets to ex-
plain her departure.
Then she posted that she
was just kidding about the
long narrative.
“In all seriousness, I did
resign but this has been a
once in a lifetime experience
and I’m so thankful to have
worked with this amazing
team of passionate, creative
and hardworking people.
Will be cheering you all and
Twitter as you go!”
Next to Musk, Irwin had
been the most prominent
voice of the company’s ever-
changing content policies in
recent months.
Twitter has struggled to
bring back advertisers
turned off by Musk’s drastic
changes and loosening of
rules against hate speech
She said that her mother
was sick and that they
needed help.
The man didn’t come to
the U.S. for handouts, Bonta
said, recalling the conversa-
tion. He came for a job so he
could provide for his family
back home, he said.
The situation in Sacra-
mento is playing out against
a backdrop of intense na-
tional debate over how to
handle the influx of migrants
who enter the U.S. by cross-
ing the Mexican border each
year. That debate has come
to a head in response to simi-
lar efforts championed and
supported by Republican
governors such as Greg Ab-
bott of Texas and DeSantis
that have displaced thou-
sands of migrants and gen-
erated widespread contro-
versy in recent years.
In September, Abbott
bused about 100 migrants to
Washington, D.C., where
they were dropped off out-
side the Naval Observatory,
the home of Vice President
Kamala Harris. That same
month, DeSantis — who is
now a top contender for the
GOP presidential nomina-
Jeff Chiu Associated Press
since he bought Twitter for
$44 billion in October. Twit-
ter also has an incoming
CEO, Linda Yaccarino,
known for decades of media
and advertising industry ex-
perience, but she hasn’t
started yet.
Irwin and Twitter didn’t
respond to requests from
the Associated Press for
comment.
Twitter has been in tur-
moil including mass layoffs
and voluntary departures
since the billionaire Tesla
owner bought the San Fran-
cisco company and took it
private.
The company’s head of
trust and safety left shortly
after the takeover, and turn-
over in the top ranks has
continued.
tion — sent a group of mi-
grants to Martha’s Vineyard,
a wealthy liberal haven off
the coast of Massachusetts.
Also last year, eight Venezue-
lan migrants were flown
from Texas to Sacramento.
Activists said that move was
not part of Abbott’s or De-
santis’ efforts.
Newsom has made a
habit of attacking DeSantis
and Abbott over a host of is-
sues that divide the nation,
including immigration,
LGBTQ+ rights, gun con-
trol and abortion. He
launched a political action
committee this year aimed
at supporting Democrats
running in red states. In a vi-
deo announcing the effort,
Newsom said “authoritarian
leaders” are a problem for
the country as images of De-
Santis and Abbott flash
across the screen.
Jaime Soto, bishop of the
Diocese of Sacramento, said
in a statement Saturday that
the diocese is working with
other groups to help the new
arrivals.
“The urgency to respond
was heard by Catholics and
people of goodwill,” he said.
The platform faces
criticism after it
reverses policy on
disproven statements.
associated press
YouTube will stop remov-
ing content that falsely
claims the 2020 election or
other past U.S. presidential
elections were marred by
“widespread fraud, errors or
glitches,” the platform has
announced.
The change is a reversal
for the Google-owned video
service, which said a month
after the 2020 election that it
would start removing new
posts that falsely claimed
widespread voter fraud or
errors changed the outcome.
YouTube said in a blog
post Friday that the up-
dated policy was an attempt
to protect the ability to
“openly debate political ide-
as, even those that are con-
troversial or based on dis-
proven assumptions.”
“In the current environ-
ment, we find that while re-
moving this content does
curb some misinformation,
it could also have the unin-
tended effect of curtailing
political speech without
meaningfully reducing the
risk of violence or other real-
world harm,” the blog post
said.
The updated policy,
which goes into effect im-
mediately, won’t stop
YouTube from taking down
content that tries to deceive
voters in the upcoming 2024
election or other future races
in the U.S. and abroad. The
company said its other exist-
ing rules against election
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“We are thankful to our part-
ner organizations who took
up the holy work of hospital-
ity, dedicating their time and
resources to ensure that ev-
ery migrant did not feel
alone and abandoned.”
Sacramento Mayor Dar-
rell Steinberg called for an
investigation into the latest
incident in a Saturday state-
ment.
“Human trafficking is not
only despicable; it’s a felony.
… Whoever is behind this
must answer the following:
Is there anything more cruel
than using scared human
beings to score cheap politi-
cal points?” he said.
Steinberg’s statement
made clear that the city will
continue to be a welcoming
place for disadvantaged peo-
ple like the 16 migrants who
arrived Friday.
“Sacramento represents
the best of American val-
ues,” he said. “We always wel-
come ‘the tired, the poor and
the huddled masses,’ and we
always will.”
Times staff writer Lila
Seidman contributed to this
report.
misinformation remain un-
changed.
This could prove difficult
to enforce, said John Wihbey,
an associate professor at
Northeastern University
who studies social media
and misinformation.
“It doesn’t take a genius if
you’re on the disinformation
‘we were wronged in 2020’
side to say, ‘Wait a minute,
let’s just claim that voting
just generally is not worth it.
And 2020 is our example,’ ”
he said. “I don’t know how
you disentangle rhetoric
that both refers to past
wrongs and to forward pos-
sibilities. The content mod-
eration team, which is going
to try to do this, is going to tie
themselves in knots trying
to figure out exactly where
that line is.”
The announcement
comes after YouTube and
other major social media
companies, including Twit-
ter and the Meta-owned
Facebook and Instagram,
have come under fire in re-
cent years for not doing
more to combat the stream
of election misinformation
and disinformation that
spreads on their platforms.
The left-leaning media
watchdog group Media Mat-
ters said the policy change is
not a surprise, as it was one
of the “last major social me-
dia platforms” to keep the
policy in place.
“YouTube and the other
platforms that preceded it in
weakening their election
misinformation policies, like
Facebook, have made it
clear that one attempted in-
surrection wasn’t enough.
They’re setting the stage for
an encore,” said its vice pres-
ident, Julie Millican, in a
statement.
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Sticker shock overhauls grocery shopping
Consumers switch
ingredients, stores and
brands as they cope
with rising food costs.
By Carly Olson
and Helen Li
The U.S. is not in a
recession, but the psycholo-
gical weight of that possibil-
ity — combined with the ef-
fects of still-high inflation —
have consumers bracing for
the fallout and strategizing
to save money.
Their first move? For
many shoppers, it’s rethink-
ing how they buy groceries.
Betty Luckett, a pre-
school owner who lives in
downtown Los Angeles, has
started pinching pennies at
the grocery store to keep the
operating costs for her busi-
ness in check.
“Before I didn’t monitor
the prices as much, but my
budget has definitely in-
creased over the past year,”
she said. Luckett, 55, re-
cently raised tuition to ac-
count for rising business ex-
penses and wage increases
for staff.
She shops at warehouse-
style grocer Smart & Final,
where she often can find
what her preschool needs on
sale: snacks like tangerines
and animal crackers,
canned vegetables, and bulk
goods such as paper towels
and gloves.
Consumer packaged
goods have experienced an
average inflation rate of 11%
over the last year, according
to recent data from market
analytics firm NIQ
(NielsenIQ), and many
shoppers have reached a
breaking point.
Some are switching
supermarkets or eschewing
brand-name products that
come with a higher price tag,
while others have reallo-
cated where they spend
their dollars altogether.
Zoey James, 24, a cost-
conscious shopper and city
government employee who
lives in the Hollywood area,
has cut back on some of her
more expensive items, such
as fresh fruit, to keep grocery
costs down.
James has also started
adding more rice to her
meat-centered dishes. “If I
make a stir fry, I use that beef
for like three or four days in-
stead of two,” she said.
New EV names lack traction. Who thought e:Ny1 packs a jolt?
By Kyle Stock
Who named that EV?
Really, who thought the
bZ4X, EQE or e:Ny1 was a
good idea?
Beyond Prius, Tesla’s S-
X-Y: Electric car branding is
weird.
The chance to name a
new car is precious, a billion-
dollar branding exercise
with decades of potential
staying power.
Of the almost 300 vehicle
models in the U.S., roughly a
quarter bear names that
have been around for 20-plus
years — even when the
underlying car has changed.
The Porsche 911 was intro-
duced back in 1965, one year
after Toyota unveiled its
first Corolla. Making its de-
but in 1934, the Chevrolet
Suburban is the oldest
badge in the business.
Over the last few years,
this rite has kicked into over-
drive.
Carmakers are racing to
electrify their product lines
and launching new vehicles
at a pace not seen in dec-
ades. Battery-powered driv-
ing offers a cleaner, quieter
and eventually cheaper way
to travel — an aspirational
trifecta that branding
squads must distill into a
slew of catchy new car
names.
It’s not going great.
Take Toyota, the world’s
largest carmaker. The com-
pany has been perfecting
battery-powered vehicles
since the late 1990s and fi-
nally unveiled its first mass-
market EV in 2022.
Its title? The bZ4X.
The “bZ” stands for “be-
yond zero” emissions; the 4
refers to its four-wheel drive
and X denotes a crossover
shape — all of which is prob-
ably lost on the Camry
crowd.
Not to be outdone,
CONSUMER packaged goods have witnessed an average inflation rate of 11% over the last year, according to
data from a market analytics firm. Above, a shopper selects produce in a Vons grocery in Long Beach in 2020.
James buys most of her gro-
ceries at her local Trader
Joe’s, which is walking dis-
tance from home, and occa-
sionally makes a trip to Pa-
vilions.
Consumers right now are
using “a multipronged ap-
proach to try to make ends
meet,” said Carman Allison,
a vice president at NIQ. Alli-
son worked on a survey
tracking shopping behav-
iors and retail trends in the
first quarter of 2023 and
found that consumers “are
making some discretionary
trade-offs.”
Thirty-five percent of
survey respondents said
they “only buy the es-
sentials” at the grocery
store, a figure up by 3 points
since October. Thirty-one
percent of respondents said
they were buying “less ex-
pensive alternatives” to the
items they typically pur-
chase, and 38% said they
“buy store-brand products”
to keep costs down.
Allison noted that pri-
vate label goods have seen a
gradual uptick in popularity
quarter after quarter, driven
by high inflation categories
such as pet care and dairy.
Private label goods, or
store brands, are products
TOYOTA, which has been perfecting battery-powered vehicles since the late 1990s, finally unveiled its first
mass-market EV in 2022. Its title? The bZ4X, shown at the Philadelphia Auto Show in January.
Honda announced that its
second EV will be known as
the e:Ny1, a gamble on the
appeal of a colon.
Over at Jaguar, a driver
could be forgiven for assum-
ing the carmaker’s electric
option is the E-PACE, but
that model has a gas engine.
The battery-powered Jag is
the I-PACE.
And no one could fault a
Volkswagen fan for confus-
ing the carmaker’s ID.4, an
SUV-shaped EV, with the ID.
Buzz, a recast of the compa-
ny’s famous van.
“Honestly, a lot of these
names are just trying too
hard,” said David Placek,
founder of Lexicon Brand-
ing, which helped name Lu-
BUSINESS
manufactured specifically
for a retailer and sold under
the retailer’s own name.
Most are sold at a lower price
point than a similar product
from a well-known national
brand.
Chedly Louis, a vice pres-
ident at Moody’s Investors
Service, has noted consum-
ers increasingly buying pri-
vate label goods and putting
more of their purchases on
credit cards. “There is a
trade-down with the con-
sumer going on,” Louis said,
“because at the end of the
day, you have to think about
disposable income.”
Many economists project
that a recession will begin
later this year, while other
experts (and politicians)
predict that the economy
will stick a soft landing.
Discount grocery stores
have benefited from the cur-
rent climate, which has
brought in new customers at
many different income levels
trying to trim costs.
Walmart executives said
last month that grocery
sales were up in the first
quarter of 2023, which they
credited in part to an influx
of new, wealthier shoppers
coming to the chain. The
superstore’s first-quarter
cid Group Inc., the Subaru
Outback and the Honda
Ridgeline. “Everyone is kind
of scrambling.”
Placek said a great prod-
uct name needs to check
three boxes: It has to be
memorable, noteworthy and
distinctive within its catego-
ry.
It also helps if the moni-
ker is “what we call ‘proc-
essing fluent,’ ” Placek said.
“When the mind looks at it
and says ‘OK, I can get
that.’ ”
Many new EV names fall
short. They either hew too
closely to tradition to feel
noteworthy or stretch so far
for distinction that they ar-
en’t memorable.
revenue was $152.3 billion,
beating estimates.
Grocery Outlet, the chain
known for discounting
brand-name groceries, saw
a similar trend in the first
quarter.
“Our survey data shows a
higher average income cus-
tomer shopping with us,
which suggests that more
customers are changing be-
haviors,” R.J. Sheedy, the
company’s president and
chief executive, said on an
earnings call last month.
“They’re looking for value.”
Not all experts, however,
think these trends mean
consumers are truly cutting
back.
“We live in an era where
the narrative is constantly
about declining standards of
living, whereas the data con-
tinues to show ongoing real
growth and consumer
spending,” said Christopher
Thornberg, founding part-
ner of Los Angeles-based
consulting firm Beacon
Economics.
For some consumers, the
strategy shift has more to do
with how and where they
spend their dollars. Al-
though increased consumer
spending does not necessar-
ily result in a corresponding
No one’s saying naming a
car is easy, or that doing it
poorly is unique to EVs (see:
the Daihatsu Naked, the
Ford Probe and the Stude-
baker Dictator). A car’s
name may also matter less
to consumers than its price
tag, range, features and aes-
thetic.
But as an exercise in mar-
keting, the raft of clunky EV
names represents a missed
opportunity.
Just look at Tesla: The
company may have failed to
spell out “SEXY” with its
four models as planned —
Model E was trademarked
by Ford six years before Elon
Musk launched his sedan —
but the attempt was as
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Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
surge in purchases, as the
impact of inflation dimin-
ishes spending power, con-
sumers have displayed re-
markable resilience.
In April, retail spending
in the United States re-
bounded after experiencing
a decline for two consecutive
months, despite the chal-
lenges posed by high inter-
est rates and inflationary
pressure.
“A couple years ago,
goods spending was through
the roof, in large part be-
cause services were all
closed,” Thornberg said, ref-
erencing the early years of
the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Now we’re seeing a fero-
cious bounce-back.”
That means Americans
are now spending more on
dining out than groceries. In
April, spending at restau-
rants and bars was up 9.4%
from 12 months earlier, ac-
cording to monthly retail
data from the U.S. Census
Bureau. And restaurant
spending is up around 40%
from four years ago.
Despite traditional
thinking, James says that
eating out can feel nearly
equal in price to cooking at
home if she can split the left-
overs into two or three
Matt Rourke Associated Press
memorable, noteworthy and
distinct as it was juvenile.
In some cases, today’s EV
names also highlight a dis-
connect between R&D and
product planning. Nearly ev-
ery automaker has set an
ambitious timeline to com-
pletely switch to electric ve-
hicles, but that memo may
have been lost on the people
naming the Kia EV6, for ex-
ample, or the GMC Hummer
EV. Those labels will age as
well as “the New York Foot-
ball Giants.”
“They’re just dating
themselves,” Placek said.
“Within five years almost ev-
eryone driving a new car will
be in an EV or a hybrid.”
There are also the names
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meals. She tends to order
from Asian restaurants that
provide generous portions
— it’s hard to split a sand-
wich into two meals, she
says.
One of her favorite Thai
restaurants is a regular on
the rotation. “They give you
this satay plate that’s like a
mountain of rice and a
bunch of chicken satay,” she
said. “I’ll split it into my Tup-
perware containers.”
Other Southern Califor-
nians, too, are using high
grocery bills to justify their
takeout orders. Both take-
out and grocery prices are
climbing as a result of rising
food and labor costs, and the
former may come with a
coupon or can be stretched
into multiple meals.
Isabel Bello, 30, a sales
and operations coordinator,
said that she and her
boyfriend split 50-50 be-
tween cooking and eating
out. Uber Eats has recently
sent her several promotions,
sometimes offering up to
40% off an order, which feels
like a steal in the current
economic climate.
When she does go grocery
shopping, she goes to multi-
ple stores to assemble a
week’s worth of food —
Ralphs or Walmart for pro-
duce and Hawaii Supermar-
ket or H Mart for her Asian
groceries.
“[Ralphs] just has more
of the veggies that I’m look-
ing for,” Bello said while
picking out asparagus with
her boyfriend at a location in
downtown L.A.
Even though preschool
owner Luckett has felt the
pain of rising prices at the
checkout counter, when it
comes to her own shopping,
she’s trying to hold out as
long as possible before tak-
ing major cost-cutting mea-
sures.
She and her husband,
who is vegan, mostly cook at
home — one dinner last
week was black-eyed peas
with rice and fresh string
beans. They eat out once a
week, typically at a sit-down
restaurant.
The health-conscious
couple primarily shop at
Whole Foods for groceries,
since Smart & Final does
not offer the organic fruits
and vegetables they want.
“We pay easily between
$100 and $120 a week,” she
said of her grocery budget. “I
can’t imagine what it’s like to
feed a family of four.”
that metastasize, tacking on
letters or becoming less
clear as variants proliferate.
Audi launched its semi-
nal EV as the e-tron — sen-
sible enough — but now it
has a slew of e-trons, includ-
ing the original and a (very
different) e-tron GT.
Mercedes-Benz made a
similar hash of it: The com-
pany’s EV models include
the EQS, EQA, EQB and
EQE, as well as the EQS
SUV, EQB SUV and EQE
SUV. At the very top end,
Mercedes throws an AMG
into the mix. No one wants to
drive an alphabet salad.
Volvo spinoff Polestar
Automotive Holding UK,
meanwhile, took the iPhone
approach: Its first car (no
longer in production) was
the 1. Now there’s the 2, and 3
is coming soon. Polestar 12 is
going to be bananas.
The best EV names argu-
ably aren’t acronyms or jum-
bles of letters; they’re fresh
and nouny and fun to say.
General Motors Co. took
this route with its Chevrolet
Bolt and Cadillac Lyric.
Hyundai’s Ioniq clicks
nicely. Lucid has its Air,
Fisker its Ocean, and Su-
baru its Solterra.
Then there’s Nissan’s
Ariya, allegedly a tarting up
of the Sanskrit word for no-
ble or admirable. Porsche’s
Taycan is a unique choice
but brings to mind an elusive
jungle beast.
There will be more op-
portunities to improve upon
the current crop of names: In
the next year alone, we’ll see
30 all-new EVs in the U.S., ac-
cording to BloombergNEF
estimates.
Until then, pour one out
for the Toyota team who
pitched Prius, which still has
a nice snap 25 years on. They
must have retired before To-
yota’s bZ4X came along.
Stock writes for Bloomberg.
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Cleaning up old oilfields
could cost $21.5 billion to criminal
Taxpayers shouldn’t get stuck with the bill
here’s a huge problem loom-
T ing as California moves beyond
fossil fuels: How to get its de-
clining oil industry to plug and
remediate tens of thousands of
oil and gas wells that already sit idle or
won’t be producing for much longer.
And unfortunately, it’s looking like the
companies responsible for the wells, tanks
and pipelines won’t end up paying any-
thing close to what it will take to clean up
the mess they leave behind.
All told, it could cost as much as
$21.5 billion to clean and decommission
California’s onshore oil and gas operations,
according to a recent report commissioned
by Carbon Tracker, a financial think tank
that analyzes the effects of the energy tran-
sition. That’s so much money that even if
in-state oil producers were forced to put all
their future profits toward those cleanup
obligations, they would still fall more than
$15 billion short.
It would be pure fantasy to expect Cali-
fornia’s oil industry, whose in-state pro-
duction peaked in the 1980s and has been
declining for years, to voluntarily fulfill all
of its cleanup obligations, because it won’t
even make enough money to pay for it.
Without swift and dramatic changes, much
of the cleanup costs will fall to taxpayers.
That would be a
shameful abroga-
tion of responsibil-
ity by an industry
that has for more
than a century
profited mightily
from extracting
California’s under-
ground deposits
while fueling the
climate crisis, foul-
ing the air and con-
taminating soil
and water. Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times greenhouse
That’s why Cali- PUMPJACKS in the McKittrick oil field. and health-damag-
fornia regulators
and lawmakers need to act quickly to re-
duce the burden to taxpayers and force the
industry to fork over a lot more cleanup
money, while it’s still in a financial position
to do so.
While the oil industry and state regula-
tors dispute some of the numbers in the
Carbon Tracker report, its conclusions
largely reinforce what has been clear for
years: The oil and gas wells that fossil fuel
companies are leaving unplugged and idle
are a multibillion-dollar problem.
The report found that less than 1% of
the amount needed to decommission Cali-
fornia’s oilfields has been set aside in
bonds that can be used by regulators if
companies go out of business or walk away.
And as ProPublica reporter Mark Olalde
wrote, “time is running out to rectify the
funding shortfall.” The report estimates
that $3.65 billion — or 58% of the remaining
proceeds from existing wells — will be gen-
erated during the next two years.
California’s Department of Conserva-
tion Geologic Energy Management Divi-
sion, or CalGEM, said that it shares the
concerns raised in Carbon Tracker’s re-
port, but that its data show more bond
money has been set aside than stated in
the report and that it has been making
progress plugging idle wells using $100 mil-
lion in new state funding.
“We issue far more permits to plug and
abandon wells than any other activity,”
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A TEACHER’S LGBTQ+ Pride flag was found
burned at Saticoy Elementary in North Hollywood.
What anti-gay
slurs did to me
Re “Vandalism latest inci-
dent over Pride at grade
school,” June 1
I’m saddened by the
burning of a transgender
teacher’s Pride flag at Sati-
coy Elementary in North
Hollywood.
I attended Saticoy and
remember it being the first
place I heard the f-word —
the three-letter version and
the six. I would hear other
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EDITORIAL
Whatever safe they actually are; they’re driven not by
facts but by emotion, fear and grisly anec-
dotes. Public policy often gets made in
happened
response to banner headlines and sensa-
tional tweets, and by politicians reading
polls.
What’s more, there’s powerful political
pressure from police and prison guard
unions, rank-and-file prosecutors and
crime victims’ groups whose scare stories
encourage a return to the throw-away-the-
justice
spokesperson Jacob Roper said, “which
keys policies they believe in. On the other
side, progressive reformers can also be
ideologically rigid and driven by emotion,
means existing oil companies are plugging
reform?
more of their own wells than they are
drilling.” Roper said the department is
“still in the process of implementing” a 2019
law that gave it broad authority to increase
the amount of cleanup money oil produc-
ers must set aside, up to $30 million per op-
just like their opponents.
So I’m all for more hard information
about what’s happening, what works and
what doesn’t. Boudin notes that legisla-
tures have a tendency to pass laws but not
to look back a year or two later to analyze
their outcomes. Or they set up pilot pro-
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG
erator. grams and then, bizarrely, don’t study the
Increasing those funds or imposing results.
higher fees on the industry could reduce It seems like only yesterday Here are some things I’d like to know
how much taxpayers will be on the hook for that criminal justice reform (although I don’t mean to suggest they
cleanup, said Dwayne Purvis, the Texas- was in vogue. haven’t been studied):
based petroleum engineering consultant Progressives were being When we divert people from the crimi-
who wrote the report. “But the fundamen- elected as prosecutors. Laws nal justice system to substance abuse
tal situation is upside down. There’s just were passed to relieve prison treatment or mental health care, do they
not enough blood in the turnip.” overcrowding and divert of- clean up their acts or do they reoffend?
That doesn’t mean it’s futile. State regu- fenders from the system who needed treat- When we release more suspects before
lators and lawmakers could be doing a lot ment, not jail time. Sentencing excesses trial, do crime rates rise dramatically or
more by adopting dramatically larger bond from the crack era and the three-strikes insignificantly?
requirements, accelerated deadlines for era were rolled back. The bail system and Do safe consumption sites encourage
plugging wells, and legislation to reduce in- the death penalty were on the defensive. drug use? And if so, how do you weigh that
centives for operators to transfer wells to Then the inevitable backlash came. As against the lives they save by preventing
smaller companies that are more likely to crime rates crept up from their near his- overdoses?
bail on their cleanup obligations. torically low levels, the mood soured and Boudin is a well-known advocate of
Policymakers should also be pursuing conservative tough-on-crime attitudes progressive criminal justice reform poli-
more sweeping measures, such as indus- began to reemerge, clashing with the libe- cies. I asked him whether his data analysis
trywide fees or other mechanisms that ral agenda. would be designed simply to confirm his
would hold more fossil fuel interests ac- Chesa Boudin, the progressive district preconceived notions. He bristled.
countable, including past operators and attorney in San Francisco who was elected “I have my worldview, my lived experi-
major oil companies that may not own the in 2019, was ousted in a recall election in ence and my professional experience, but
wells but have been 2022 after being accused of “coddling” that doesn’t mean we’re going to be out-
posting record criminals. Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. come-oriented in our research,” he said. “I
profits and could George Gascón, another reformer with a want policy choices to be supported by
easily afford to pay supposed “pro-criminal” agenda, narrowly facts, not by the dearth of information we
for the upstream dodged his second recall challenge last have now.”
effects of their year. For my part, I support criminal justice
products. Homelessness and crime became din- reform, but I’m not an ideologue. I believe
Addressing this ing-room discussions in L.A. and San we incarcerate too many people who actu-
problem should be Francisco; violence in the subways preoc- ally need treatment. We make it far too
an urgent environ- cupied New Yorkers. Fentanyl-related difficult for ex-offenders to reenter society.
mental priority be- overdoses led San Francisco to reconsider There are glaring inequities, racial and
cause oil and gas its “sanctuary city” laws. The law that otherwise, in the bail system and the sen-
wells release me- reformed the unfair bail process in New tencing process. We’re too tolerant of
thane, a potent York City four years ago was scaled back inhumane treatment and excessive force.
gas, three times, most recently in April. Police But I also believe dangerous people
departments, once threatened with de- need to be kept off the streets. I think
ing air pollution funding, saw their budgets increased in police should be permitted to do their jobs,
that puts front-line communities, from many cities around the country. as long as they do so fairly and responsibly.
Wilmington to Kern County, at increased In the run-up to the midterm elections I’d welcome more research to help
risk of asthma, preterm births, reductions last fall, crime ranked as the second-most policymakers develop smart, humane,
in lung function and other health prob- important issue for voters, according to effective strategies for fighting crime and
lems. Gallup. rehabilitating offenders.
The California Independent Petroleum The battle is on, and it was against this Boudin is a fascinating figure whose
Assn., an industry trade group, criticized backdrop that I read last week that backstory has been told so often it’s be-
the Carbon Tracker report, saying it over- Boudin — the 42-year-old public defender- come perhaps too familiar. His mother,
estimated the costs by calculating what it turned-prosecutor-turned-private citizen Kathy Boudin, was a member of the radi-
would cost the state to plug wells, which is — has been hired by the UC Berkeley cal Weather Underground and in 1981 took
higher than what it costs the oil industry. School of Law to be the executive director part in a holdup of a Brink’s armored
But it provided no estimate of its own. of a new Criminal Law & Justice Center. truck during which three people died. She
The group said that companies spent The center will do litigation, legislative spent 22 years in prison. His father, David
more than $400 million last year to plug advocacy and public education, presum- Gilbert, spent 40 years in prison for partic-
and remediate 6,500 idle wells, that many ably aimed at reforming our often unfair, ipating in the same crime.
operators have set aside additional funds punitive and inefficient criminal justice That means their son spent most of his
for future remediation and that it’s best to system. youth and young adulthood traipsing in
leave it to individual companies to take But I was particularly pleased to hear, and out of prisons to visit them, even as he
care of their own liabilities. when I called Boudin to talk about the new became a lawyer, a public defender and
But the group at the same time sug- job, that he’s also emphasizing another then a prosecutor. He believes that his
gested tapping public funds, including area: data analysis and research. He says “lived experience” helps him bridge the
more than $4 billion for plugging aban- he’s tired of the public conversation about gap between the real world and what’s
doned wells included in the bipartisan in- crime policy being “devoid of science or being discussed by lawmakers in Sacra-
frastructure law President Biden signed in data or even short-term memory.” mento.
2021, as well as millions in additional state It’s about time. Boudin was recalled from his job as
money available to regulators. The indus- It’s long been a truism that attitudes district attorney by voters who, in my view,
try clearly wants to have it both ways. about crime and punishment are cyclical, didn’t give him enough of a chance. Let’s
We can’t rely on wishful thinking or characterized by pendulum swings of see if he and Berkeley Law’s new center
flimsy assurances from the petroleum in- leniency followed by a desire to crack down can produce useful data and innovative
dustry that it can clean up this mess on its and lock up everybody indefinitely. Public policy recommendations that will stop the
own, because the numbers show otherwise. sentiment mostly depends on whether pendulum and make policing and prose-
Oil companies caused this problem, but it’s crime seems to be rising or falling. cuting more just.
public officials’ job to make sure they can’t But often those mood shifts are based
stick us with the bill. on how safe people feel rather than how @nick_goldberg
LETTERS
shamed. How could they ing diversity is as important Our vehicle emission (with 2 degrees of warming).
know? Did I do something? to educating a young person standards and fuel effi- The poles are warming
Was it written on my face? as developing their critical ciency requirements, which much faster.
After that, even into my 20s, thinking. the Trump and George W. Water will be more valu-
I tried my hardest to act, Do any of these people Bush administrations both able than oil as the glaciers
speak and feel like I fit in, who behave so abhorrently fought, have moved Ameri- melt and water tables are
like I wasn’t gay. realize their own child may ca forward. We are the fifth- depleted. Fertile soil will be
I hope that the school be an LGBTQ+ person? largest economy in the harder to find, and fertilizer
stresses the acceptance and Terry Shenkman world, and car manufactur- runoffs will create more
validity of different kinds of Culver City ers have to contend with dead zones along the coasts.
people and families. If some California standards. Droughts, floods and
parents don’t want their But California still has a wildfires will increase. Rain-
children to hear that, that’s
their right, but I hope all
Get tougher on long way to go to ensure a
livable future. Although our
forests and coral reefs will
be lost, along with their
kids understand that words climate change air quality has improved, biological diversity. The
Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times can hurt and love is love. despite huge population rice-producing Mekong
John Kluge Re “Majority of Californians growth and more vehicles Delta in southern Vietnam
North Hollywood fear worsening weather on the road, our air pollu- will be poisoned by salt-
extremes,” and “ ‘The Earth tion is still the worst in the water intrusion. Equatorial
kids use it many times a day.
At first, I didn’t know
:: is really quite sick now,’ ”
June 1
nation.
We have one planet. Let’s
regions will be too hot for
people to live, forcing a
what it meant, but when I
was told it was “a boy who
One does not need to be
an LGBTQ+ person to be Most Californians are
agree to keep it habitable
and invest in more solu-
tsunami of migration.
Our scary problems will
loves another boy,” I appalled by the abuse di- wise to realize we are in tions, not more pollution. become our children’s and
thought, what’s wrong with rected at this community. trouble, but will we take Lisa Boyle grandchildren’s terrifying
that? Though I didn’t have The people targeting the enough action with policy to Pacific Palisades problems. What we do now
any crushes at the time, I trans teacher at Saticoy are prevent a dangerous future? decides their future.
felt capable even as a fifth- not conservatives; they are Having grown up in the :: Phil Beauchamp
grader of loving another extremists. South, where environmen- Chino Hills
boy. It is tragic that they fail tal policy is not even a bump Your side-by-side arti-
I did get, from the tone to appreciate the measure in the road to prevent the cles are scary, but they only
with which the word was of a teacher is their ability to bulldozing of nature, I am so hint at our predicament. HOW TO WRITE TO US
hurled, that it was a terrible inspire students to learn. I thankful to be an environ- In 40 years there may be Please send letters to
thing. I didn’t want to be was fortunate to have such mental attorney in Cali- 2 billion more people on letters@latimes.com. For
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OP-ED

DeSantis aims to outdo Trump on immigration

The former president’s
pledge to end birthright
citizenship is a new low but
unlikely to be the end.
JEAN GUERRERO
Donald Trump
was the most anti-
immigrant U.S.
president in nearly
100 years. He over-
saw a family sepa-
ration policy at the
border that trau-
matized countless
children and lost track of hun-
dreds of parents; slashed refugee
admissions to record lows; gutted
access to asylum; and much more.
But for some of the most influ-
ential U.S. nativists and white
nationalists — people Republican
presidential candidates have
decided they need to court during
and after the primary season —
Trump’s crackdowns were not
enough. Some see greater poten-
tial in his top rival for the 2024
nomination, Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis.
Can DeSantis successfully
co-opt Trump’s trademark issue?
DeSantis is trying to paint the
MAGA leader as soft on immigra-
tion.
At the end of May, he attacked
Trump as pro-amnesty for his
onetime support of a failed GOP
bill that would have legalized some
immigrants brought here as chil-
dren in exchange for more border
militarization and cuts to legal
immigration. And last weekend,
DeSantis met with families of
victims of the 9/11 terror attacks as
lack legal immigration status.
But restrictionists are skepti-
cal that Trump would follow
through on his promise given his
record of sloppy executive orders
and their chaotic implementation.
Past orders were often blocked by
courts.
“I fear this will be one more
example of him writing up an
executive order and either it fizzles
out or they don’t pursue it with the
seriousness and professionalism it
deserves,” Mark Krikorian, a lead
architect of the 21st century move-
ment to strangle legal and illegal
immigration, told me. He frowns
on Trump’s occasional expres-
sions of support for legal immigra-
tion.
“He’s not even a restrictionist,”
he complained to me, criticizing
Trump’s failure to stop guest
worker and other visa programs.
Krikorian heads the Center for
Immigration Studies, classified as
Josh Funk Associated Press an anti-immigrant hate group by
FLORIDA Gov. Ron DeSantis at a rally in Iowa. He and Presi- the Southern Poverty Law Center
dent Trump are competing for far-right nativists’ support. despite Krikorian’s claims to the
contrary. He prefers DeSantis over
they criticized Trump’s decision to pseudo-intellectuals at Califor- Trump.
host a Saudi-funded golf tourna- nia’s Claremont Institute, such as So do some open white nation-
ment. Trump’s former lawyer John East- alists, who cheer on his policies
On Tuesday, Trump sought to man, a key player in the effort to and rhetoric online and see them
reclaim his position as the No. 1 overturn the 2020 election who as signs that he’s more hostile
anti-immigrant crusader by also wrote an unhinged article toward overall immigration, which
reviving one of the most extreme questioning Vice President Ka- is important for those who fear
ideas explored during his presi- mala Harris’ citizenship (it led to demographic change.
dency: an executive order ending an editors’ apology). DeSantis recently signed Sen-
birthright citizenship. If the Supreme Court ruled in ate Bill 1718, which turned Florida
The proposed order, which he Trump’s favor — not impossible to into the most anti-immigrant
promised to sign his first day in imagine — it would defy more than state in the nation. It makes it a
office if reelected, would face im- a century of legal precedent. And it felony to give undocumented
mediate legal challenges for its would create a shadow population people rides, jobs or shelter; re-
clear violation of the Constitu- of millions of U.S.-born people who quires employers to verify workers’
tion’s 14th Amendment, which could be jailed and deported. In immigration statuses and invali-
guarantees citizenship to every- the eyes of restrictionists, it would dates certain out-of-state driver’s
one born in the U.S. His plan relies all be worth it for a decline in “an- licenses for undocumented peo-
on a tortured reading of the chor babies,” their slur for the ple. DeSantis also banned sanctu-
amendment from U.S.-born children of people who ary cities in his state.
Some of DeSantis’ actions were
on the wish list of Trump’s senior
advisor Stephen Miller, whose
ideas were shaped by Krikorian’s
Center for Immigration Studies
and other groups created by John
Tanton — a well-connected white
supremacist who fathered the
modern nativist movement. But
although Miller did push Trump in
a more hardline direction on over-
all immigration, he wasn’t able to
implement the full Tanton agenda
because of his inexperience and an
uphill battle in a White House with
more moderate voices on the
immigration issue, such as Jared
Kushner.
Miller remains loyal to Trump.
But DeSantis is positioning him-
self as more in line with Miller than
Trump himself, who sometimes
caved to pressure to temper his
harsh positions, such as when he
called off family separations at the
border in response to national
outrage.
Trump’s promise to end birth-
right citizenship seeks to correct
the notion that he’s the less ruth-
less candidate. One shudders to
imagine how DeSantis will try to
one-up Trump’s threat. “Those
two guys are in a white nationalist
arms race,” Chris Newman, legal
director for the National Day
Laborer Organizing Network, told
me.
At the core of the GOP’s ever-
expanding multiverse of scape-
goats are immigrant communities,
who represent a real threat to
white male minority rule. The
GOP has proved it’s just getting
started with persecution of them.
Whether it’s a Trump or DeSantis
White House, itwould be worse
than anything that came before.
@jeanguerre

Why is COVID still killing

so many people in the U.S.?
Many immunocompromised and
older Americans feel abandoned.
That’s a public health failure.
BSIP Universal Images Group
HORMONE THERAPY drugs generally cost less than $100 a month.
By Peter Chin-Hong
who recently got a transplant — vaccination
is safe and effective when timed carefully
around their treatment plans. If these
higher-risk patients are hospitalized with
COVID, early use of antivirals such as
remdesivir with plasma and anti-inflamma-
tion therapy can help them recover.
Overall, the elderly population remains
most vulnerable: Currently more than 90%

With hormones, menopause any immunocompromised of COVID deaths are of people 65 years and

doesn’t have to be miserable M

The government should expand
use of the most common and
affordable therapy for symptoms
such as hot flashes.
By Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
and Sharon Malone
here are an estimated 55 mil-
American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, and many other national
and international organizations agree that
the benefits outweigh the risks.
Hormone therapy also has long-term
health benefits. It prevents osteoporosis,
decreases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, and
treats the genitourinary syndrome of meno-
pause, symptoms of which include painful
sex, urinary urgency and frequent recurrent
urinary tract infections. Other than treating
hot flashes, additional benefits of Veozah, if
any, and the long-term safety profile are un-
stand why.
and older people are still ter-
rified of COVID. As a trans-
plant infectious disease doc-
older. However, given that immunity (as
measured by antibody response) wanes
fastest in that age group, it is likely the un-
tor on the front lines, I under- boosted who remain at highest risk, not the
entire population. And research suggests
In the first five months of 2023, COVID that giving Paxlovid to a greater number of
caused more than 37,000 deaths in the U.S., a eligible patients would reduce deaths.
typical toll from the flu in an entire year. Sci- All of this makes clear that COVID does
entists estimate an annual U.S. COVID not have to be so dire for older individuals if
death rate of at least 100,000, dwarfing other we ensure that more are up to date on boost-
infectious diseases. And the virus continues ers and have access to the full range of ther-
to evolve: The highly transmissible XBB.1.16 apies.
subvariant (Arcturus), currently making up That points to two steps our political and
about 15% of cases nationally, is expected to public health leaders should take: First,
be the dominant strain by summer. Waste- more vigorously promote the recent biva-
water surveillance is also showing an uptick lent boosters, especially to populations that
in the virus in New York need it the most. Only
City and elsewhere. 43% of those 65 and old-
Meanwhile, the fed- er, and 17% of Americans
eral public health total, have received

T lion women in menopause in the

United States today, the major-
ity of whom endure its most de-
bilitating symptoms in silence. It
doesn’t have to be so debilitating, and it
wouldn’t be if we could end the silence and
make even a handful of key policy changes.
Menopause has long been neglected by
the mainstream medical establishment as
well as by lawmakers, employers, even the
media. All have failed to help women naviga-
te this inevitable life stage. New data from
the Mayo Clinic show that the burden ex-
tends far beyond the physical and physio-
logical effects and also has huge economic
consequences, with an estimated $1.8 billion
in lost earnings for menopausal women per
year.
There was a bit of encouraging news last
month: The Food and Drug Administration
approved a new non-hormonal oral drug to
treat vasomotor symptoms of menopause
— better known as hot flashes. As many as
80% of women experience hot flashes, with a
disproportionate effect on Black women, for
whom the symptoms of menopause last
longer and are experienced more intensely.
Among the profound short- and long-term
health consequences of hot flashes are sleep
disruption, mood disturbances, brain fog
and increased risk for cardiovascular dis-
ease.
Those who suffer from hot flashes de-
serve innovation and investment in a wide
array of options, such as this latest market
entry, a pill to be sold under the trade name
Veozah. We are heartened to see the FDA
clear the path for new treatments. But this
move also calls for an urgent caveat — and a
broader call to action.
It is imperative that attempts to pro-
mote sales of Veozah do not pit it against or
present it as a safer, superior option to es-
trogen and estrogen-progestin therapy, also
known as menopause hormone therapy. A
decades-old study misrepresented and
overgeneralized the risks of hormone ther-
apy, creating unfounded fears for an entire
generation.
Simply but emphatically stated: Hor-
mone therapy is not only the most effective
treatment for hot flashes, but also the most
cost-effective one. For symptomatic women
who initiate hormone therapy before age 60
or within 10 years of their last period, the
North American Menopause Society, the
known.
It is true that not everyone is a candidate
for hormone therapy, including those with a
personal history of breast or uterine cancer,
a history of heart attack or stroke, or an in-
creased risk for developing blood clots. But
for millions in need of relief, hormones can
and should be a first-line option.
Correcting the overblown fears of hor-
mone therapy requires an immediate
course correction. We recommend three
concrete reforms as a starting point.
First, the National Institutes of Health
must not only clarify current data and re-
tract its prior warnings, but also design and
begin a new modern initiative that can as-
sess the long-term benefits of hormone
therapy and accurately assess its risks. This
is a move that can be directed and funded by
Congress: Last fall, for the first time, Con-
gress stepped up and introduced the Meno-
pause Research Act of 2022 to initiate this
very process; an updated version of the bill
will be introduced in the near future.
Second, the FDA must end its outdated
requirement to label all estrogen products
with a “black box warning.” That mandate is
based on widely misinterpreted data in old-
er populations who were using systemic es-
trogen. It would be reasonable to remove
the warning from low-dose vaginal estrogen
products.
And third, menopause treatments need
to be accessible and affordable for everyone
— meaning that all private and public
health insurance programs must ensure
coverage. This mandate applies especially
to Veozah, which will cost a hefty $550 for a
30-day supply. (Hormone therapy runs $30
to $90 per month.)
Menopause policy should be about equi-
ty — health, economic, age and gender —
and enabling people to make truly informed
decisions and live their best lives. It requires
robust public discourse, thorough and
transparent research, and a firm political
commitment to prioritize women’s full and
fair representation at all ages and life stages.
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf is the executive
director of NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s
Leadership Network and the author of
“Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for
Menstrual Equity.” Sharon Malone is the
chief medical advisor of the telehealth
company Alloy Women’s Health.
emergency ended last
month, and across the
country the pandemic
has moved to back of
mind. It’s not surprising
that the most vulnera-
ble feel left behind.
these boosters to date.
Second, reduce barriers
to Paxlovid and other
early therapy use. This
includes reeducating
clinicians about the
benefits and dispelling
Yet at the same time, exaggerated fears about
health professionals are Paxlovid rebound
optimistic about to- (symptoms re-emerge
day’s anti-COVID ar- after use of the medi-
senal. Biomedical ad- cation for just a small
vances have revolution- percentage of patients,
ized our ability to and illness can return
thwart serious disease Sam Hodgson San Diego Union-Tribune even for people who
and death from the THE NATIONAL emergency to didn’t take the drug).
virus, even as it mu- tackle the virus ended in May. Providers should help
tates. The bivalent vac- patients, especially
cines are about 70% effective at preventing those at high risk, develop a Paxlovid plan
hospitalization and death, and if taken in so they know how to get it, what drug inter-
the first five days of infection, Paxlovid or actions to watch out for and any alterna-
remdesivir are as much as 90% effective. Pa- tives to Paxlovid they can take.
tients hospitalized in 2023 encounter a fine- In addition, the federal government
tuned litany of antivirals and anti-inflam- should continue to provide funding so that
matory agents. We are at the lowest point in all communities including the uninsured
the pandemic for hospitalizations and have access to testing, vaccines and early
deaths, and the average person being in- therapy. Initiatives to keep improving our
fected with COVID now has mild symptoms. COVID arsenal, such as the $5-billion Proj-
Many of the protections we’ve developed ect NextGen to promote development of
can help most at-risk people. vaccines and therapeutics, must be ex-
So, why are so many people still dying? panded.
And how do we reconcile those numbers Finally, public health leaders need to im-
with the vast improvements in our COVID prove communications — both to combat
tools? misinformation and to make the public
This disparity points to a continued pub- more aware of available resources. For ex-
lic health failure to take full advantage of ample, the Centers for Disease Control and
these tools and to communicate the evolv- Prevention still provides a map of COVID
ing risks in this phase of the pandemic. risk for counties nationwide. During high
COVID never treated all groups equally, and levels of hospitalizations in their communi-
some older people and immunocompro- ty, everyone should wear a well-fitting high-
mised individuals still face the highest risk quality mask. Vulnerable populations
of serious illness. But the calculus is nu- should mask during medium levels and con-
anced, especially in light of treatment ad- sider wearing masks in any crowded indoor
vances that should be used to protect more areas or on public transit.
people. We all need to be sensitive to the needs
To start, the immunosuppressed popu- and fears of those among us who are at risk
lation is diverse. Most of these individuals, of serious illness from COVID. We still have
including patients on immunosuppressive work to do — but there’s less reason than
medications such as corticosteroids and ever that COVID should exist in parallel uni-
biologics, respond well to the COVID vac- verses. Far more people could be getting
cines, which do offer them a strong layer of protection and treatment.
protection. Even for severely immunocom-
promised people — namely a fraction of Peter Chin-Hong is a professor of
those with malignancies or autoimmune medicine and an infectious disease doctor
disorders who take a drug that depletes specializing in immunocompromised
their antibody response, as well as patients patients at UC San Francisco. @PCH_SF
A12 MO N DAY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 23
Will Congress deliver aid for homelessness?
[Earmarks, from A1]
Bass asked every mem-
ber of the House and Senate
who represents Los Angeles
to use one of their allotted 15
annual earmark requests on
a project relating to the
homelessness and housing
crisis that her team had
identified in their district.
The $40 million in requests,
according to Bass’ office,
amounts to crumbs in the
multitrillion-dollar federal
budget.
Next year, though, with
more time and planning,
Bass hopes she can coordi-
nate more requests.
“It’s important for the
city to look for resources
from every level of the public
sector, and this is one
method of bringing re-
sources to the city from the
federal government,” Bass
told The Times.
“I served in Congress for
10 years before we got com-
munity projects, and, unfor-
tunately, I only had two
years’ worth,” Bass said. “I
wish that I had been able to
deliver resources directly to
the district the entire 12
years I was there.”
Nearly $20 million — or
about half the funding that
the L.A. delegation and Cali-
fornia’s senators are re-
questing — would go to aug-
menting Inside Safe — her
signature effort to move un-
housed Angelenos into ho-
tels, motels and other facili-
ties.
“This is a more direct way
to get to the finish line,” said
Sen. Alex Padilla, who, along
with Feinstein, put in the
funding requests for Inside
Safe.
These asks are the first
step in a long process that
will determine what makes it
into the final spending bill
later this year. There are no
guarantees, and even some
reasons to worry.
Still, Bass is hopeful.
Since 2021, California’s con-
gressional delegation —
even some Republicans —
has won earmarks to reno-
vate affordable housing,
build new shelters and fund
a litany of programs to help
homeless people.
“The process was sort of
made more coherent, and
more transparent,” said
Steve Berg, chief policy offi-
cer for the National Alliance
to End Homelessness.
“There’s always some things
that the community really
needs that none of the fed-
eral programs are paying for.
The earmarks can be used to
fill that out.”
Last year, when Demo-
crats controlled Congress,
the final budget included
about $9 billion of earmarks,
with about $775 million go-
ing to California and $1.75 bil-
lion flowing nationwide to
“efforts to prevent home-
lessness, expand affordable
housing, and improve com-
munity infrastructure,” ac-
cording to a U.S. Govern-
ment Accountability Office
report. This year’s budget
includes about $15 billion in
earmarks.
This year, earmark re-
L.A. may look into requiring AC in all rental units
[Cooling, from A1]
motion Wednesday, and it is
expected to come back for
public input.
A 2021 Times investiga-
tion found that 3,900 deaths
were caused by extreme
heat in California from 2010
to 2019. But access to lifesav-
ing cooling devices and the
ability to cover the costs of
electricity during a heat
wave are often out of reach
for low-income and elderly
residents on a fixed income.
As part of the proposed
study, the council asked staff
to determine which build-
ings lack submeters, devices
that allow utility companies
to track power consumption
on a unit-by-unit basis, and
also the difference in costs
between installing wall air
conditioning units versus a
central air system for an en-
tire building.
Currently, air condition-
ers or central air are not re-
quired to ensure a rental
unit is habitable in Califor-
nia, according to the state
building standards code.
The lack of an air condi-
tioner didn’t bother Juliana
Wingate when she and her
husband moved into their
apartment last year near
MacArthur Park. Then in
late August a record-break-
ing heat wave hit and
Wingate felt miserable.
“Our cat spent most of
his time in our bathtub be-
cause it was so much cooler,”
said Wingate, who recalls
feeling lightheaded and nau-
seated during the 10-day
S L AT I M E S . C O M
L.A. IS SEEKING $40 million in congressional earmarks to address the homelessness crisis. Above, an unhoused person in Beverly Hills.
quests are buffeted by twin
challenges and uncertain-
ties.
Republicans, who con-
trol the House and the
budget process, want to re-
duce federal government
spending. And the recently
announced deal to allow the
federal government to con-
tinue borrowing money in-
cludes caps on spending for
domestic programs like the
ones that would fund home-
lessness.
Last fiscal year, spending
on earmarks was capped at
1% of discretionary spend-
ing, and this year, under Re-
publicans, the cap is much
less. Because they’re in the
majority, Republicans are
expected to get a larger pro-
portion of the earmarks
awarded even though their
members put in far fewer re-
quests.
These changes — includ-
ing limiting the scope of
what sort of projects can be
approved — have made it
more challenging to make
the requests, members said.
Connecticut Rep. Rosa
DeLauro, the ranking
Democrat on the House Ap-
propriations Committee,
warned colleagues in a mid-
May letter that earmark re-
quests could be whacked by
as much as 70%.
Despite the uncertainty,
Bass continues getting proj-
ects primed and ready to go
in case the funding is ap-
proved.
A portion of the money
the mayor has gotten former
colleagues to request would
go toward renovations,
funding pilot programs for
KAREN TAPIA cools off her daughter Jessalyn with a fan during a September
2022 heat wave because their Los Angeles home lacked air conditioning.
heat wave, when tempera-
tures topped 100 degrees.
She hasn’t thought about
the lack of a cooling device
this year, but now that it’s
getting warm again she’s
wondering if it would be bet-
ter to just leave their second-
story apartment.
“Clearly, if that’s not pos-
sible, I will bring it up with
our landlord,” Wingate said.
It’s unclear if that would
mean her rent would go up,
but she’s not sure she could
stick it out for another sum-
mer.
“I love that every year just
substance use treatment
and in one instance a
$10-million request from
Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Los
Angeles) to demolish a city-
owned parking structure so
it can be replaced with a sup-
portive housing project.
In the case of Gower
Street Apartments, a $4-
million funding request
came from Rep. Adam B.
Schiff (D-Burbank) — who is
running to replace Feinstein
in a field that includes two
Democratic congressional
colleagues, Reps. Barbara
Lee of Oakland and Katie
Porter of Irvine. In an inter-
view, Schiff said the ear-
marks allow him to have a di-
rect effect on the community
he serves.
His office has sought out
projects that might have a
gap in their funding and help
vulnerable populations.
“My feeling is if I can help
my constituents, I’m going
to do it, and that’s more valu-
able to me than a talking
point,” Schiff said.
Lee has also put in a slew
of requests, including one re-
quest for about $3 million to
be spent on an interim
homeless navigation center
with shelter and housing
units in San Leandro.
She has a history of de-
fending earmarks, even
when it puts her at odds with
her own party’s leader. Dur-
ing his 2011 State of the
Union address, President
Obama said he would veto
any bill containing earmarks
in an effort to “rebuild peo-
ple’s faith in the institution
of government.” Lee disa-
greed with this move and re-
keeps getting hotter,”
Wingate said sarcastically.
California laid the
groundwork for an extreme
heat action plan last year
and earmarked $800 million
to address the issue, but also
saw a proposal to establish a
chief heat officer fail in the
state Assembly.
A statewide warning and
ranking system for extreme
heat events is expected to
launch by 2025, providing
general information to the
public, much like the way
other states respond to hur-
ricanes.
called in an interview send-
ing Obama a letter chiding
the president for doing
something that would pre-
vent members like her from
bringing resources to her
community.
On any number of policy
debates, the top three
Democratic rivals in the
Senate race hold many of the
same views, but here’s a rare
subject where they differ.
Schiff and Lee are all in on
earmarks. Porter is the only
House Democrat who didn’t
submit any requests during
the last Congress.
Her opposition to what
many conservative mem-
bers call “pork” represents
one of the clearest differenc-
es between the Irvine con-
gresswoman, who won in a
hotly contested swing dis-
trict, and her two opponents
who represent safe Demo-
cratic territory.
Porter argues this
method of funding can be a
wellspring of corruption, cit-
ing former Rep. Randy
“Duke” Cunningham (R-
Rancho Sante Fe), who went
to prison for taking millions
in bribes to direct earmarks
to certain projects.
“The folks in the adminis-
trative branch have all the
data on what programs
work best, and where the
money is most needed, and
how best to deliver it,”
Porter said. “I think they are
better positioned and can do
it in a more transparent and
fair way.”
Porter’s opposition put
her in line with many of her
Republican colleagues who
rail against the programs.
Jason Armond Los Angeles Times
But to advocates — such
as housing policy coordina-
tor Jovana Morales with
Leadership Counsel for Jus-
tice and Accountability, a
Central Valley advocacy
group — it feels like the em-
phasis on addressing cli-
mate change and strength-
ening heat waves is often ig-
nored until summer rolls
around and reminds every-
one of the danger.
“I just don’t feel like there
is urgency in the Legisla-
ture,” Morales said. “You
know ... we’ve been working
on this, and people have
Earmarks were banned in
2011 during the apex of the
conservative tea party
movement and after scan-
dals over spending that was
deemed excessive. But since
they returned, more
members of the GOP have
been using them.
Her objection to ear-
marks drew the ire of several
Democratic colleagues who
accused Porter of grand-
standing and opening up
members to criticism from
Republicans, according to
multiple sources who were
granted anonymity to speak
freely about another mem-
ber.
Fellow members were
particularly incensed be-
cause her initial dissent
came in the form of an op-ed
in the Wall Street Journal.
Several members of the Cali-
fornia delegation noted that
when earmarks returned,
there were new restrictions
on what was eligible and
more disclosure require-
ments, as well as a ban on
funds going to for-profit en-
tities.
“I salute the guardrails. I
think they are an improve-
ment. But at the end of the
day,” Porter said, “am I bet-
ter situated than the Army
Corps of Engineers ... to
know where coastal restora-
tion work needs to occur?”
Rep. Brad Sherman’s
eyes bulged when he was
told of his Democratic col-
league’s opposition to these
earmarks. At Bass’ behest,
the longtime San Fernando
Valley congressman put in a
request for $3.8 million to
renovate a 42-unit support-
been advocating for solu-
tions, especially ... in the
home, but it’s just not hap-
pening fast enough.”
Morales’ group last year
supported Assembly Bill
2597, which sought to update
the state’s building code to
set a safe maximum indoor
temperature in new and ex-
isting dwelling units. Units
found without cooling op-
tions would be deemed sub-
standard, according to the
bill, which failed to become
law.
The proposed code up-
date was meant to address
workers who live in sub-
standard housing condi-
tions, where temperatures
often become so hot that
units are unsafe to live in,
Morales said.
But Leadership Counsel
was not focused solely on air
conditioners. It pushed for
improved insulation, in-
creased shade through land-
scaping, heat pumps and
roofs designed to reflect
sunlight. AC units were not
an emphasis because they
generate greenhouse gas
emissions.
“Many of the older build-
ings just don’t have that
cooling mechanism, and so
our bill would have required
to set an indoor maximum
air temperature,” Morales
said.
Older buildings are often
the only units low-income
families can afford, Morales
said, and they would benefit
the most from updates to
the housing code to require
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times
ive housing complex in Can-
oga Park. He also requested
$3 million to help nonprofit
Hope of the Valley buy 30
units of modular housing.
Since earmarks re-
turned, Sherman has ob-
tained about $11 million for
housing projects. Sherman
is unapologetic in the view
that if the federal govern-
ment is going to spend mon-
ey, it should be spent either
in or near his district, and
the Northridge Democrat is
more than happy to have any
federal money Porter for-
goes for her Orange County
district diverted to the San
Fernando Valley.
“Porter won’t use them?
For God’s sakes, that money
should go to the Valley,”
Sherman said. “I think I
know the Valley better than
anybody else here in Wash-
ington.”
Like Sherman and oth-
ers, Rep. Sydney Kamlager
(D-Los Angeles) appreciat-
ed the nudge she got from
Bass — whom she replaced
in Congress and called after
they both took office to talk
about earmarks and home-
lessness.
The mayor asked Kam-
lager to put in a request for
about $1.8 million that would
be used on renovations of a
building in her district that
houses formerly homeless
people. She put in another
request for $2.6 million to
help a synagogue in her dis-
trict build 55 units of subsi-
dized apartments for sen-
iors.
“She called and said, ‘I
need your help,’ ” Kamlager
said.
cooling standards.
City leaders directed staff
to study an update to the
housing code and explore
potential programs to help
low- and middle-income
families pay for the installa-
tion and operation of an AC
unit.
Fred Sutton, senior vice
president of local public af-
fairs for the California
Apartment Assn., said ten-
ants are aware of the ameni-
ties available when they sign
a lease.
Those tenants can and
should approach their land-
lords if they want to have a
cooling device installed in
their units, he said.
But mandating that all
rental units have a cooling
device would push the cost
onto the landlords and the
tenants, Sutton said.
“I heard a lot from the city
about subsidies for tenants
facing extra utility costs,”
Sutton said. “But what cost
would that work mean for
the building and the [land-
lords]?”
The Los Angeles Depart-
ment of Water and Power of-
fers options for low-income
residents through the Cool
LA program it launched last
summer. Those include sub-
sidies to help pay electric
bills during a heat wave, re-
bates to offset costs and
other resources.
The requested report is
expected to be presented to
the City Council’s Housing
and Homelessness Commit-
tee in the next several weeks.

D
CALIFORNIA
Proud as
a peacock
Participants wave the
colors of the pride flag
during the WeHo Pride
Parade on Sunday in
West Hollywood. At
right, Academy Award-
nominated actor Me-
lissa McCarthy flashes
her colors while partak-
ing in the festivities.
Guatemalan voters Jaw-dropping great white shark report
upset after forum
L.A. event drew only
three of 23 candidates
running for president
in their home country.
By Soudi Jiménez
Guatemalans living in
the United States could help
sway their homeland’s poli-
tics when they vote in its
June 25 presidential elec-
tion.
But despite the dias-
pora’s potential clout, only a
few candidates turned out
for a May 5 candidate forum
in Los Angeles. That left
Southern California’s Gua-
temalan community frus-
trated and angry, feelings
that many know all too well
CAPITOL JOURNAL
California proves the case for strict gun laws
Lower firearm death rate shows that restrictions work; in lenient states, the toll is higher
“OVERALL, CALIFORNIA has the strongest gun safety laws in the nation and
has been a trailblazer,” the Giffords Law Center said. Above, a gun shop in Carson.
M O N D AY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 2 3 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A
when it comes to national
politics.
Twenty-three candidates
are vying for the top office of
the profoundly troubled
Central American nation.
They will be chasing the
89,554 registered voters who
reside on U.S. soil. The met-
ropolitan triangle that com-
prises Los Angeles, Long
Beach and Santa Ana is
home to the largest share of
the U.S. Guatemalan dias-
pora, about 230,000 people
out of a total estimated to be
as large as 1.6 million.
But the dismal turnout
for the third presidential fo-
rum — organized by the
Guatemalan Migrant Net-
work and held at the Church
of Scientology’s Celebrity
Centre International in Hol-
[See Guatemala, B5]
Photographs by Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
By Christian Martinez
If you swam off the coast
of Santa Barbara or San Di-
ego recently, chances are you
had company. You just may
not have noticed.
A new study from Cal
State Long Beach found
that juvenile white sharks
are more common at some
California beaches than pre-
viously thought.
Although the news may
conjure up images of Steven
Spielberg’s film “Jaws,” sci-
entists say it should instead
be a reminder of how rare
shark bites are.
“It’s not just about
sharks, it’s about people,”
Christopher Lowe, professor
of marine biology at Cal
State Long Beach and direc-
tor of the school’s Shark
Lab, said in a statement.
“This study may change
Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times
Video shows
inmate’s head
slammed into
wall by deputy
Attack on handcuffed
man appears to be
unprovoked. Photos
show a bloody injury.
By Keri Blakinger
A Los Angeles County
sheriff ’s deputy was caught
on a jail surveillance camera
slamming a handcuffed in-
mate’s head into a concrete
wall at the Men’s Central Jail
with no apparent provoca-
tion.
The newly released 15-
second video was obtained
by the American Civil Liber-
ties Union. Photos taken af-
ter the incident show the un-
identified man covered in
blood with a deep, gaping
head wound roughly 3 inch-
es long and nearly half an
inch wide.
“I just lack the words to
articulate how shocking this
is,” said Corene Kendrick,
deputy director of the
ACLU’s National Prison
Project, which sues troubled
jails and prisons. “To call
that video barbaric is an in-
sult to barbarians. It’s a won-
der that that man isn’t
dead.”
Together, the photos and
video offer a rare glimpse of
the violence meted out by
deputies that has been
documented for decades in-
side the Los Angeles jails.
Though that sort of violence
behind bars is the crux of a
decade-old class-action law-
suit against the county, it
Carlos Gauna Cal State Long Beach
JUVENILE great white sharks are more common
just offshore than previously thought, a study says.
GEORGE SKELTON
in sacramento
Fewer guns plus more gun control add up to
less gun carnage. That’s logical. And it’s a
fact.
California is proof.
So is Mississippi.
We’re a state with arguably the nation’s
strictest gun laws. And we’ve got one of the
lowest rates of gun deaths.
States with lax gun controls have some of the highest
gun death rates. Many are Southern red states. Starting
with Mississippi.
“We must be doing something right,” says Garen Winte-
mute, director of the UC Firearms Violence Research Pro-
gram.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that our gun violence rate
has dropped much more than the rest of the country. My
suspicion is that our robust regulatory system has a lot to
do with it.”
Wintemute is a career researcher, as well as an emer-
gency room doctor who has treated countless gunshot
wounds. He tends to be cautious with his rhetoric.
But not so much the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun
Violence, which doesn’t mince words.
It grades California with an “A” for gun control. “Overall,
[See Skelton, B6]
B
usually remains unseen by
the public as most jail videos
are protected from disclo-
sure.
After reviewing the
footage of the July 2022 beat-
ing and photos of its after-
math, the public defenders’
union said it was both trou-
bling and indicative of the
brutality people face in Los
Angeles jails.
“We continue to be horri-
fied by the violence being
perpetrated against our cli-
ents and community mem-
bers by LASD deputies in
the jails,” said Meredith
Gallen, a member of the
union’s board of directors.
The Los Angeles County
Sheriff ’s Department,
meanwhile, confirmed that
the case is currently under
investigation by the Internal
Criminal Investigations Bu-
reau, which will present its
findings to local prose-
cutors. Once the district at-
torney’s office has decided
whether to prosecute, the
sheriff ’s Internal Affairs Bu-
reau will determine whether
one or both deputies in-
volved in the incident should
be subject to discipline or
termination.
In the meantime, Assist-
ant Sheriff Sergio Aloma —
who oversees the county’s
jails — told The Times in a
text message Saturday that
the two deputies involved
have been relieved of duty
with pay.
“This case is currently
under investigation,” he
said.
[See Video, B2]
people’s perception of the
risk sharks pose to people
that share the ocean with
them.”
During the two-year
study, researchers used
drones to study more than
two dozen beaches up and
down the California coast-
line.
Juvenile white sharks,
those ages 1 to 5, were found
congregating at two spots in
southern Santa Barbara
County and central San Di-
ego County.
At those locations,
sharks and people were
found swimming together
97% of the time, according to
findings released Friday.
“The juvenile white
sharks were often observed
within 50 yards of where the
waves break, putting surfers
and stand-up paddle board-
ers in the closest proximity
[See Sharks, B6]
JFK’s speech at
San Diego State
Kennedy’s graduation
visit in 1963 lifted civil
rights discourse and
helped the campus
boost its stature. B2
Pressure over
insurance fines
Newsom backs off his
promise to use money
to help offset steep
cost of healthcare for
low-income people. B3
Huerta wants
statue removed
Labor leader calls for
sculpture of former
Gov. Pete Wilson to be
expelled from down-
town San Diego. B3
Exide records
will be released
Agency announces it
will publish details of
work done to remove
lead-contaminated
soil near the plant. B5
Lottery ...................... B2
Weather .................... B6
B2 MO N DAY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 23
For JFK and San Diego State, a win-win
Kennedy’s 1963 visit
raised the campus’
stature and aided civil
rights discourse.
By John Wilkens
SAN DIEGO — Sixty
years ago, President Ken-
nedy came to town and got
used by administrators at
San Diego State.
He didn’t mind. He was
using them, too.
The date was June 6, 1963.
The occasion was gradua-
tion, with some 30,000 peo-
ple at the Aztec Bowl. A U.S.
president had never spoken
on campus before. None has
spoken on campus since.
Kennedy had survived
the Cuban Missile Crisis
eight months earlier. He
would not survive an assas-
sin’s bullets in Dallas five
months later.
He was thinking a lot
about civil rights and how
education could be a vehicle
for equality and justice. In
five days, he would give a
televised national address
on the subject, paving the
way for major changes in fed-
eral law that happened after
he was killed.
At San Diego State, he
drew contrasts between
what California spent on ed-
ucation and what Missis-
sippi did. He was trying out
ideas, connecting dots in
ways that might have proved
incendiary if done in the
Deep South.
“No country can possibly
move ahead,” he said, “no
free society can possibly be
sustained, unless it has an
educated citizenry whose
qualities of mind and heart
permit it to take part in the
complicated and increas-
ingly sophisticated deci-
sions that pour not only up-
on the president and upon
the Congress, but upon all
the citizens who exercise the
ultimate power.”
Campus administrators
and faculty members were
thinking about the future,
too — a future in which the
college would be able to ex-
pand its mission by offering
doctoral degrees and by
bringing in research money.
To get their foot in that
door, they hatched a plan to
give the president an honor-
ary PhD, the first ever
awarded by a school in what
was known then as the Cali-
fornia State College system.
(The campus had joined
three years earlier; in 1970, its
name was changed to San
Diego State University.)
Kennedy accepted the
degree happily, drawing
chuckles when he said, “I
want to express a very warm
sense of appreciation for the
honor that you have given to
me today, to be an instant
graduate of this distin-
guished college.”
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY addresses about 30,000 people during commencement at San Diego State’s Aztec
Bowl on June 6, 1963. A U.S. president had not spoken on campus before; none has spoken on campus since.
The Aztec Bowl is no
more, mostly demolished in
1995 to make way for Viejas
Arena. A granite monument
with a plaque commemo-
rates the presidential visit.
But the legacy of that day
endures, according to Seth
Mallios, an SDSU an-
thropology professor and
campus historian.
“It is,” he said, “the most
important event in the insti-
tution’s history.”
Going off script
Kennedy liked the plat-
form of college speeches.
Two weeks before he came to
San Diego, he addressed a
crowd at Vanderbilt Uni-
versity in Nashville and
talked about the obligations
of citizenship and the rule of
law.
Four days after his ad-
dress at San Diego State, he
was at American University
in Washington, D.C., outlin-
ing plans for a treaty with
the Soviet Union to ban nu-
clear arms tests.
In San Diego, he got to
the campus via El Cajon
Boulevard, riding in the
same convertible car that
would take him through
Dealey Plaza on the day he
was shot. Thousands stood
on the sidewalks to see him,
some carrying signs sup-
porting various causes. A
photo of him passing by
Rudford’s Restaurant still
adorns the diner, which is
marking the 60th anniversa-
ry this year with special
events, including a weeklong
“JFK breakfast special.”
At the college, security
wasn’t what it is now. The
university’s archives include
a photo of a woman who got
Deputy seen slamming inmate’s head into wall
[Video, from B1]
The beginning of the
video — dated July 4, 2022 —
shows two deputies casually
talking in a hallway inside
Men’s Central Jail. There’s
Amount no sound, so it’s unclear
of prize(s) what they’re saying, but it
appears they’re waiting for a
$12,140
man to come out of his cell.
$1,618
$104
About seven seconds in, a
$61 cell door on the right side of
$10 the hallway slides open and
$11 a man walks out calmly, his
$2 hands already restrained
$1 behind his back.
One of the deputies grabs
him, and the man seems to
pull away slightly as he tries
to continue walking.
Suddenly, a deputy slams
the man’s head into the con-
Amount crete wall, and both men
of prize(s) tackle him. A third deputy
comes running just as the vi-
$183,748 deo cuts off, so it’s unclear
how long the violence con-
$345
tinued.
$173
$8
ACLU lawyers said the
$9 inmate survived, but that
$5 they did not know his name
$4 or the name of either deputy
involved. The lawyers did
not reveal the source of the
video, which they said is jail
surveillance video that did
not come from the Sheriff ’s
Department directly.
Late Friday, the civil
rights group posted the vi-
deo online, days after re-
leasing a photo of the
wounded man as part of a
flurry of court filings entered
last week in a long-standing
lawsuit over allegations of
persistent overuse of force
against inmates in the Los
Angeles County jails.
That case, known as
Rosas vs. Luna, began in
2012 when inmates filed a
close enough to put her right
hand on the president’s face.
His speech was about the
“importance of education as
the basis for the mainte-
nance of an effective, free so-
ciety,” and he started by
lauding California’s invest-
ment in schools.
“You recognize that a free
society places special bur-
dens upon any free citizen,”
he said. “To govern is to
choose, and the ability to
make those choices wise and
responsible and prudent re-
quires the best of all of us.”
Then he pivoted to talk
about where the investment
in education was lacking,
and asked whether “all
Americans have an equal
chance to develop their in-
tellectual qualities.” His an-
swer was no, because of per-
sistent poverty and racism.
“We must recognize that
segregation in education,
and I mean de facto segre-
gation in the North as well as
the proclaimed segregation
in the South, brings with it
serious handicaps to a large
proportion of the popula-
tion,” he said.
To Mallios, the SDSU his-
torian, “This was a brash
speech. In 1963, civil rights
was not a done deal. Here he
was, making the connection
between education and civil
rights, at a time when that
intersection was where a lot
of the conflict in the South
happened. He’s deliberately
trying to make the case for
democratic ideals.”
Mallios said parts of the
speech went off script from
the prepared remarks han-
ded out to the media before-
hand.
“It was a speech he
DEPUTIES move an inmate in 2019. A 15-second security video showed an L.A.
County sheriff’s deputy slamming an inmate’s head into a concrete wall in 2022.
lawsuit alleging that “de-
grading, cruel and sadistic
deputy attacks on inmates”
had become a common oc-
currence — one that they
said top Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment officials had known
about and failed to address.
Many of the beatings meted
out by deputies, the suit al-
leged, were “far more severe
than the infamous 1991 beat-
ing of Rodney King.”
After three years of legal
wrangling, in 2015 the in-
mates — represented by the
ACLU — and the county
came to an agreement about
specific changes the Sher-
iff ’s Department would
make to reduce the number
of beatings behind bars.
But now, eight years later,
outside experts and ACLU
Special Collections and University Archives, San Diego State University Library
Bob Redding San Diego Union-Tribune
MEMBERS of the Congress of Racial Equality gather
during Kennedy’s motorcade through San Diego.
couldn’t give in the North or
the South,” the professor
said. “He deliberately
chooses the West. California
was that sweet spot.”
The president wasn’t the
only one with an agenda.
Pushing an envelope
Three years before Ken-
nedy came to San Diego,
California legislators
adopted a master plan for
higher education.
It was designed to bring
order to chaos. With more
and more baby boomers
reaching college age, com-
munities across the state
were clamoring for their own
campuses, and those that al-
ready had them were com-
peting for various degrees
and programs.
Named after an assem-
blywoman from Bakersfield
lawyers say the department
has still not fulfilled all the
requirements of the 2015
agreement.
A report written earlier
this year by court-appointed
monitors tasked with mak-
ing sure the jails meet their
end of the agreement offered
stark findings, saying that
the monitors had stopped
seeing any progress.
“It is time for the jail cul-
ture to stop supporting be-
haviors that are forbidden
by policy,” the monitors
wrote.
That’s why the inmates’
lawyers asked the county to
make some changes to its
plan for improvement —
such as creating mandatory
minimum punishments for
deputies who violate certain
who had pushed for better
organization, the Donahoe
Act established a framework
for eligibility in the state’s
various systems — Uni-
versity of California, Califor-
nia State, community col-
leges — and set goals for ac-
cessibility and affordability.
It also detailed what
would happen where. The
University of California
would be the primary re-
search system and award
bachelor’s degrees, master’s
degrees and doctorates. Cal-
ifornia State campuses
would focus on instruction
in the liberal arts and scien-
ces and award bachelor’s
and master’s degrees.
The boundaries on all
that were fuzzy, though, and
San Diego State, led by the
late Henry Janssen, a politi-
cal science professor, de-
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
use-of-force policies and
banning deputies from
punching inmates in the
head unless it’s a situation
that could require deadly
force.
In its own filings, the
county objected to both of
those suggestions.
Creating a stricter policy
against hitting inmates in
the head was an “extreme”
and “unwarranted” suggest-
ion, lawyers for the county
wrote. On top of that, the de-
partment already tightened
its policy last year — and
now the number of incidents
involving deputies punching
inmates in the head is down
to one a month at each of the
three downtown jails, as
compared with two a month
at each facility two years ago.
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cided to push the envelope
by inviting Kennedy to
speak at commencement
and giving him an honorary
Doctor of Laws.
They thought that might
pave the way for the college
to begin offering joint doc-
torates with UC campuses.
And that’s what happened
soon after, when San Diego
State paired with UC San
Diego for PhDs in chemistry.
Other joint doctorates fol-
lowed.
“Kennedy didn’t know all
that, so in a sense he was be-
ing used,” Mallios said. “But
he used the platform for his
own purposes, too. Every-
one’s using everyone else.”
He draws a line connect-
ing Kennedy’s appearance
and SDSU’s ongoing efforts
to join the ranks of the na-
tion’s top public research
schools. Doctoral students
are essential to research
grants, which the school is
increasingly adept at ob-
taining. It received $164.5
million in funding in fiscal
2021, the most of any CSU
campus, and a record for
SDSU.
As an anthropologist,
Mallios cherishes artifacts,
the physical objects that
help tell the story of a time
and place. There aren’t that
many from Kennedy’s visit.
The campus newspaper.
The commencement pro-
gram. A few tickets.
“There’s one thing that
drives me crazy,” he said.
“JFK left his cap and gown
with the university. Officials
here said they gave it to the
chancellor’s office [in Long
Beach]. They don’t have it.
So no cap and gown.
Wouldn’t that have been
something?”
Kennedy was famous for
his hair, and he hated hats,
so he kept the graduation
cap on for only a few sec-
onds, Mallios said. That only
adds to its storytelling
power.
And Mallios has thought
about this particular story a
lot. It came to mind when he
was in Houston on April 1
and he watched the Aztecs
men’s basketball team ad-
vance to the national cham-
pionship game on a last-sec-
ond shot by Lamont Butler.
“Is this,” he wondered,
“going to top Kennedy’s
speech as the most signifi-
cant event in school his-
tory?”
Maybe if the shot had
won the championship, he
decided. Which it didn’t.
(The Aztecs lost the title
game two days later.)
“JFK’s visit is like the cen-
ter of a Venn diagram, with
one circle the national im-
portance of what he’s talk-
ing about and the other the
significance of the honorary
doctorate to SDSU’s future,”
he said.
Wilkens writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
“Notwithstanding each
of these issues, the depart-
ment fully recognizes that
head strikes are potentially
dangerous,” lawyers for the
county wrote. “It has agreed
to take those steps neces-
sary to mitigate the health
effects of head strikes when
they do occur.”
Creating mandatory
minimum punishments,
they said, would be “unfair”
and couldn’t be imposed
without violating collective
bargaining rights.
Plus, the lawyers wrote,
since taking office in Decem-
ber, Sheriff Robert Luna has
already taken steps to in-
crease accountability and
has been working “to ensure
that deputies who engage in
wrongdoing at the jails are
held accountable for their
actions.”
The Rosas case is one of
three major lawsuits involv-
ing the Los Angeles jails, the
oldest of which has been on-
going since the mid-1970s.
That case — which is also be-
ing handled by the ACLU —
is currently focused on
abysmal living conditions in
the Inmate Reception Cen-
ter, where last year lawyers
discovered that severely
mentally ill inmates were
routinely being left chained
to benches and chairs for
days at a time.
A judge ordered the jail to
limit that practice, and
make several other changes
— though this year the
county admitted that jailers
had instead begun tethering
people to gurneys. That case
is now scheduled for a con-
tempt hearing later this
month.
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Allies press Newsom on health insurance fines
Governor backs off
promise to use money
to help offset costs for
low-income residents.
By Angela Hart
SACRAMENTO — When
Gov. Gavin Newsom took of-
fice four years ago, the
Democrat went after Re-
publicans on the national
stage as they sought to gut
the Affordable Care Act. Key
to his ambitious healthcare
agenda: reinstating the fine
on Californians who don’t
have health coverage, which
had been eliminated at the
federal level.
It was a tough sell for a
new governor, and Newsom
needed strong allies among
state Democratic leaders,
who at the time, in 2019,
voiced concern about essen-
tially levying a new tax on
Californians unable to afford
the rising cost of healthcare.
Democrats, who, then as
now, controlled the state
Legislature, ultimately
backed Newsom in ex-
change for a promise: The
state would levy the fine but
use that money to provide fi-
nancial assistance to offset
out-of-pocket costs for Cali-
fornians purchasing health
insurance on the state ex-
change, Covered California.
Newsom, now in his sec-
ond term, has since backed
off that promise. His admin-
istration is holding on to rev-
enue raised from the so-
called individual mandate —
the requirement that people
have health coverage or pay
a fine. And his proposed
budget for the upcoming fis-
cal year beginning July 1,
which is being debated in the
Legislature, funnels the
money to the state’s general
fund.
That is infuriating fellow
Democrats who accuse him
of breaking a promise and
disregarding the millions of
Californians who can’t af-
ford their deductibles and
copays.
California began fining
Labor leader wants Pete Wilson statue ejected
Dolores Huerta joins
San Diego activists in
criticizing ex-governor
as anti-Latino.
By Emily Alvarenga
SAN DIEGO — Commu-
nity advocates calling for the
removal of a downtown stat-
ue of former Gov. Pete Wil-
son have garnered the sup-
port of labor leader Dolores
Huerta.
But the statue’s owners
are insistent that it won’t
budge.
Racial justice and gay
rights groups have been call-
ing for the statue’s removal
since 2020, saying Wilson —
the chief champion of a 1994
ballot measure that denied
undocumented immigrants
access to public education,
healthcare and social serv-
ices — had used his influence
to “demonize and dehuman-
ize” Latino and gay commu-
nities.
The life-size bronze
sculpture of Wilson, a former
San Diego mayor, was re-
moved from Broadway Cir-
cle near Horton Plaza Park
in October 2020 but re-
turned to its original spot
two months later.
Now, Huerta says she’s
supporting the movement.
“He was not very nice to the
Latino community, to put it
mildly,” she said of Wilson.
“He instigated a lot of hatred
against undocumented peo-
ple and against Hispanics in
general.”
Huerta, 93, fought for mi-
grant workers’ rights, organ-
ized farmworkers and co-
founded with Cesar Chavez
the union that would be-
come United Farm Workers
of America.
Enrique Morones, who
founded Gente Unida, the
human rights border coali-
tion spearheading the re-
moval effort, has been call-
ing for the statue’s removal
before the City Council since
2007.
Now, Gente Unida is call-
ing on Council President
Sean Elo-Rivera and Coun-
cilmember Vivian Moreno to
draft a resolution to remove
the statue. “Wilson’s values
no longer represent our
the uninsured in 2020, rais-
ing an estimated $1.1 billion
over the first three years —
and the Newsom adminis-
tration projects it will bring
in more than $700 million
more over the next two
years, bringing the proj-
ected five-year total to
$1.8 billion, according to the
state Department of Fi-
nance. Democratic leaders
said Newsom’s tactic of
holding back the money
for the general fund is a
“rip-off.”
“Money from the man-
date should stay in health-
care,” Senate President Pro
Tem Toni Atkins told KFF
Health News, arguing the
state should be distributing
money now to help people af-
ford health coverage. “I don’t
know what we’re waiting for.
We’ve got to figure out a way
to make healthcare more ac-
cessible, and there’s no
question that the cost of
health insurance is a barri-
er.”
Democratic lawmakers
are expected to continue
ratcheting up pressure on
Newsom in hopes of reach-
ing a deal by their June 15
deadline to pass a budget
bill. “We’ve always felt that
the money is meant to bring
insurance costs down,” said
Assemblymember Phil Ting
(D-San Francisco), chair of
the Budget Committee.
Newsom in 2019 stumped
for the individual mandate
amid concerns over rising in-
surance premiums, vowing
to reduce Covered California
consumer healthcare costs
while setting himself apart
from then-President
Trump, who was attacking
the insurance mandate as
unfair. Congressional Re-
publicans had gutted the
federal penalty — part of the
Affordable Care Act — in
2017. Newsom argued it
would still work in California
to lower healthcare costs,
and to help him achieve his
goal of universal healthcare,
the centerpiece of his ambi-
tious healthcare agenda.
Newsom now argues that
federal health insurance
subsidies that offset the cost
OPPONENTS of the Pete Wilson statue in San Diego have focused on his support
of a 1994 ballot measure that sought to cut state services to undocumented people.
great county,” it says in a
news release, and the statu-
e’s removal is “long over-
due.”
However, the statue is
owned by the nonprofit Hor-
ton Walk and sits on private
property. The city was not
involved in its removal in
2020 and has no say in
whether to remove it now.
Wilson did not answer
the San Diego Union-Trib-
une’s request for comment.
Steve Williams, president
of Horton Walk, said in 2020
that the statue had been re-
moved in response to con-
cerns for its safety, calling it
“a symbol of all that is great
about San Diego and its un-
limited future.”
“The statue is going to
stay,” Williams said in a re-
cent phone call, calling Wil-
son the best governor and
mayor the state and city
have had.
Williams lauded Wilson’s
efforts as governor to bal-
ance the state budget and as
mayor to redevelop down-
town, which he says built
San Diego’s tax base to what
it is today.
Gustavo Portela, the
city’s spokesperson at the
time, told the Union-Trib-
une in 2020 that then-Mayor
CITY & STATE
of monthly premiums are
sufficient. And, in the face of
a projected $32-billion state
budget deficit, Newsom says
California cannot afford to
spend the money to further
reduce out-of-pocket costs.
He argues spending the
money to slash deductibles,
for instance, would be
“unsustainable.” His pro-
posed budget would instead
keep the money for the
state’s general fund, to be
used for anything California
wants to spend it on.
But healthcare advo-
cates who lobbied in favor of
the fine, as well as many
Democratic lawmakers, say
the funds could be lifesaving
and should be distributed
now.
“The individual mandate
was not intended to create
funds for other government
programs outside of health-
care,” said Assemblymem-
ber Jim Wood (D-Healds-
burg), chair of the Assembly
Health Committee, at a
heated budget hearing this
spring. “The clear intent of
the Legislature was that this
money was meant to go to af-
fordability.”
Wood said he might have
rejected Newsom’s plan had
he known the revenue it gen-
erated would be deposited
directly into the general
fund. “I don’t think I would
have supported it,” he said.
“It just feels like a violation of
what we thought we were do-
ing.”
Soaring out-of-pocket
healthcare costs, including
for insurance premiums and
deductibles, are leading
people to forgo healthcare.
In California, a staggering
52% of residents report hav-
ing skipped or delayed
treatment in the last year for
financial reasons, according
to a recent survey by the
nonprofit California Health
Care Foundation.
Diana Douglas, a lobbyist
with Health Access Califor-
nia, which was part of the co-
alition that backed the
state’s coverage mandate in
2019, said Newsom must rec-
ognize soaring costs and
spend the money now on af-
Meg McLaughlin San Diego Union-Tribune
Kevin Faulconer “was disap-
pointed to hear of the remov-
al of the Pete Wilson statue
and believes it should still be
there today.”
In recent weeks, Mayor
Todd Gloria’s office did not
respond to requests for com-
ment on the renewed remov-
al effort.
“Pete Wilson’s anti-immi-
grant, anti-Latino legacy is a
stain on San Diego and Cali-
fornia’s history,” Elo-Rivera
told the Union-Tribune. “I,
like many others, [am] of-
fended every time I walk
past the statue of him and
would prefer it be moved.
However, as a technical mat-
ter, the statue remains on
private property, and the
city does not have the au-
thority to remove it from its
current location.”
Sean Walsh, Wilson’s cur-
rent law partner and former
chief of staff, defended Wil-
son and the statue.
“There’s no … man or
woman who’s done more for
the city and county of San
Diego than Pete Wilson,” he
said.
Walsh denied that Wilson
was anti-gay or anti-Latino.
“I would argue that Pete Wil-
son has been absolutely
critical to the influence and
GOV. NEWSOM in front of refrigerators filled with
insulin at Kaiser Permanente in Downey in March.
fordability assistance. “This
penalty money should be
used to help Californians af-
ford coverage and care.”
Health insurance plans
offered by Covered Califor-
nia are continuing to get
more expensive. Deduct-
ibles for a mid-tier insurance
plan, for example, will jump
to $5,400 next year, accord-
ing to Covered California, up
from $4,750 this year and
$3,700 two years ago.
And even many Califor-
nians who are purchasing
coverage are putting off
treatment in the face of high
costs. A survey by Covered
California in 2022 found that
48% of its consumers de-
layed important medical
care due to cost.
Newsom this spring
dodged a question by KFF
Health News about the criti-
cism he is facing over his
push to retain the mandate
money, saying simply he’s
“proud” to have established
the state coverage mandate
and noting that federal pre-
mium subsidies are avail-
able for Californians pur-
chasing coverage via Cov-
ered California. His admin-
istration defended the push
to funnel money into the
general fund, saying revenue
would be repaid to a special
health fund and be available
to use on healthcare eventu-
ally, if the federal govern-
ment cuts back existing pre-
rise of the Latino political
power in California.”
Wilson was mayor of San
Diego from 1971 to 1983, rep-
resented California in the
U.S. Senate from 1983 to 1991
and served as governor from
1991 to 1999.
To many critics, his lega-
cy is defined by his support
in 1994 of Proposition 187,
which sought to cut off state
services to undocumented
people. The voter-approved
ballot measure would even-
tually be ruled unconstitu-
tional.
During his reelection
campaign for governor that
year, he became a champion
for the measure.
He released a controver-
sial ad on illegal immigra-
tion that featured night-
camera footage of people
running through the San
Ysidro border checkpoint as
a gravelly voice narrated:
“They keep coming. Two
million illegal immigrants in
California. The federal gov-
ernment won’t stop them,
yet requires us to pay billions
to take care of them.”
Walsh said Wilson simply
wanted to enforce immigra-
tion laws and supported leg-
islation to boost legal immi-
gration.
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Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
mium subsidies. Adminis-
tration officials argue that
Newsom is essentially bor-
rowing the money and say-
ing it’ll be repaid later —
though lawmakers have ex-
pressed concern that he’ll
never make good on that
promise.
Critics and some Demo-
cratic lawmakers say hold-
ing back the money is a dou-
ble whammy for low- and
middle-income residents
who are struggling to pay for
coverage, and argue that it
amounts to a tax on the
poor. “It feels like we’re try-
ing to save it on the backs of
our low-income communi-
ties,” said Democratic state
Sen. Caroline Menjivar, who
represents the San Fer-
nando Valley.
Most of those paying the
fine are low- and middle-in-
come Californians who earn
at or under 400% of the fed-
eral poverty line, which is
$58,320 for an individual and
$120,000 for a family of four,
according to the latest data
available from the state
Franchise Tax Board.
Democratic lawmakers
this year are backing an al-
ternative proposal, champi-
oned by Health Access Cali-
fornia, to spend revenue
from fining uninsured resi-
dents on increasing health
insurance subsidies for low-
and middle-income people.
They would be making good
“People want to attack
him because he has a belief
that laws of this country, this
state and this city need to be
enforced,” Walsh said.
In recent years, Wilson
has defended his support of
Proposition 187, saying he
would support it again in a
2017 interview with The
Times and continuing to de-
fend it in 2019, saying his
message to the federal gov-
ernment had been that it
needed to take illegal immi-
gration seriously. “What
you’re going to find out is if
you don’t do a better job of
controlling the border, it is
gonna be all over the coun-
try,” he recalled saying at the
time.
Wilson went on to argue
that his 1991 decision to take
away legislative redistrict-
ing power from the Califor-
nia Legislature allowed Lat-
inos to build greater political
influence.
He also said in 2020 he
supported the Trump ad-
ministration’s approach on
immigration, singling out
building the border wall and
pushing for what he called a
merit-based immigration
system rather than one
focused on reuniting fam-
ilies.
Yet Huerta says that
more than 30 years later, it’s
clear Wilson’s policies did
more harm than good.
Other activists agree.
“The message he created
about Latinos that contin-
ues to this day — he is the
grandfather of that,” said Ri-
cardo Flores, executive di-
rector at Local Initiatives
Support Corporation of San
Diego, one of the organiza-
tions in support of the statu-
e’s removal.
Flores noted that the
statue sits in Horton Plaza’s
Walk of Fame.
“This is a completely in-
appropriate statue — it al-
ways was and still is,” he
said.
Huerta says Wilson’s
statue is symbolic not of his
legacy but of anti-Latino dis-
crimination.
“This racism still exists,”
she said. “We’re trying to
undo and overcome and get
rid of it.”
Alvarenga writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
B3
on a deal advocates secured
with state Democratic law-
makers last year to reduce or
eliminate out-of-pocket
costs in Covered California
and scrap deductibles en-
tirely for a mid-tier plan.
“We need to make sure
people not only have health
coverage, but that they can
also afford to actually use it,”
said Ronald Coleman
Baeza, a healthcare lobbyist
with the California Pan-Eth-
nic Health Network.
Although Newsom and
his Democratic allies have
passed major expansions in
coverage, the state does not
have universal healthcare.
Experts say more than 2.5
million Californians remain
uninsured, including un-
authorized immigrants who
earn too much to qualify for
Medi-Cal, and lawmakers
are growing increasingly agi-
tated that not all residents
who are insured can afford to
use their coverage.
“There was a clear com-
mitment that these dollars
were going to be used to
bring down healthcare
costs, and we haven’t done
it,” said Assemblymember
Pilar Schiavo, a Democrat
representing the Santa
Clarita Valley, who intro-
duced a bill that would re-
quire any revenue raised
from the individual mandate
be permanently set aside for
healthcare. Though it died
this year, it can be revived
next year, and advocates say
they will continue pressing
Newsom to distribute the
existing money to Covered
California consumers.
“We need to keep our
promises,” Schiavo said. “If
you have insurance that you
can’t afford to use, or you’re
afraid to go see the doctor
because of how high that bill
might be, then you don’t
truly have access or uni-
versal coverage.”
This article was produced
by KFF Health News,
formerly known as Kaiser
Health News, a national
newsroom that produces
in-depth journalism about
health issues.
Crews make
progress on
Antelope
Valley fire
By Libor Jany
Los Angeles County fire
crews on Sunday evening
stopped forward progress of
a fast-moving wildfire in the
Antelope Valley that had
consumed nearly 1,600 acres,
according to authorities and
news reports.
The first fire crews were
dispatched around 1:45 p.m.
to battle the blaze, dubbed
the Danny fire, centered at
West Avenue D and North
130th Street — just outside
Lancaster — according to a
report by KTLA-TV. Efforts
to contain its spread were
complicated by high winds.
In a tweet at about 3:40
p.m., the Los Angeles Fire
Department said it had dis-
patched one of its helicop-
ters to help in the contain-
ment efforts — one of nu-
merous agencies to send air-
craft. Videos posted to a
Facebook page devoted to
Antelope Valley showed heli-
copters dropping fire retard-
ant on flames as thick smoke
billowed into the air.
A message left for an on-
duty L.A. County Fire De-
partment spokesperson
wasn’t immediately re-
turned Sunday afternoon.
KTLA reported that
wind gusts of more than 20
mph were fanning the
flames north toward Kern
County.
The National Weather
Service said in an alert that
it expected gusty winds in
the area Sunday evening,
blowing in a south-south-
west direction. Even with a
“cooling and moistening
trend” toward the middle of
the week, the forecast
agency said that “dry condi-
tions are likely to persist
through at least Tuesday.”
“There is a slight chance
of afternoon and evening
showers and thunderstorms
... between Monday and
Wednesday,” the alert read.
“If any showers and
thunderstorms do approach
or come near the burn area,
gusty and erratic outflow
winds are possible.”
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165 firearms are seized in San Diego; half are ‘ghost’ guns
By Alex Riggins
SAN DIEGO — A three-
month operation led by fed-
eral law enforcement agents
and the San Diego Police De-
partment resulted in the
seizure of 165 firearms, in-
cluding 82 “ghost guns” that
have no serial number and
are suspected of being pri-
vately made, authorities an-
nounced last week.
The campaign — which
lasted from Feb. 1 to May 1
and was led by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives — has re-
sulted in the prosecution of
at least 29 people, some sus-
pected of unlawfully manu-
facturing, selling or possess-
ing firearms, and others sus-
pected of committing re-
lated drug offenses, officials
said Wednesday at a news
conference.
About two-thirds of
those defendants are being
prosecuted in U.S. District
Court, mostly on firearms
charges, while the others
were charged with drug of-
fenses in San Diego County
Superior Court, authorities
said.
“Guns, drugs and vi-
olence go hand in hand,” U.S.
Atty. Randy Grossman told
reporters.
About half of the seized
weapons and related items
were displayed on tables
nearby, including short-bar-
reled rifles, silencers and
handguns modified with
“Glock switches” to make
them fully automatic.
Grossman said the fire-
arms seized “were illegally
possessed, used in an al-
leged crime or found at a
crime scene.”
Ghost guns, which are
often built from prepack-
aged parts bought online,
are a concern for law en-
forcement because they are
difficult to track due to their
lack of a serial number.
According to the U.S. at-
torney’s office, about one-
quarter of the guns that San
Diego police recovered at
crime scenes in 2021 were
ghost guns. San Diego
County law enforcement
agencies saw a 401% increase
in ghost-gun recoveries be-
tween 2019 and 2021, the of-
fice added.
For now, such weapons
remain illegal, though 2nd
Amendment groups have
launched legal challenges in
San Diego and Nevada
against laws that ban self-
built firearms and their pre-
cursor parts.
Among the weapons on
display Wednesday were
those that an undercover
ATF agent allegedly pur-
chased from Marine Lance
Cpl. Christian Ferrari.
The Camp Pendleton-
based Marine was charged
last month in federal court
in San Diego with three
counts of dealing firearms
without a license and two
counts of possession of un-
Alex Riggins San Diego Union-Tribune
FEDERAL AGENT Jose Medina, right, speaks about
the three-month operation Wednesday in San Diego.
registered firearms. He is
suspected of selling 12 AR-15-
style ghost guns and 10
short-barreled rifles.
Grossman also high-
lighted the case of another
defendant charged with as-
saulting a federal officer and
other gun-related offenses.
According to court records
agent. But when the two had
almost completed the sale in
the back seat of a car, the
man allegedly prepared the
pistol to fire and pushed it
against the agent’s rib cage.
“Get the [expletive] out of
the car, dog, before I smoke
you,” the man allegedly
threatened the agent before
stealing the money.
Jose Medina, one of the
assistant special agents in
charge of the ATF’s Los An-
geles field office, which cov-
ers San Diego, said most
sales of illegal firearms hap-
pen via online advertising,
typically over social media.
Medina said agents used
those postings, plus intelli-
in his case, the man is sus- gence gathered from police
pected of robbing an under- reports and other sources,
cover agent at gunpoint in to guide their investigations
the parking lot of a Walmart and identify what Grossman
store. had described as “historical
Prosecutors allege the hot spots in San Diego for
man agreed to sell a hand- ghost gun seizures.”
gun that had been illegally
modified to become fully Riggins writes for the San
automatic to an undercover Diego Union-Tribune.

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SANTA CLARA, CA
On March 27, 2023 (the "Closing Date"), the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency closed SILICON VALLEY BRIDGE BANK, N.A., Santa Clara, CA (the
"Failed Institution") and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the
“FDIC”) as Receiver (the “Receiver”) to handle all matters relating to the Failed
Institution.
TO THE CREDITORS OF THE FAILED INSTITUTION
All creditors having claims against the Failed Institution must submit their claims
in writing, together with proof of the claims, to the Receiver on or before July 10,
2023 (the "Claims Bar Date"). You may submit your proof of claim form via our
interactive FDIC Claims Portal at https://resolutions.fdic.gov/claimsportal/s/, the
FDIC website at https://www.fdic.gov/resources/forms/deposit-claims-and-asset-
sales/index.html, or by calling 972-761-8677.
Claims may be submitted through the FDIC Claims Portal, or mailed to the following
address:
FDIC as Receiver of
Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A.
600 North Pearl Street, Suite 700, Dallas, TX 75201
Attention: Claim Agent 10542
Under federal law 12 U.S.C. Section 1821(d)(5)(C), failure to file a claim on or
before the Claims Bar Date will result in the Receiver disallowing the claim.
The disallowance is final.
NOTE TO CLASS CLAIMANTS: By law, the Receiver will not accept a claim filed
on behalf of a proposed class of individuals or entities or a class of individuals or
entities certified by a court. EACH individual or entity must file a separate claim
with the Receiver.
TO THE DEPOSITORS OF THE FAILED INSTITUTION
The FDIC, which insures your deposits in its corporate capacity, arranged for the
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Failed Institution to another insured depository institution, First–Citizens Bank
& Trust Company, Raleigh, NC (the "New Institution"). This arrangement should
minimize any inconvenience from the closing of the Failed Institution.
All deposits were fully insured and transferred to First–Citizens Bank & Trust
Company, Raleigh, NC. If you disagree with the FDIC’s determination of your
insurance coverage as represented by the account(s) made available at the New
Institution, you may request a review of the FDIC’s determination in the United
States District Court where the Failed Institution was located. You must request
this review no later than 60 days after the date on which your deposits became
available to you at First–Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Raleigh, NC. Requesting
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to claim ownership of your Deposits. Under federal law (Unclaimed Deposits
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Santa Ana, California 92701 or renegotiate the terms of your certificate of deposit account(s).
The name, address, and telephone number of 3. Provide the New Institution with a completed change of address form.
plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an at- The name, address, and telephone number of 4. Write to the New Institution at the address below and ask that your account(s)
torney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an at-
de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del torney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero remain active. In your letter, include the type of the account(s): checking,
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State’s Unclaimed Property Division, according to your address listed with the
HOW TO PLACE AN AD Sherri R. Carter Clerk David H. Yamasaki Clerk
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Failed Institution. If your address is outside of the United States, the FDIC will
(Secretario) deliver your deposits to the State in which the Failed Institution had its main office.
G. Villarreal Deputy A. Van Arkel Deputy
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sales/index.html, or by calling 972-761-8677.
Claims may be submitted through the FDIC Claims Portal, or mailed RACYR
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FDIC as Receiver of
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Under federal law 12 U.S.C. Section 1821(d)(5)(C), failure to file
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Receiver disallowing the claim. The disallowance is final.
NOTE TO CLASS CLAIMANTS: By law, the Receiver will not accept
a claim filed on behalf of a proposed class of individuals or entities
or a class of individuals or entities certified by a court. EACH individual LYWLOE
or entity must file a separate claim with the Receiver.
TO THE DEPOSITORS OF SILICON VALLEY BANK
Now arrange the circled letters
On March 10, 2023, the FDIC, which insures your deposits in its ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC to form the surprise answer, as
corporate capacity, arranged for the transfer of all deposits All Rights Reserved. suggested by the above cartoon.
("Deposits") - including the uninsured amounts – to SILICON
VALLEY BRIDGE BANK, N.A. On March 27, 2023, the Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency closed SILICON VALLEY (Answers tomorrow)
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cates, the California Depart-
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Control has announced that
it will publish detailed re-
Expatriate voters hear from 3 Guatemalan candidates
[Guatemala, from B1]
lywood — left many local
Guatemalans doubtful
about the integrity of the im-
migrant voting process,
which already has been
beset by allegations of offi-
cial mishandling and techni-
cal mishaps.
In his opening remarks at
the forum, Walter Batres,
president of the Guate-
malan Migrant Network,
praised the three candidates
who showed up, in language
that jabbed at the 11 other in-
vited aspirants who opted
out.
“You did not get off the
plane, you did not make ex-
cuses, you are complying
with an invitation that the
migrants made to you,” Ba-
tres told the three participa-
nts, prompting loud ap-
plause from the roughly 200
people who packed an audi-
torium.
“That shows that you do
have a visa,” Batres said to a
chorus of laughter.
The three who came were
Amílcar Pop of the Winaq
URNG Party, Bernardo Aré-
valo of Movimiento Semilla
and Edmond Mulet of the
Cabal party. Of those, only
Mulet reached double digits
in a May 2 poll, with 10.1%.
Among the no-shows
were Carlos Pineda (Citizen
Prosperity), a right-wing
businessman who led the
poll with 23.1% but whose
candidacy recently was
barred by the Constitutional
Court over alleged violations
of electoral law; and Zury
Ríos (Valor-Unionista),
daughter of the late right-
wing dictator and evangelist
Efraín Ríos Montt, a former
military man and briefly de
facto president whose ten-
ure coincided with one of the
most violent periods of Gua-
temala’s 35-year, genocidal
civil war that ended in 1996
with more than 200,000 peo-
ple dead and 1 million dis-
placed.
For decades, Guate-
malans living in the U.S.
have helped shore up their
ancestral nation’s revenue
stream by sending back re-
mittances. If for no other
reason, many immigrants
believe, that should give
politicians an incentive to
care about their votes. Gua-
temalan leaders and activ-
ists in Southern California
CLOTH AND CULTURE
cords of work done to re-
move lead-contaminated
soil from properties sur-
rounding the former Exide
battery recycling plant in
southeast Los Angeles
County.
The records, which de-
scribe the removal of soils
contaminated with brain-
damaging lead, were initially
intended to be mailed to
residents after remediation
work was conducted, but an
investigation by The Times
found lapses in the noti-
fication process. The de-
said they’re most concerned
about stemming the flow of
Guatemalan emigration,
lifting the country’s econo-
my and restoring the rule of
law.
“The oligarchy has co-
opted the entire state,” said
Mario Ávila, a local activist
and organizer sympathetic
to the leftist Movement for
the Liberation of Peoples,
whose presidential candi-
date is Thelma Cabrera. “If
we fill Congress with a large
number of MLP deputies, we
are going to create a Con-
gress of dignity and we are
going to make more struc-
tural changes and we will be
able to remove all those cor-
rupt judges and prose-
cutors.”
In 2019, the first year that
expatriate Guatemalans
were allowed to vote, 19 can-
didates ran for president. A
total of 8.1 million voters at
home and abroad were reg-
istered, and 5 million partici-
pated. In the first electoral
round, Sandra Torres of the
National Unity of Hope
party finished first, with 1.1
million votes (25.53%), fol-
lowed by Alejandro Gi-
ammattei of Vamos (13.96%),
Mulet (11.22%) and Cabrera
(10.37%).
The electoral trend in the
United States, though of ex-
ponentially lesser volume,
was notably different.
Among migrants, Cabrera
received 235 votes, more
than double those of Gi-
ammattei, who went on to
win the election.
“There is great discon-
tent,” said Ávila, who attrib-
utes the differing results to
greater opposition among
immigrants to the political
ruling class. This year, he
and other L.A. activists have
been trying to drum up local
support for MLP candi-
dates, focusing on the Maya
community in the Westlake-
MacArthur Park area.
“The migrant is more
alert,” said Batres, adding
that candidates cannot eas-
ily buy the vote of U.S. immi-
grants, whereas in Guate-
mala it is customary for poli-
ticians to bribe voters with
as little as a T-shirt or a bag
of rice.
The three candidates
who appeared in Los Ange-
les spoke to similar preoccu-
pations.
partment is in the process of
making the records avail-
able in an interactive map on
its website. The information
details the cleanup status of
roughly 10,000 properties, as
well as lead levels.
Publication of the infor-
mation marks a new level of
transparency from state offi-
cials, who have been accused
of mismanaging one of the
largest toxic cleanup proj-
ects in California history.
So far, the state has over-
seen the cleanup of more
than 4,600 properties. State
GUATEMALAN presidential candidates Edmond
Mulet, left, Bernardo Arévalo and Amílcar Pop.
Pop, 45, of Indigenous
Qeqchi descent, is a lawyer
who identifies ideologically
as a leftist. He was elected to
two terms in Congress and is
currently a legislator of the
Central American Parlia-
ment.
In an interview with the
Los Angeles Times, he said
he wanted to focus on im-
proving economic condi-
tions in Guatemala to curb
the brain drain of young, ed-
ucated professionals fleeing
the country.
“We want to technify and
industrialize Guatemalan
agriculture, generate
enough technology and bet
on micro-enterprises, get
out of underdevelopment,”
he said. He would hope to
achieve that, in part, by im-
proving services at Guate-
mala’s consulates — which,
he believes, have lapsed
under President Giammat-
tei — and by shoring up dip-
lomatic relations with the
U.S. government, he said.
Arévalo, 64, a sociologist
and former diplomat, said
his four-year budget propos-
al for foreign services would
double that of the Giammat-
tei administration from $118
million to $237 million. He
also pledged to review con-
sulate staffing to determine
whether there needs to be
personnel changes.
He also stressed the need
for the federal government
to invest more in job creation
and healthcare.
“The people who are leav-
ing Huehuetenango, San
Marcos and Quetzaltenango
guidelines dictate that con-
tractors should excavate soil
from properties until the
lead concentration is below
80 parts per million, or dig to
a depth of 18 inches. The soil
removed from the property
is then replaced with non-
contaminated fill.
A Times investigation
published in February found
contractors failed to meet
the lead concentration and
depth standards in more
than 500 of 3,370 cleaned
properties. The state toxics
agency initially argued that
James Carbone Los Angeles Times
are not people who want go
on vacation or have an ad-
venture. Those people are
leaving because there is no
other possibility to survive
than going to look for work
where it exists,” Arévalo
said, referring to the western
regions of Guatemala close
to the Mexican border.
Mulet, 72, emphasized
the need to combat corrup-
tion, which drains resources
and undermines economic
development. The center-
right lawyer, who is a former
president of Congress and
former ambassador to the
United States, vowed to at-
tract more investment by
bolstering the rule of law.
“The culture of care for
migrants is going to
change,” said Mulet, who
has been critical of the Gi-
ammattei government.
At the end of the forum,
Yolanda Nish, originally
from Quetzaltenango, be-
lieved that the three candi-
dates largely echoed one an-
other.
“They were all almost the
same,” the San Fernando
Valley resident said. “I like to
participate, but I wouldn’t
vote for anyone even if they
convinced me, because even
if I were there [in Guate-
mala] they won’t keep what
they promise.”
Emilsa Bautista, origi-
nally from San Marcos state,
traveled all the way from
Dallas to attend the forum.
The restaurant owner ar-
rived in the United States 30
years ago.
“I want to know who I am
M O N DAY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 23
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
underground objects, such
as pipes or tree roots, may
have prevented contractors
from digging deeper.
The department insisted
that a failure to meet clean-
up standards did not mean a
home was unsafe because
adding clean topsoil would
prevent exposure to lead
contamination, unless the
buried soil was unearthed.
Agency officials said
homeowners were informed
when work crews failed to
achieve the cleanup goals.
Every homeowner, they said,
going to vote for,” said
Bautista, a native of the city
of Tecún Umán, on the bor-
der with Mexico.
To U.S. voters accus-
tomed to choosing between
two political parties, the
idea of having to sort
through 23 candidates may
be unimaginable.
Cristhians Castillo, a re-
searcher at the Institute of
National Problems at the
University of San Carlos in
Guatemala City, said that
there are 30 registered politi-
cal parties in Guatemala
and that all are required by
law to field candidates for
Congress and municipal
councils, whose elections
also will be held June 25. In
these elections, 160 deputies,
20 members of the Central
American Parliament and
340 mayors will be elected for
four-year terms beginning in
2024.
Castillo said the large
number of parties reflects
the presence of many satel-
lite parties that orbit around
major parties. They are use-
ful mostly for forming coali-
tions with major parties that
then can pass or block legis-
lation, as well as shield the
major parties and their rep-
resentatives from legal pros-
ecution and political scru-
tiny. The 160 deputies who
will be elected will appoint
judges and magistrates to
the Supreme Court of Jus-
tice.
Like those of most of its
Central American neigh-
bors, Guatemala’s democ-
racy is shaky, and its elector-
al institutions arouse deep
suspicions about their com-
petence and impartiality.
One prominent recent
example involved Cabrera,
52, the MLP candidate, from
southwestern Guatemala’s
Retalhuleu state, who is a
leftist of Mam Maya descent
and represents one of the
country’s most impover-
ished rural areas.
But her candidate regis-
tration was denied by the
Supreme Electoral Tri-
bunal, setting off a legal bat-
tle. On May 2, the Constitu-
tional Court rejected the ap-
peal filed by the MLP, argu-
ing that Cabrera’s vice
presidential candidate, for-
mer human rights attorney
Jordán Rodas, lacked a rou-
tine registration document.
B5
Security
guard kills
gunman,
cops say
By Lila Seidman
and Libor Jany
One person was killed
and a security guard was
wounded Sunday morning
following a shootout in
South L.A., according to po-
lice.
An armed security guard
was trying to remove a man
from a location near Wash-
ington Boulevard and Los
Angeles Street about 7 a.m.
when an argument broke
out, according to the Los An-
geles Police Department.
The man pulled out a
shotgun and fired at the se-
curity guard. A second secu-
rity guard returned fire, a
spokesperson for the LAPD
said.
The gunman died at the
scene, police said. The
wounded security guard was
taken to a hospital, where he
was listed in stable condi-
tion.
KTLA-TV reported the
security guard was hit in the
leg.
The station also reported
that the incident was said to
have occurred outside an il-
legal gambling den.
was told they could request a
document describing the
details of the cleanup of their
property.
However, The Times
spoke with more than a doz-
en residents and homeown-
ers of failed cleanups who
were unaware that their
home had been flagged or
that they could request ad-
ditional information.
The state toxics agency
has recently uploaded more
than 800 reports to its web-
site, with more to be up-
loaded in the coming weeks.
In an interview with The
Times, political scientist
Anita Isaacs, a professor at
Haverford College, said Ca-
brera and Rodas were
blocked because both have a
vision of social change that
breaks with the political es-
tablishment’s status quo.
“They represented the
option to resume the peace
accords, resume the hope of
building a society where the
rule of law prevails and
where a more inclusive and
democratic state and soci-
ety, in every sense, is deep-
ened,” said Isaacs, referring
to negotiations between the
government and the leftist
guerrilla rebel forces that
ended the civil war but have
been undermined by corrup-
tion and the widespread
granting of impunity, ac-
cording to human rights
groups.
The chance of minor-
party candidates advancing
to the Aug. 20 runoff, if no
candidate gets more than
50% of the votes in the first
round, is slim. Of the three
candidates who visited Los
Angeles, Mulet stands the
best chance of advancing,
Castillo said.
“What the survey does is
expose the wear and tear
that the traditional political
class has had,” he said, not-
ing that the three candi-
dates with the highest dis-
approval ratings all have
close ties with former presi-
dential administrations.
L.A. resident Leonel De
La Cruz has been sharing his
preferences for candidates
without shady pasts on
WhatsApp.
“You know who can do
something for the country,
and we know those who have
dark ties,” the Guatemala
City native said.
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Cool and unsettled weather: Upper-level low pressure will move in from the west today, bringing cooler condi- Showery and cool in New England: A slow-moving storm system off the
tions with clouds and limited sun. A shower or drizzle could occur along coastal locations, with clouds linger- Maine coast will throw back clouds and showers as far west as western
ing through much of the day. Showers and thunderstorms will occur in the mountains and possibly drift into New York while rain falls along coastal areas. But farther to the west, dry
lower elevations tonight. Unsettled weather will continue Tuesday. weather will continue, bringing warm afternoons.
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Gun death data make the case for strict controls

[Skelton, from B1] lower rates. They include people dying from fentanyl
California has the strongest New York and New Jersey, overdoses, Minority Leader
gun safety laws in the nation which Giffords grades with Brian Jones (R-San Diego)
and has been a trailblazer,” “A-” and “A,” respectively, on asserted, they “stand on
it reports. gun control. this [Senate] floor and get
The state Legislature California’s gun owner- self-righteous about gun
recently has been heavy into ship rate is one of the very control.”
strengthening California’s lowest, with 16% of house- The Assembly recently
gun laws even further. More holds having firearms. passed a more problematic
on that below. Unless I’m missing bill, which now heads to the
Mississippi gets an “F” something, the fact that Senate. It would impose an
from Giffords: It “has the blue states with big urban 11% excise tax on the sale of
weakest gun laws in the centers — California, New guns and ammunition,
country and the highest gun York, New Jersey — have raising $160 million annu-
death rate.” lower gun death rates than ally. The money would fund
That’s backed up by the many rural red states is gun violence prevention
National Center for Health even more proof that gun programs.
Statistics. For 2021, the year control works. Cities tend to It’s a good cause. These
with the latest data, it re- be more ridden with crimi- programs work. But they
ports that Mississippi had nal gangs than are country should be paid for out of the
the nation’s highest gun villages. state general fund. It’s a
death rate of nearly 34 per There’s also research societal problem. Everyone
100,000 people. that shows you’re less safe should kick in. Not just
That includes homicides, around a gun than away Francine Orr Los Angeles Times hunters and target shoot-
suicides and accidental from one. Again, that’s CALIFORNIA’S RATE of gun ownership is among the nation’s lowest, with fire- ers. Lots of bad guys steal
shootings. logical — despite gun lobby arms in 16% of households. Above, an April 24 news conference in Monterey Park. their guns anyway and
Other states with weak propaganda. would never pay the tax.
gun control laws and high “Living with a handgun magazines, a required back- law with one that passes It would impose uniform The bill’s author, Assem-
gun death rates include owner is associated with ground check on ammuni- Supreme Court muster is statewide standards for blyman Jesse Gabriel (D-
Louisiana, Alabama, Wyo- substantially elevated risk tion buyers — are being this year’s biggest gun bill in issuing permits to carry Woodland Hills), says man-
ming, Alaska, Montana, of dying by homicide,” a challenged in lawsuits filed Sacramento. concealed weapons. No ufacturers and retailers
Arkansas, Missouri, Ten- Stanford University report by gun rights advocates who “You don’t need a gun to longer would it be at the would be taxed, not con-
nessee, South Carolina and concluded last year after a have been inspired by the go to your daughter’s soccer local sheriff ’s discretion. sumers. But you know how
Oklahoma. study of 18 million California firearms-friendly U.S. game,” the bill’s author, Sen. “Sheriffs vehemently that goes. The consumer
Mississippi also has one adults over a 12-year period. Supreme Court. Anthony Portantino (D- oppose my bill because they eventually pays.
of the nation’s highest gun “Women bear the brunt A monumental pro-gun Burbank), keeps repeating. want to be able to give out The bill, AB 28, was
ownership rates, according of the elevated risks. ... The decision last year by the “You don’t need a gun to go permits willy-nilly,” the passed on a party-line vote,
to the Centers for Disease fatal assaults they experi- Supreme Court threw out a to Dodger Stadium. You lawmaker says. 56 to 17.
Control and Prevention. enced often took the form of New York law restricting don’t need a gun to go to The Senate sent the Gov. Gavin Newsom
Slightly more than 50% of being shot by men they lived who could carry concealed where alcohol is sold.” measure to the Assembly should pony up general fund
the state’s residents have with,” reported Yifan loaded guns. Portantino’s bill, SB 2, recently on a 29-9 vote. Most money to pay for the worth-
firearms in their homes. Zhang, a study co-author. In effect, the court also would ban concealed weap- Democrats voted “yes.” while programs and avoid
Contrast that with Cali- Meanwhile, some of invalidated California’s ons in government build- Republicans were opposed. taxing law-abiding gun
fornia, where the gun death California’s strongest gun similar law. ings, schools, medical facili- The debate was heated. owners.
rate was 9 per 100,000. There laws — the ban on assault Legislation to replace ties, churches, playgrounds, While Democrats “won’t Control their guns. Lay
are seven states with even weapons and high-capacity the old concealed weapons athletic fields and bars. do a damn thing” about off their pocketbooks.

Drones find sharks near people more often than thought

[Sharks, from B1] danger,’ ” Rex said. “And “It was assumed that cially those at aggregation pothesized that the sharks is that the sharks will be here
to sharks at the aggregation what we’ve seen is that that’s sharks are miles out, but you spots, to help ensure safe have started to identify hu- for the summertime and
sites,” Patrick Rex, a lab not necessarily the case.” could be wading and then swimming and water recre- mans as “not food.” then, when our water gets
technician at the Shark Lab, The fish “tend to mind have a shark swim right next ation, Lowe said. “But that’s such a hard too cold, they migrate down
said in a statement. “Most of their own business,” Rex to you,” he said. The young sharks gather conclusion to make because to Mexico,” Rex said.
the time water users didn’t said. No shark bites were re- in the aggregation spots for we still don’t really know why But the study found
even know the sharks were “And they come up within ported at any of the beaches several years, feasting on sharks bite people,” Rex some sharks never left.
there, but we could easily see like 10 feet of people, and observed during the two- stingrays and small fish on said. Climate change and
them from the air.” that’s happening daily,” he year survey. From 1950 to No- the seafloor. Still, humans do not ap- warmer waters could be the
In an interview with The said. “What we found is that vember 2022, there were 209 Exactly why sharks are so pear to be on the menu. reason, Rex said.
Times, Rex called the find- they’re spending the major- documented shark inci- disinterested in humans is That may be a blessing as “It means that the sharks
ings surprising. “People ity of their time within 100 dents in California, accord- still a mystery, Rex said. it appears sharks may be may not be making that long
think, ‘If I see a shark in the yards of where the waves are ing to the state Department Even when hunting, they staying along the coastline migration anymore,” Rex
lineup [the area where breaking.” of Fish and Wildlife. tend to ignore what’s going for longer periods of time. said. “But we need more
waves begin breaking], I’m That’s a lot closer than These new data can be on at the surface. “What we’ve been telling data and more time to make
going to get bitten or I’m in originally thought. used by lifeguards, espe- Rex and Lowe have hy- people for the past 20 years any conclusions on that.”

D
LAFC CAN’T FINISH IT OFF
LAFC GOALKEEPER John McCarthy dives to block a shot in front of the net by León midfielder Lucas Di Yorio as LAFC defender Aaron
Long (33) tries to defend during the second half. Di Yorio scored the game’s only goal in the 20th minute on a shot from about 10 yards.
Vela’s effort falls
short of what
LAFC needed
DYLAN HERNÁNDEZ
The visitors
connected a
series of
passes in the
midfield,
inspiring cries
from the
corner of
BMO Sta-
dium occu-
pied by their supporters.
“Olé! Olé!”
Carlos Vela gave chase.
Kind of.
Vela’s faint effort to
dispossess León of the ball
was in vain. About 10 min-
utes later, the fourth official
on the sideline held up an
electronic board that
Deeper field makes
third Crown race
first in excitement
Derby favorite Forte,
Preakness winner
National Treasure add
spice to the Belmont.
By John Cherwa
It’s not often that the
best of the Triple Crown
races is the last one, but
that’s how it is this year with
the 155th running of the Bel-
mont Stakes on Saturday.
It has arguably the best
3-year-old in Forte, the win-
ner of the Preakness Stakes
in National Treasure, and
eight other horses who
should be fresh enough to
handle the always tricky
11⁄2-mile course.
This year’s Kentucky
Derby was clouded by a se-
ries of horse deaths and late
scratches that watered
down the field to 18 horses in
the 20-gate field. Forte was
scratched the morning of
the Derby because of a
bruise on his hoof. The two
best horses from California,
SPORTSM O N D AY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 2 3 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S
CO N CACA F C H A M P I O N S L E AGU E F I NA L :: LE Ó N 1, L A F C 0
flashed the No. 10, Vela’s
jersey number. With almost
a half-hour remaining in the
second leg of the CONCA-
CAF Champions League
final, Vela was replaced by
someone named Stipe Biuk.
Vela didn’t produce any
magic Sunday night, cer-
tainly not the kind of magic
that could have reversed
LAFC’s deficit against León
of Mexico in a game that
crowned the best club team
in a region that covers
North and Central America
and the Caribbean.
León won the game 1-0
and the two-game set with
an aggregate score of 3-1.
Vela is 34 years old, and
[See Hernández, D6]
Practical Move and Skinner,
were scratched before race
day when both developed a
temperature. Saffie Joseph
Jr. had to scratch his horse,
Lord Miles, after the trainer
was suspended when two of
his horses had sudden-
death incidents during the
week before the Derby.
The Preakness field was
lacking appeal with only one
horse who ran in the Ken-
tucky Derby, the winner
Mage. The field was scratch-
ed down to seven, including
two horses who were auto-
matic qualifiers despite less
than impressive past per-
formances.
And now we have the race
that immodestly calls itself
“The Test of Champions”
because of its length. It
might be the only time in a
horse’s career that it runs
this far on a dirt surface.
Forte will be the pre-
sumptive favorite having
last raced in the Florida
Derby on April 1. He was the
Kentucky Derby favorite but
took an awkward step late in
[See Belmont, D2]
L E Ó N W I N S 3-1 O N AG G R E GAT E
Photographs by Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
LAFC FORWARD Carlos Vela, left, and León midfielder Fidel Ambriz battle for
first-half control in León’s victory in the CONCACAF Champions League final.
Big stage doesn’t
faze rookie Miller
in dominant start
He tosses six shutout
innings vs. Yankees on
national TV to hint at
breakout-star status.
N.Y. YANKEES 4
DODGERS 1
By Jack Harris
Ahead of the biggest
game yet of his burgeoning
major league career, Bobby
Miller was a picture of poise
Matthew Stockman Associated Press
in the Dodgers’ clubhouse
Sunday afternoon.
A few hours before taking
A SUNDAY DRIVE the mound against the New
The Nuggets’ Aaron Gordon goes to the rim as York Yankees — on ESPN’s
the Heat’s Max Strus (31) and Kevin Love de- “Sunday Night Baseball”
fend. The Heat won 111-108 to even the Finals. D3 and in front of a sold-out
crowd of 52,000, no less — the
right-handed rookie re-
Fullerton ousted Craig, pitching laxed, seemingly unfazed by
by No. 1 Stanford guru, dies at 93 the high-pressure stage he
was about to take.
Titans give up a home Roger Craig, who was He cracked jokes with the
run in the sixth inning with the Dodgers as a teammates in front of his
as season ends in 6-5 player, managed Giants stall. He marveled at videos
loss to top seed. D3 to a World Series. D5 of Aaron Judge crashing
through the bullpen wall the
D
León scores the
only goal to
secure coveted
trophy, foiling
MLS again
By Kevin Baxter
LAFC has made a habit
of collecting trophies at its
fortress-like stadium in Ex-
position Park, bringing
home two Supporters’
Shields and an MLS Cup in
the last four seasons. No
MLS team has won more.
But LAFC let the biggest
prize slip through its hands
Sunday night, losing to León
1-0 at BMO Stadium in the
CONCACAF Champions
League final, the region’s
most important club com-
petition. That result, com-
bined with last week’s 2-1 re-
sult in Mexico, gave León a
3-1 victory in the two-leg
playoff, which is decided by
the aggregate score over
both games.
“We got beat by a very
good team,” LAFC coach
Steve Cherundolo said. “If
you look at the 180 minutes
of play, they deserve it. We’re
obviously disappointed and
it hurts, as it should.
“But we now know where
the level is we need to get to.
And we’ll do everything in
our power to get there and to
come back stronger and to
win this event.”
But if that sounds like a
concession speech, Cherun-
dolo made clear it wasn’t.
“If I’m very honest and
open and honest, I don’t
think that they are the bet-
ter team,” he said. “I just
think that they were better
[in] these two games. That’s
how
works.”
this competition
León was certainly the
better team Sunday, with
Lucas Di Yorio’s goal mid-
way through the first half
giving the team its first
CONCACAF title in its sec-
ond appearance in the re-
gional final, the last coming
in 1993, when the competi-
tion had a different name
and format. The win also
gave Liga MX clubs 17 of the
last 18 CCL championships
and 38 in 58 tournaments
overall.
For LAFC, Sunday’s loss
was just its 15th in 104 games
at home. But it was also the
second time in four years
LAFC has fallen in the CCL
final.
And LAFC’s fate might
have been sealed before
kickoff when Cherundolo
[See LAFC, D6]
ANGELS 2, HOUSTON 1
Ohtani fuels rally
in the series finale
Slugger hits go-ahead
RBI double in eighth as
Angels avoid being swept,
end three-game slide. D5
night before. And as Dave
Roberts passed through the
locker room, he greeted the
manager with a cool, confi-
dent grin.
“It’s a pleasant surprise,”
Roberts said later when
asked how Miller has carried
himself so far as a big leagu-
er. “Sometimes when you get
here, the focus heightens or
narrows even more. And I
think so far with Bobby,
that’s what we’ve seen.”
Indeed, in his third career
start Sunday night, Miller
offered more of the scintil-
[See Dodgers, D5]
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HOCKEY: STANLEY CUP FINAL through four matches. He No. 17 Lorenzo Musetti 6-3 French Open doubles warning to Kato. But after
5 p.m. Florida at Vegas, Game 2 TV: TNT has had his less-than-amia- 6-2 6-2 and will face No. 5 player Miyu Kato and her tournament referee Remy
SOCCER ble back-and-forths with Stefanos Tsitsipas, who beat partner were forced to forfeit Azemar and Grand Slam su-
5 p.m. Ecuador, Delfin at Cuenca TV: GOLTV some spectators over the Sebastian Ofner 7-5 6-3 6-0. a match when Kato acciden- pervisor Wayne McEwen
7 p.m. NWSL, Chicago at Angel City FC TV: BSSC, last week in Paris, but when World No. 2 Aryna Sa- tally hit a ball girl in the neck went to Court 14 to look into
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TENNIS everyone as he heard some to advance to the quarter- Court 14 at Roland Garros, of Indonesia, were disquali-
5 a.m. French Open, fourth round TV: BSW, Tennis chants of his two-syllable finals. Sabalenka will face Kato took a swing with her fied.
10 a.m. French Open, fourth round TV: Tennis nickname, “No-le!” Elina Svitolina, who de- racket and the ball flew That made Marie
In his 55th career major feated No. 9 Daria Kasatk- toward the ball kid, who was Bouzkova of the Czech Re-
2 a.m. French Open, quarterfinals TV: Tennis
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(Tue.)
erer, who retired with 58, is Two unseeded women rection while heading off the Tormo of Spain the winners
the only man to reach more moved on and will play each court. of the match.

Horse
deaths
loom over
Belmont
[Belmont, from D1]
the week and rumors swirled
about him going on the
growing list of scratched
John Locher Associated Press horses. The state veterinari-
SHEA THEODORE (27) turned in one of his best ans ordered him to jog on the
games of the postseason in a redemptive Game 1. track the morning of the
race, and, after a heated ex-

Theodore finds net change with owner Mike Re-

pole, he was scratched from
the race.

to fuel the Knights Because he was scratch-

Ex-Ducks defenseman STANLEY CUP
regains form and ends FINAL
27-game scoring slump WC2 Florida vs. P1 Vegas
just in time to spark Golden Knights lead series 1-0
Gm 1 Vegas 5, Florida 2
Vegas in Cup Final. Gm 2 Tonight at Vegas, 5
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LAS VEGAS — Without a
goal all playoffs, Shea Theo-
dore found the net just when
the Vegas Golden Knights
needed it.
In Game 1 of the Stanley
Cup Final, Theodore took a
pass at one side of the blue
line, skated to the other side,
circled back to dangle Flor-
ida Panthers forward An-
thony Duclair and move into
the slot before firing a wrist
shot past Sergei Bobrovsky.
It was vintage Theodore.
And it came at a critical
juncture heading into
Game 2 on Monday night.
Theodore’s goal ignited
the crowd and, more impor-
tantly, his team. The former
Ducks defenseman also had
an assist in Vegas’ series-
opening 5-2 victory Sat-
urday night, which was
something of a show of re-
demption for the 27-year-old
defenseman.
Theodore ended a 27-
game scoring drought dat-
ing to March 7.
“I feel good about it, but
right now it’s all about the
next game and getting that
next one,” Theodore said. “I
feel like a lot of us felt more
comfortable [Saturday]. It
Gm 3 Thursday at Florida, 5
Gm 4 Saturday at Florida, 5
Gm 5 June 13 at Vegas, 5*
Gm 6 June 16 at Florida, 5*
Gm 7 June 19 at Vegas, 5*
All times PDT, p.m.; TV: TNT
* if necessary
kind of showed in our game
the way we attacked and the
way we stayed out of scrums,
and I guess the score sheet
as well.”
For Theodore, though, it
was a coming-out party at
the right time, as he didn’t
necessarily look like himself
through the first three
rounds. If anything, he had
looked like what he was de-
scribing all week when
speaking about Vegas when
it lost in the 2018 Final, say-
ing the Knights appeared
overwhelmed in their mag-
ical inaugural season.
Coming into the Final, he
was averaging just one shot
every 12 shifts. On Saturday,
he averaged at least one shot
every eight shifts.
“Shea’s a huge part of our
group,” Vegas forward Jack
Eichel said. “It was good to
see him get rewarded there,
but ... the way that he trans-
ports the puck up the ice, he
can be a one-man breakout
at times. He does so much
for our team.”
ed by the state, he was put on
a “veterinarian’s list,” which
made him ineligible for
14 days, plus he had to pass a
blood test. That kept him
from running in the Preak-
ness, and he was pointed
toward the Belmont. His
presence alone makes this a
very interesting race.
Here are some other sto-
rylines to watch for this
week:
Haven’t horses been dying
at an alarming rate?
Racing has its biggest
safety issue since 30 horses
died at Santa Anita in 2019.
Since April 27, 12 horses
have perished at Churchill
Downs, causing the Horse
Racing Integrity and Safety
Authority (HISA) to recom-
mend that racing be sus-
pended there. The track an-
nounced it will do so out of
“of an abundance of cau-
tion.”
Full cards were run Sat-
urday and Sunday, and
training was allowed to con-
tinue at the track.
But starting Saturday,
racing will be moved to
Churchill-owned Ellis Park,
some 130 miles away. Pimlico
Race Course had one racing
fatality in its short meeting
surrounding the Preakness.
Now it’s Belmont Park’s
turn to be in the spotlight.
Since May 13, it has had four
racing or training fatalities,
the latest Thursday.
For comparison, Santa
Anita had its last racing or
training fatality March 18. So
the scrutiny couldn’t be
higher on Belmont, and the
longtime survival of the
sport could hang in the bal-
ance.
Frank Franklin II Associated Press
SPECTATORS WAIT IN LINE at a concession stand before last year’s Belmont
Stakes. The 11⁄2-mile course should provide a stiff challenge for the 10-horse field.
Which tactics work in the ern California-based horses With a race as long as the
11⁄2 -mile race? at Belmont Park this coming Belmont, one factor to con-
You would think the long- weekend but only one in the sider is horses whose sire
er the race the better late big race. have excelled at producing
runners do in it because they National Treasure, win- distance-loving runners.
have the best finishing kick. ner of the Preakness, will go One dominant name
That’s not the case. for trainer Bob Baffert and comes up — Tapit. The now
The last two winners of be ridden by John Ve- 22-year-old has sired four
the Triple Crown, Justify lazquez. Belmont Stakes winners in
and American Pharoah, led On Friday, Amy C, win- eight years.
the entire race. ner of three of her last four It started in 2014 with
The same goes for Secre- races, including the Las Ci- Tonalist and was followed by
tariat, who never looked enegas Stakes, will go seven Creator (2016), Tapwrit
back after taking the lead furlongs on the turf for (2017) and Essential Quality
early in the race. trainer Phil D’Amato. (2021).
To find out how to win the Baffert will have Arabian Of the 12 Belmont start-
race, it was asked of Hall of Lion, winner of the Sir Bar- ers sired by Tapit, in addi-
Fame jockey Victor Es- ton Stakes at Pimlico on tion to the four victories,
pinoza, who rode American May 20, and Fort Bragg, sec- there have been two seconds
Pharoah, how to come out ond in the Pat Day Mile on and two thirds.
on top. Derby Day, going in the sev- Website horseracingna-
“It’s a little challenging,” en-furlong Woody Stephens tion.com did the added re-
Espinoza said. “It’s easier to Stakes for 3-year-olds. search and found that seven
ride the front-runner be- Trainer Doug O’Neill has of those horses ran in the
cause you can slow down Anarchist, winner of the Kentucky Derby but
and control the pace, but not Jacques Carter Stakes at skipped the Preakness.
too much. If you can go slow Woodbine, set for the All of those horses hit the
enough, it will be tough for 61⁄2-furlong True North. board, finishing with three
the other horses to catch The best undercard race wins, two seconds and two
you. I find you make a mis- might be the Metropolitan thirds.
take if you spend too much Handicap, otherwise known So how does it play this
time thinking about a mile- as the Met Mile, with the year?
and-a-half. O’Neill-trained Slow Down There is Tapit Trice, who
“The horse will run 11⁄2 Andy, winner of the Del Mar finished seventh in the Ken-
miles like 11⁄8 miles. You have and Sunland Derbies last tucky Derby but skipped the
to get the horse running out year, and Mark Glatt- Preakness.
of the gate and get to the first trained Dr. Schivel, winner The Todd Pletcher train-
turn. That’s when you set of the Santa Anita Sprint ee will get an added look be-
your pace. Then the only dif- Championship last year. cause of his name, as will
ference is knowing when to Yet all eyes will be on Tapit Shoes, who runs for
let your horse run. You need Cody’s Wish, winner of eight Brad Cox. Tapit Shoes has
to show patience and not ask of his last nine races, includ- never run in a graded stakes.
too early.” ing the Breeders’ Cup Dirt If you are looking for a lit-
Mile. tle second-generation Tapit,
Which Southern California the mares of Arcangelo, Hit
horses should I watch? What’s the best under-the- Show and Red Route One
There are seven South- radar angle? were all sired by Tapit.
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Jokic scores 41, but
Miami regroups late
and hands Denver
its first home loss
of these playoffs.
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DENVER 108
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DENVER — Staring
down a 2-0 deficit in the NBA
Finals, as the visitors in a
hostile arena where no road
team had prevailed in more
than two months, the Miami
Heat decided to do what
they’ve done throughout the
postseason.
They found a way.
Against all odds. Again.
The Heat tied the NBA
Finals and had to overcome
a monster 41-point effort
from Nikola Jokic to do it.
Gabe Vincent scored
23 points, Jimmy Butler and
Bam Adebayo each had 21,
and the Heat beat the Den-
ver Nuggets 111-108 in Game 2
on Sunday.
“Our guys are competi-
tors,” Heat coach Erik
Spoelstra said. “They love
these kind of moments.”
Evidently.
They were down by as
many as 15 points, down
eight going into the fourth,
and those numbers signified
they were going to lose. Den-
ver was 11-0 in these playoffs
when leading by double dig-
its at any point in a game,
and 37-1 this season overall
when leading by at least
eight going into the fourth.
The Heat didn’t care.
They outscored Denver 17-5
to take the lead for good,
eventually went up by 12,
then frittered most of it away
and had to survive a three-
point try by Jamal Murray as
time expired.
“This is the Finals,” Ade-
bayo said. “We gutted one
out.”
Max Strus scored 14 and
Duncan Robinson had 10 —
all of them in the fourth — for
the Heat, who had a big early
lead, then got down by 15.
They had no answers for Jo-
kic, who was 16 of 28 from the
field, the last of those shots a
four-footer with 36 seconds
left to get the Nuggets to
within three.
Denver elected not to foul
on the ensuing Miami pos-
session, and it paid off. But-
ler missed a three, and with a
chance to tie, Murray missed
a three-pointer at the
buzzer.
“I just contested it,” But-
ler said. “Pretty glad that he
missed it.”
Denver lost at home for
the first time since March 30
and for the first time in 10
home playoff games this
year. And just as he did after
a Game 1 win, Nuggets
coach Michael Malone
sounded the alarm after a
Game 2 loss.
“Let’s talk about effort,”
Malone said. “I mean, this is
the NBA Finals and we’re
talking about effort. That’s a
huge concern of mine. You
guys probably thought I was
just making up some story-
line after Game 1 when I said
we didn’t play well. This is
not the preseason. This is
not the regular season. This
is the NBA Finals.”
Murray had 18 points and
10 assists for Denver, while
THE HEAT’S Bam Adebayo goes up for two of his
21 points as the Nuggets’ Aaron Gordon defends.
NBA FINALS
Denver vs. Miami
Series tied 1-1
Gm 1 Denver 104, Miami 93
Gm 2 Miami 111, Denver 108
Gm 3 Wednesday at Miami, 5:30
Gm 4 Friday at Miami, 5:30
Gm 5 June 12 at Denver, 5:30
Gm 6 June 15 at Miami, 5:30*
Gm 7 June 18 at Denver, 5*
All times p.m., PDT | TV: Ch. 7
* if necessary
Aaron Gordon had 12 points
and Bruce Brown scored 11.
“They just played hard,
and like I said, it was more
discipline,” Murray said.
Strus, who was 0 for 10 in
Game 1, had four threes in
the first quarter of Game 2.
Butler made a jumper with
4:56 left in the opening quar-
ter to put Miami up 21-10, ty-
ing the second-biggest lead
any opponent had built in
Denver so far in these play-
offs.
The Nuggets outscored
Miami 32-11 over the next
nine minutes, turning the
double-digit deficit into a
double-digit lead thanks to a
three-point barrage.
run home run in the top of
club at the end of the season,
and Milan had already an-
nounced there would be a
special ceremony after its
match against Hellas
the sixth inning to lift top- Verona to bid farewell to the
seeded Stanford past Cal 41-year-old Swede and for-
State Fullerton 6-5 in an mer Galaxy star.
elimination game at the He was given a guard of
Stanford Regional on Sun- honor by his teammates as
day in Palo Alto. he walked out and struggled
Maddox Latta singled to hold back the tears as he
home a run in the first and took the microphone and
Cole Urman belted a solo said: “The time has come to
home run in the second to say goodbye to soccer but
stake Cal State Fullerton to not to you.”
a 2-0 lead, but Tommy Troy
Mark J. Terrill Associated Press put the Cardinal in front Karim Benzema con-
with a three-run homer in verted his penalty kick and
the third. received a standing ovation
The Titans grabbed the from fans before being sub-
lead in the fourth when Nate stituted, bringing an end to
Heat 111, Nuggets 108 Nankil doubled to deep his memorable career with
MIAMI
right-center field to score host Real Madrid.
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Butler ...............40 7-19 5-5 2-4 9 0 21 Jack Haley before Becerra
Love .................22 2-9 0-0 3-10 1 0 6 put Stanford in the lead for Uruguay and South Ko-
Adebayo ............40 8-14 5-5 0-9 4 4 21
Strus ................29 4-10 2-3 0-2 6 3 14 the final time. rea advanced to the semifin-
Vincent .............31 8-12 3-3 0-0 3 4 23 Trevor Hinkel (1-5) gave als of the Under-20 World
Lowry................23 2-4 3-3 0-0 3 3 9
Martin...............21 1-3 0-0 2-5 1 1 3 up three runs, four hits and Cup after the South Ameri-
Robinson...........17 4-5 0-1 0-0 1 2 10 three walks in 32⁄3 innings of cans beat the United States
Zeller ..................8 2-2 0-0 0-0 0 3 4
Highsmith............6 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 2 0
relief and took the loss. 2-0 in Santiago del Estero,
Totals 38-78 18-20 8-31 28 22 111 Late Sunday, Stanford Argentina. South Korea se-
Shooting: Field goals, 48.7%; free throws, defeated Texas A&M 13-5 to cured its spot with a 1-0 vic-
90.0% force a deciding game Mon- tory against Nigeria.
Three-point goals: 17-35 (Vincent 4-6, Strus
4-10, Lowry 2-3, Robinson 2-3, Butler 2-5, Love day night.
2-6, Martin 1-2). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turn- A’ja Wilson scored
overs: None. Blocked Shots: 4 (Adebayo 2, Mar- In other regional action, 27 points and grabbed 10 re-
tin, Strus). Turnovers: 11 (Adebayo 3, Lowry 3,
Martin 2, Butler, Vincent, Zeller). Steals: 5 (Love Tre Richardson hit two bounds, Candace Parker
2, Vincent 2, Martin). Technical Fouls: None. grand slams among his made two free throws with
DENVER three home runs and tied an 24 seconds left, and the Las
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Gordon..............38 5-7 0-2 1-7 2 3 12 NCAA postseason record Vegas Aces beat the host In-
Porter Jr.............26 2-8 0-0 1-6 0 2 5 with 11 RBIs to lead Texas diana Fever 84-80 to extend
Jokic.................41 16-28 7-8 3-11 4 3 41
Caldwell-Pope ....36 1-4 3-3 0-3 3 6 6 Christian to a 20-5 rout of their franchise record for
Murray ..............38 7-15 1-1 1-4 10 2 18 host Arkansas. TCU ad- consecutive wins (six) to
Brown ...............27 4-9 2-2 1-5 0 1 11 vanced to the championship open a season. ... Kahleah
Green ...............15 1-1 6-6 1-1 1 2 9
Braun ...............15 3-3 0-0 1-1 3 2 6 round Monday. ... No. 7 Vir- Copper scored 27 points and
Totals 39-75 19-22 9-38 23 21 108 ginia, No. 14 Indiana State, Courtney Williams added 11,
Shooting: Field goals, 52.0%; free throws, No. 15 South Carolina, Ten- including nine in the fourth
86.4%
Three-point goals: 11-28 (Murray 3-8, Gordon nessee and Texas advanced quarter, to help the Chicago
2-2, Jokic 2-5, Green 1-1, Brown 1-3, Caldwell- to super regionals. Indiana Sky rally to beat the host
Pope 1-3, Porter Jr. 1-6). Team Rebounds: 8. State, hosting a regional for New York Liberty 86-82. ...
Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 2 (Caldwell-
Pope, Gordon). Turnovers: 13 (Jokic 5, Brown 3, the first time, won 11-8 over DeWanna Bonner scored
Braun, Caldwell-Pope, Green, Murray, Porter Jr.). Iowa to make its first super 22 points, and the host Con-
Steals: 7 (Braun 3, Brown 2, Caldwell-Pope,
Murray). Technical Fouls: None. regional. ... No. 4 Clemson necticut Sun held off a sec-
Miami 26 25 24 36— 111 became the highest national ond-half rally by Dallas, de-
Denver 23 34 26 25— 108 seed eliminated from the feating the Wings 80-74.
A—19,537. T—2:24. NCAA tournament in a 3-2
loss to Charlotte. The U.S. beat France 16-
12 to win the gold medal at
NiJaree Canady threw a the 3-on-3 women’s basket-
one-hitter, and No. 9 Stan- ball World Cup in Vienna,
ford beat No. 7 Washington Austria, while Serbia pre-

Lakers’ Reaves to play for Team USA
The soon-to-be
restricted free agent
pledges to participate
in FIBA World Cup
event this summer.
By Dan Woike
This summer, during
which he’s expected to sign a
multiyear contract worth, at
minimum, $51 million, is set
to become even more memo-
rable for the Lakers’ Austin
Reaves, as the former un-
drafted guard committed to
play with Team USA at the
FIBA World Cup in Japan.
Sources with knowledge
of the situation not author-
ized to speak publicly said
Reaves committed to USA
Basketball President Grant
Hill in the weeks following
the Lakers’ elimination from
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
LAKERS GUARD
Austin Reaves’ swift
career ascent continues.
the Western Conference fi-
nals.
The FIBA World Cup will
be played Aug. 25 through
Sept. 10 in the Philippines,
Indonesia and Japan.
Anthony Edwards,
Tyrese Haliburton, Mikal
Bridges and Bobby Portis
have also pledged to play for
Team USA, according to the
Athletic.
Reaves’ place on Team
USA is the latest reminder of
his swift ascent from going
undrafted in 2021.
The Lakers signed
Reaves to a two-way con-
tract ahead of the 2021-22
season, but his play in mini-
camp before the season
earned him a promotion to a
full-time roster spot.
He ended his rookie sea-
son with 31 points, 16 re-
bounds and 10 assists in a
win in Denver.
Only Jerry West, Oscar
Robertson and Blake Griffin
had previously recorded 30-
point, 15-rebound, 10-assist
triple-doubles as rookies in
NBA history.
Reaves played only 16
minutes in the Lakers’ sea-
son opener last fall, but by
March he was indispens-
able.
He scored in double fig-
1-0 to advance to the Wom-
en’s College World Series
semifinals in Oklahoma
City. Canady won a duel of
vented an American sweep
by rallying to beat the U.S. 21-
19 in the men’s title game.
Cierra Burdick and Lou-
ures in each of the Lakers’ fi- Pac-12 standouts against isiana State guard Hailey
nal 18 games in the regular Washington’s Ruby Meylan. Van Lith each scored seven
season as the team pushed Stanford (47-14) will play points in the title game to
into the postseason. two-time defending champi- give the American women
He moved into the start- on Oklahoma (58-1) on Mon- their third World Cup title
ing lineup during that day. and first since 2014.
stretch, with the Lakers go- Ashley Rogers threw a
ing 8-2 after coach Darvin complete game to lead No. 4 Rick Adelman received
Ham made the switch. seed Tennessee to a 3-1 win the Chuck Daly Lifetime
He shot 52.9% from the against No. 6 Oklahoma Achievement Award, pre-
field and 39.8% from three- State to reach the semifin- sented by the National
point range in the regular als. The Volunteers (51-9) will Basketball Coaches Assn.
season while averaging face No. 3 Florida State Adelman is 10th in NBA his-
13 points, three rebounds (57-9) on Monday. tory with 1,042 regular-sea-
and 3.4 assists. son wins and 13th with 79
Reaves made 63.1% of his playoff victories. He took the
two-point shots — just the ETC. Portland Trail Blazers to the
ninth time ever a player NBA Finals twice.
6 foot 6 or shorter made
more than 60% on twos when
Ibrahimovic Norma Hunt, the second
attempting at least 250. decides to retire wife of the late Kansas City
Reaves capped his sec- Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt
ond season by averaging Veteran AC Milan for- and the only woman to at-
16.9 points in his first playoff ward Zlatan Ibrahimovic tend every Super Bowl, has
appearance. announced his retirement died. She was 85. The Hunt
He’s a restricted free from soccer at the end of an family, which still owns the
agent this summer, eligible emotional night at San Siro. franchise, announced the
for a four-year, $51-million Ibrahimovic was out of passing of the Chiefs’ matri-
deal from the Lakers. contract with the Serie A arch in a statement.

GOLF

Hovland tops McCarthy in playoff to claim Memorial

associated press
Viktor Hovland handled
the toughest stretch at
Muirfield Village and deliv-
ered three clutch putts at
the end to win the Memorial
in a playoff over Denny Mc-
Carthy on Sunday.
Hovland closed with a
two-under-par 70 on anoth-
er brutal test on a course
baked all week by sun in
Dublin, Ohio, forcing the
playoff with a 30-foot birdie
on the 17th — the only one on
that hole in the final round —
and saving par from behind
the 18th green.
Back to the 18th in the
playoff, Hovland barely got
onto the front of the green,
some 60 feet away from the
back pin, and two-putted by
holing a seven-foot par putt.
It was his fourth PGA
Tour victory and first on
American soil, this one with
a $3.6-million winner’s check
and a handshake from host
Jack Nicklaus. The Norwe-
gian’s previous victories
were in Mexico twice and
Puerto Rico.
“I played smart. I played
my game. And I came up
clutch this time,” Hovland
said.
McCarthy had a one-shot
lead when he missed the 18th
fairway to the left, pitched
out to the fairway and nar-
rowly missed a 25-foot par
putt for the win. In the play-
VIKTOR HOVLAND shot a two-under 70 and then won the Memorial in a play-
off. “I played smart. I played my game. And I came up clutch this time,” he said.
off, his shot from the right
rough rolled back off the
green some 50 yards away.
He pitched to 12 feet, and the
putt caught the left edge and
spun away.
“I’m heartbroken right
now,” McCarthy said, emo-
tion in his voice after his
closest call to win on the
PGA Tour in his 156th at-
tempt.
Zhang, 20, makes
history in pro debut
Two-time NCAA cham-
pion and former Stanford
star Rose Zhang became the
first LPGA Tour winner in
her pro debut in 72 years,
capturing the Mizuho
Americas Open in Jersey
City, N.J., with a par on the
second hole in a playoff
against Jennifer Kupcho.
The last female player to
win as a pro in her debut was
Beverly Hanson, who edged
Babe Zaharias to take the
Eastern Open in 1951.
Zhang, of Irvine, shot a
two-over 74 in the final round
and squandered a chance to
win the event on the 72nd
hole when she missed an
Darron Cummings Associated Press
eight-foot par saver after
making at least a half-dozen
clutch saves in a gritty final-
round performance.
The much-heralded 20-
year-old made a nearly iden-
tical eight-footer on No. 18 at
Liberty National on the first
playoff hole. Kupcho, who
won an NCAA title at Wake
Forest in 2018 and had a fi-
nal-round 69, also made a
par.
Both players hit the fair-
way on No. 18 on the second
playoff hole, but Zhang hit
her approach from the fair-
way within 10 feet. Kupcho
GO L F R E S U LT S
$20-MILLION THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT $2-MILLION PRINCIPAL CHARITY CLASSIC
At Dublin, Ohio—Par 72 At Des Moines—Par 72
Muirfield Village Golf Club—7,571 yards Wakonda Club—6,851 yards
Final 72-hole results Final 54-hole results
(x-won playoff) 199 (-17)—$300,000
281 (-7)—$3,600,000 Stephen Ames .......................................66-66-67
x-Viktor Hovland (550) .......................71-71-69-70 200 (-16)—$160,000
281 (-7)—$2,160,000 Jerry Kelly .............................................66-69-65
Denny McCarthy (315)........................71-72-68-70 Steve Stricker.........................................64-68-68
282 (-6)—$1,360,000 201 (-15)—$108,000
Scottie Scheffler (200) .......................74-73-68-67 Rod Pampling ........................................66-69-66
283 (-5)—$960,000 Tim Petrovic...........................................69-65-67
Si Woo Kim (140)..............................71-68-71-73 203 (-13)—$72,000
284 (-4)—$760,000 David Branshaw .....................................68-67-68
Andrew Putnam (110) ........................71-72-71-70
Jordan Spieth (110)...........................69-72-72-71
Steve Flesch ..........................................67-69-67
Miguel Angel Jimenez ..............................67-72-64
285 (-3)—$645,000
$2.8-MILLION MIZUHO AMERICAS OPEN
Rory McIlroy (92)...............................72-68-70-75
Adam Schenk (92) ............................75-71-68-71 At Jersey City, N.J.—Par 72
286 (-2)—$540,000 Liberty National—6,671 yards
Matt Fitzpatrick (78)...........................76-68-70-72 Final 72-hole results
Rickie Fowler (78)..............................72-68-74-72 (x-won playoff)
279 (-9)—$412,500
Adam Scott (78) ...............................70-75-70-71
x-Rose Zhang ....................................70-69-66-74
287 (-1)—$405,000
Wyndham Clark (63) ..........................70-71-70-76 279 (-9)—$256,544
Tyrrell Hatton (63)..............................71-71-73-72 Jennifer Kupcho.................................71-70-69-69
Lee Hodges (63) ...............................72-69-70-76 280 (-8)—$186,104
David Lipsky (63) ..............................69-69-72-77 Hae-Ran Ryu.....................................72-72-66-70
288 (E)—$271,500 281 (-7)—$118,217
Joseph Bramlett (50)..........................73-70-70-75 Aditi Ashok .......................................67-72-68-74
Sam Burns (50) ................................71-71-73-73 Ayaka Furue......................................69-74-69-69
Russell Henley (50)............................74-71-68-75 Eun-Hee Ji ........................................71-69-70-71
Luke List (50) ...................................73-74-71-70 282 (-6)—$70,463
Ashleigh Buhai ..................................75-71-72-64
Shane Lowry (50) ..............................69-76-70-73
was short on her approach, lead. Herron fell back with a
her first putt went just over 72. Stricker, coming off his
the back edge of the green, second consecutive major ti-
and her second putt just tle this year at the Senior
missed. That left Zhang with PGA Championship, played
a two-putt par to win. bogey-free for a 68.
Ames earns third McKibbin emerges
victory of season at European Open
Stephen Ames birdied Tom McKibbin won the
the 17th hole and closed with European Open in his debut
a five-under 67 for a one-shot season on the European
victory over Steve Stricker tour.
and Jerry Kelly in the Princi- The 20-year-old from
pal Charity Classic in Des Northern Ireland started
Moines, Iowa, giving Ames the final round as one of six
his third PGA Tour Champi- players tied for the lead at
ons title this year. six under par and went on to
Ames, Stricker and Tim win by two shots at nine
Herron shared the 36-hole under overall.
D4 MO N DAY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 23 L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S

BASEBALL

YANKEES 4 ANGELS 2 PIRATES 2 PHILLIES 11

NL STANDINGS
DODGERS 1 ASTROS 1 CARDINALS 1 NATIONALS 3
West W L Pct. GB L10
DODGERS 35 25 .583 — 4-6 Streak Lost 2 This month 1-2 Streak Won 1 This month 1-3 Rich Hill kept batters off balance in his Kyle Schwarber hit a pair of three-run
Arizona 35 25 .583 — 6-4 Home 20-10 Road 15-15 Home 15-13 Road 16-17 longest start of the season, and Pitts- homers, and Drew Ellis hit his first two
Division 12-7 Interleague 4-5 Division 10-10 Interleague 6-6 burgh completed its first three-game home runs of the season. It was the
San Francisco 29 30 .492 51⁄2 5-5
Next: Tuesday at Cincinnati, 4 p.m. PDT Next: Tuesday vs. Cubs, Angel Stadium, 6:30 p.m. sweep over St. Louis in five years. Hill, 23rd career multihomer game for
San Diego 27 32 .458 71⁄2 5-5 TV/Radio: SportsNet LA/570, 1020 TV/Radio: Bally Sports West/830, 1330 43, gave up four hits and struck out six Schwarber and his first of the season.
Colorado 26 35 .426 91⁄2 4-6 in 62⁄3 innings as the Pirates pushed
N.Y. Yanks AB R H BI Avg. Dodgers AB R H BI Avg. Angels AB R H BI Avg. Houston AB R H BI Avg. Phila. AB R H BI Avg. Wash. AB R H BI Avg.
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Torres 2b 4 0 0 0 .258 Betts rf 4 0 0 0 .257 Ohtani dh 4 0 1 1 .274 Dubón 2b 4 0 1 0 .294 their winning streak to five. Ji Hwan Schwrbr lf 5 2 2 6 .172 Thomas rf 4 0 1 0 .278
Rizzo 1b 3 1 0 0 .293 Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 .331 Trout cf 3 0 0 0 .264 Peña ss 4 0 0 0 .252 Guthrie lf 0 0 0 0 .118 García 2b 4 0 0 0 .267
Milwaukee 32 27 .542 — 5-5 Stanton dh 4 0 1 0 .271 Smith c 3 0 0 0 .308 Drury 1b-2b 4 0 1 0 .254 Alvarez dh 3 0 0 0 .274 Bae had a two-run single in the first. Castllns rf 5 0 3 0 .316 Mnses dh 4 1 1 0 .305
Calhoun lf 2 0 0 0 .241 Muncy 3b 4 0 0 0 .203 Ward lf 4 0 1 0 .241 Bregman 3b 4 0 2 0 .256 Harper dh 4 0 1 0 .298 Cndlrio 3b 3 0 0 0 .260
Pittsburgh 31 27 .534 1
⁄2 6-4 Cabrera lf 1 0 0 1 .199 Martinez dh 4 1 1 1 .276 Thaiss c 4 0 1 0 .280 Tucker rf 4 0 0 0 .276 Turner ss 5 0 0 0 .232 Garrett lf 3 0 0 1 .263
LeMahieu 3b 4 0 0 0 .239 D.Peralta lf 3 0 2 0 .242 Renfroe rf 3 0 0 0 .252 McCormick lf 2 0 0 0 .237 St. Louis AB R H BI Avg. Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Sosa ss 0 0 0 0 .254 Smith 1b 4 1 2 0 .269
Chicago 26 32 .448 51⁄2 4-6 Bauers rf 4 1 1 0 .238 Vargas 2b 2 0 1 0 .227 Urshela 3b 3 0 1 0 .310 Diaz 1b 4 1 2 1 .246 Edman cf 3 0 2 0 .259 Marcano ss 4 0 0 0 .267 Stott 2b 4 1 1 0 .288 Vargas ss 4 1 2 2 .320
K.-Falefa cf 3 1 1 0 .222 Taylor ss 3 0 0 0 .211 Rengifo 2b 3 1 1 1 .221 Meyers cf 3 0 0 0 .238 Gldscidt 1b 4 0 0 0 .296 Rnolds dh 4 1 2 0 .282 Relmto c 5 1 2 1 .258 Adams c 4 0 2 0 .316
Cincinnati 26 33 .441 6 5-5 Higashioka c 4 0 0 1 .209 Outman cf 2 0 0 0 .230 Walsh 1b 0 0 0 0 .162 Maldndo c 3 0 0 0 .203 Gorman 2b 4 0 0 0 .270 Suwinski lf 4 1 1 0 .236 Marsh cf 3 1 0 1 .272 Call cf 4 0 2 0 .218
Volpe ss 4 1 2 2 .193 Totals 29 1 4 1 Neto ss 3 1 0 0 .238 Totals 31 1 5 1 Arenado 3b 3 0 0 0 .263 Santana 1b 3 0 0 0 .234 Clmns 1b 5 2 2 0 .253 Totals 34 3 10 3
St. Louis 25 35 .417 71⁄2 3-7 Totals 33 4 5 4 Totals 31 2 6 2 Yepez rf 2 0 0 0 .214 Hayes 3b 4 0 3 0 .242 Ellis 3b 3 4 3 3 .400
Angels 000 001 010 —2 6 0 b-Donovan lf 1 0 0 0 .246 Bae cf 4 0 2 2 .274 Totals 39 11 14 11
East W L Pct. GB L10 N.Y. Yankees 000 000 112 —4 5 0
Dodgers 000 000 100 —1 4 2 Houston 000 010 000 —1 5 0 DeJong ss 3 0 0 0 .239 Castro 2b 4 0 0 0 .263 Philadelphia 010 013 303 —11 14 0
Atlanta 35 24 .593 — 5-5 Walks—Angels 1: Trout 1. Houston 2: Alvarez 1, McCormick 1. Baker dh 4 0 2 0 .500 Palacios rf 2 0 0 0 .267 Washington 000 100 002 — 3 10 1
Walks—New York 4: Torres 1, Rizzo 1, Calhoun 1, Kiner-Falefa 1. Strikeouts—Angels 5: Trout 2, Drury 1, Thaiss 1, Rengifo 1. 1-Mercado 0 0 0 0 .333 a-Joe rf 2 0 0 0 .252 Walks—Philadelphia 7: Schwarber 1, Castellanos 1, Harper 2,
Miami 32 28 .533 31⁄2 7-3 Dodgers 3: Smith 1, Vargas 1, Outman 1. Walker lf-rf 4 0 0 0 .259 Hedges c 3 0 2 0 .179
Houston 6: Dubón 1, Peña 1, Alvarez 1, Bregman 1, Maldonado 2. Knizner c 4 1 1 1 .232 Totals 34 2 10 2 Marsh 1, Ellis 2. Washington 1: Candelario 1.
Strikeouts—New York 10: Torres 1, Rizzo 2, Stanton 2, LeMahieu LOB—Angels 3, Houston 6. 2B—Ohtani (10), Diaz (4). Strikeouts—Philadelphia 9: Schwarber 2, Castellanos 1, Turner 1,
New York 30 30 .500 51⁄2 5-5 3, Bauers 1, Volpe 1. Dodgers 8: Betts 1, Freeman 1, Muncy 2, Totals 32 1 5 1
HR—Rengifo (3), off France; Diaz (3), off Canning. RBIs—Rengifo Stott 1, Realmuto 1, Marsh 2, Clemens 1. Washington 7: García 1,
Martinez 1, Taylor 2, Outman 1. (17), Ohtani (41), Diaz (7). St. Louis 000 000 100 —1 5 0 Meneses 1, Candelario 1, Garrett 2, Smith 1, Call 1. E—Vargas (2).
Philadelphia 27 32 .458 8 4-6 E—Muncy (6), Graterol (2). LOB—New York 6, Dodgers 4. Runners left in scoring position—Angels 2 (Trout, Renfroe); Pittsburgh 200 000 00x —2 10 0 LOB—Philadelphia 10, Washington 6. 2B—Harper (8), Vargas (3).
2B—Stanton (4), D.Peralta (6). HR—Volpe (9), off Ferguson; Houston 2 (Dubón, Meyers). RISP—Angels 0 for 2; Houston 0 for 5. a-flied out for Palacios in the 6th. b-grounded out for Yepez in the 3B—Meneses (1). HR—Realmuto (5), off Williams; Ellis (1), off
Washington 25 34 .424 10 4-6 Martinez (14), off Germán. RBIs—Higashioka (15), Cabrera (17), Runners moved up—Meyers. GIDP—Drury, Ward, Diaz. 8th. 1-ran for Baker in the 9th. Williams; Schwarber (14), off Machado; Ellis (2), off Machado;
Volpe 2 (26), Martinez (41). SB—Torres (6), Outman (7). CS—Vargas DP—Angels 1 (Neto, Drury, Walsh); Houston 2 (Peña, Dubón, Walks—St. Louis 3: Edman 1, Yepez 1, DeJong 1. Pittsburgh 1: Schwarber (15), off Ward; Vargas (2), off Brogdon. RBIs—Realmuto
(2). Diaz; Bregman, Dubón, Diaz). Santana 1. Strikeouts—St. Louis 8: Goldschmidt 1, Gorman 3, Yepez (19), Ellis 3 (3), Schwarber 6 (33), Marsh (25), Garrett (10), Vargas
Sunday’s results Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Runners left in scoring position—New York 4 (Volpe, Stanton, 1, Baker 1, Knizner 2. Pittsburgh 5: Marcano 1, Suwinski 1, Hayes 1, 2 (10). SB—Stott (9). SF—Marsh, Garrett. DP—Philadelphia 2
New York Yankees 4, at DODGERS 1 LeMahieu 2); Dodgers 3 (Vargas, Taylor, Freeman). RISP—New York 1 Canning ......................6 4 1 1 1 4 87 4.47 Castro 1, Joe 1. LOB—St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 9. 2B—Edman (12), (Turner, Stott, Clemens; Ellis, Stott, Clemens); Washington 1
Devenski, W, 3-0 ........12⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 28 2.45
at Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 1 for 8; Dodgers 0 for 3.
Estévez, S, 14-14 .......11⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 11 1.42
Hedges (4). HR—Knizner (5), off Hill. RBIs—Knizner (12), Bae 2 (14). (Candelario, García, Smith).
Runners moved up—Cabrera. SB—Bae 2 (17). RISP—St. Louis 0 for 6; Pittsburgh 2 for 9. Runners Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Milwaukee 5, at Cincinnati 1 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA moved up—Goldschmidt, Bae. Suárez, W, 1-2 .............7 8 1 1 1 3 101 5.47
Germán ....................62⁄3 4 1 1 1 6 99 3.69 France ........................7 3 1 1 1 3 90 3.44 Hoffman ......................1 0 0 0 0 2 13 0.77
at Miami 7, Oakland 5 Holmes, W, 4-2 ............1 0 0 0 1 2 17 2.84 Maton, L, 0-1...............1 2 1 1 0 1 17 1.26
St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO
Mikolas, L, 4-2 .............5 10 2 2 0 2
NP ERA
91 3.74 Brogdon ......................1 2 2 2 0 2 26 4.03
Toronto 6, at New York 4 W.Peralta, S, 4-5 ........11⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 18 2.84 B.Abreu.......................1 1 0 0 0 1 14 1.91 Cabrera.....................12⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 16 4.37 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA HBP—Canning (McCormick). Hicks........................11⁄3 0 0 0 1 3 20 4.07 Williams, L, 2-4..........52⁄3 6 4 4 4 6 101 4.15
Philadelphia 11, at Washington 3 B.Miller .......................6 1 0 0 2 7 86 1.06 U—Bruce Dreckman, Stu Scheuwater, Malachi Moore, Derek Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Machado.....................1 5 4 4 1 1 36 8.47
at Kansas City 2, Colorado 0 Graterol.......................1 2 1 0 0 2 16 1.82 Thomas. T—2:20. Tickets sold—40,831 (41,000). Hill, W, 5-5 ................62⁄3 4 1 1 3 6 96 4.41 Thompson .................11⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 26 3.90
Phillips, L, 1-1..............1 1 1 1 1 0 20 1.99 Moreta, H, 3 ................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 5 1.67 Ward...........................1 2 3 3 1 2 26 5.23
Baltimore 8, at San Francisco 3 Ferguson .....................1 1 2 2 1 1 23 2.14 Ramirez, H, 3 ...............1 0 0 0 0 0 12 1.29 Inherited runners-scored—Machado 2-2. HBP—Thompson
Atlanta 8, at Arizona 5 Inherited runners-scored—Holmes 1-0. WP—Ferguson. Bednar, S, 13-14..........1 1 0 0 0 1 11 1.12 (Stott). WP—Machado.
Chicago 7, at San Diego 1 U—Ryan Blakney, Marvin Hudson, Hunter Wendelstedt, John Inherited runners-scored—Moreta 1-0. HBP—Hill (Arenado). U—Brian Walsh, CB Bucknor, Chris Segal, Ben May. T—2:57.
Tumpane. T—2:35. Tickets sold—52,816 (56,000). BREWERS 5 U—Jacob Metz, Tripp Gibson, Mark Carlson, Brennan Miller.
T—2:14. Tickets sold—22,947 (38,753).
Tickets sold—29,546 (41,376).

REDS 1
AL STANDINGS RAYS 6 Adrian Houser pitched seven sparkling MARLINS 7 BLUE JAYS 6
West W L Pct. GB L10
RED SOX 2 innings, and Andruw Monasterio hit his ATHLETICS 5 METS 4
Texas 38 20 .655 — 8-2 first career home run. Milwaukee,
Houston 35 24 .593 31⁄2 7-3 Yandy Díaz’s sixth-inning RBI single which has won four of five, won its first Luis Arraez hit a tiebreaking infield Brandon Belt broke a seventh-inning
ANGELS 31 30 .508 81⁄2 3-7
turned into a two-run Little League road series since the Brewers swept a single in the eighth inning, and Miami tie with a two-run homer to help To-
homer, and major league-best Tampa three-game set April 17-19 at Seattle. finished a three-game sweep. The ronto complete a three-game sweep,
Seattle 29 30 .492 91⁄2 4-6 Bay beat Boston. The Rays improved to Cincinnati has lost four in a row. Marlins’ 32-28 record is the third best its first against New York. Tommy
Oakland 12 49 .197 27 ⁄2 1
2-8 6-1 against the Red Sox this season. in franchise history through 60 games. Pham hit two of the Mets’ four homers.
Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg.
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Yelich lf 3 0 0 0 .254 Newman dh 4 0 0 0 .271
Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Boston AB R H BI Avg. Oakland AB R H BI Avg. Miami AB R H BI Avg. Toronto AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg.
Miller 3b-2b 3 1 1 1 .319 McLain ss 4 0 2 0 .342
Minnesota 31 29 .517 — 5-5 Díaz 3b 5 1 2 1 .312 Verdugo rf 5 2 3 0 .296
Tellez 1b 4 0 2 0 .249 India 2b 4 0 1 0 .276
Ruiz cf 4 1 1 1 .267 Arraez 2b 4 1 2 1 .392 Springer rf 5 0 0 0 .257 Pham cf 4 2 2 2 .234
J.Lowe rf 3 1 2 1 .300 Devers dh 4 0 0 1 .241 Noda 1b 3 0 0 0 .234 DLCruz lf 5 1 2 0 .299 Bichette ss 5 0 0 0 .329 Canha lf 3 0 0 0 .244
Arozarena lf 5 0 0 0 .287 Turner 3b 4 0 0 0 .265 Singleton dh 3 1 0 0 .143 Fraley rf 4 1 1 1 .257 Laureano rf 4 1 2 2 .226 Sánchez rf 4 0 0 0 .302 Guero Jr. dh 4 2 2 1 .289 Lindor ss 4 0 1 0 .213
Cleveland 27 32 .458 31⁄2 6-4 Ramírez dh 3 0 0 0 .299 Yoshida lf 4 0 2 1 .318 Mnstrio 2b 1 1 1 3 .412 Steer 1b 3 0 0 0 .288 Bleday lf 3 0 0 0 .211 Cooper dh 4 2 2 3 .242 Belt 1b 5 1 1 2 .259 Alonso 1b 4 1 1 1 .231
Raley 1b 4 1 2 1 .252 Duran cf 3 0 1 0 .280 a-Brsseu 3b 3 0 0 0 .205 Stphnsn c 3 0 0 0 .236 b-Bride 0 0 0 0 .167 Gurriel 1b 4 1 3 1 .291 Chapman 3b 3 2 1 0 .281 Escobar 3b 4 0 0 0 .234
Detroit 26 31 .456 31⁄2 4-6 Paredes 2b 3 1 0 0 .266 Herndz ss 3 0 0 0 .233 Anderson 3b 0 0 0 0 .233 Senzel 3b 3 0 1 0 .258 c-Kemp 1 0 0 0 .149 Segura 3b 3 0 0 0 .191 Varsho cf-lf 3 1 1 0 .217 Marte rf 4 1 2 1 .250
Walls ss 4 0 0 0 .229 Casas 1b 2 0 0 0 .191 Perkins rf 4 0 0 0 .150 Benson cf 3 0 1 0 .167 Rooker dh 3 0 0 0 .256 Wendle ss 4 1 1 0 .219 Merrifld lf- 3 0 2 2 .299 McNeil 2b 4 0 0 0 .282
Chicago 26 35 .426 51⁄2 5-5 Margot cf 3 1 1 1 .250 Wong c 2 0 0 0 .236 Turang ss 4 0 0 0 .198 Hopkins lf 3 0 0 0 .000 d-Brown 1 0 0 0 .159 Stallings c 3 0 1 1 .161 Biggio 2b 3 0 0 0 .172 Vientos dh 3 0 1 0 .188
Bethncrt c 3 1 0 0 .242 Valdez 2b 4 0 0 0 .244 Caratini c 4 1 2 1 .216 Totals 31 1 6 1 Díaz 2b 4 0 0 0 .179 1-Fortes c 0 1 0 0 .241 Kiermaier cf 0 0 0 0 .295 Álvarez c 3 0 0 0 .237
Kansas City 18 41 .305 121⁄2 4-6 Totals 33 6 7 4 Totals 31 2 6 2 Wiemer cf 4 1 1 0 .206 Peterson 3b 3 1 1 0 .197 Davis cf 3 0 1 0 .303 Heineman c 2 0 0 0 .167 Totals 33 4 7 4
Totals 33 5 7 5 Langeliers c 3 1 1 0 .217 a-Soler 1 0 0 0 .245 a-Kirk c 1 0 0 0 .261
East W L Pct. GB L10 Tampa Bay 001 212 000 —6 7 0
Boston 001 010 000 —2 6 2 Milwaukee 300 020 000 —5 7 0 Allen ss 3 1 1 1 .204 Hmpsn cf 0 0 0 0 .239 Totals 34 6 7 5
Tampa Bay 42 19 .689 — 6-4 Walks—Tampa Bay 5: J.Lowe 1, Ramírez 1, Paredes 1, Margot 1,
Cincinnati 000 000 100 —1 6 0 Totals 32 5 6 4 Totals 35 7 12 6 Toronto 022 000 200 —6 7 0
a-grounded out for Monasterio in the 4th. Oakland 005 000 000 —5 6 0 New York 001 012 000 —4 7 1
Baltimore 37 22 .627 4 5-5 Bethancourt 1. Boston 6: Duran 1, Hernández 1, Casas 2, Wong 2.
Walks—Milwaukee 3: Yelich 1, Miller 1, Singleton 1. Miami 010 130 02x —7 12 1 a-struck out for Heineman in the 8th.
Strikeouts—Tampa Bay 10: Díaz 2, Arozarena 3, Ramírez 1,
Strikeouts—Milwaukee 8: Miller 1, Tellez 1, Singleton 2, Brosseau a-pinch hit for Davis in the 8th. b- for Bleday in the 9th. c-flied out Walks—Toronto 6: Guerrero Jr. 1, Chapman 1, Varsho 1, Merrifield
New York 36 25 .590 6 6-4 Paredes 1, Margot 2, Bethancourt 1. Boston 10: Devers 2, Turner 1,
1, Perkins 2, Wiemer 1. Cincinnati 3: McLain 1, Hopkins 2. for Bride in the 9th. d-struck out for Rooker in the 9th. 1-ran for
Duran 1, Hernández 2, Wong 2, Valdez 2. 1, Biggio 1, Heineman 1. New York 1: Canha 1. Strikeouts—Toronto
Toronto 33 27 .550 81⁄2 7-3 E—Yoshida (2), Wong (5). LOB—Tampa Bay 6, Boston 9. LOB—Milwaukee 4, Cincinnati 3. 2B—McLain (6). Stallings in the 8th. 11: Bichette 3, Belt 4, Chapman 1, Biggio 1, Heineman 1, Kirk 1. New
2B—Raley (8), J.Lowe (13), Verdugo 2 (19). 3B—Verdugo (2). HR—Monasterio (1), off Lively; Caratini (3), off Lively; Fraley (7), off Walks—Oakland 1: Noda 1. Miami 3: Arraez 1, Sánchez 1, Segura York 11: Pham 1, Canha 1, Lindor 3, Escobar 2, Marte 1, McNeil 1,
Boston 30 29 .508 11 4-6 RBIs—J.Lowe (38), Margot (16), Raley (22), Díaz (34), Yoshida (33), Houser. RBIs—Monasterio 3 (3), Caratini (10), Miller (17), Fraley 1. Strikeouts—Oakland 9: Noda 2, Laureano 1, Rooker 2, Brown 1, Vientos 1, Álvarez 1. E—Álvarez (4). LOB—Toronto 7, New York 3.
Devers (49). SB—J.Lowe (14). SF—J.Lowe, Devers. (37). SB—Yelich (14), Miller (8). Díaz 2, Langeliers 1. Miami 6: De La Cruz 1, Sánchez 2, Stallings 1, 2B—Merrifield (12), Chapman (22), Marte (5). 3B—Marte (1).
Runners left in scoring position—Tampa Bay 5 (Raley, Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 2 (Brosseau 2); Davis 1, Soler 1. E—Alcantara (3). LOB—Oakland 1, Miami 8. HR—Guerrero Jr. (9), off Senga; Belt (3), off Leone; Pham 2 (5), off
Sunday’s results Arozarena, Ramírez, Díaz, Paredes); Boston 3 (Valdez, Yoshida, Cincinnati 1 (Newman). RISP—Milwaukee 2 for 5; Cincinnati 1 for 4. 2B—Laureano (9), Cooper (6), Gurriel (6), Davis (2), Wendle (5). Kikuchi; Alonso (21), off Pearson; Marte (3), off Pearson.
Runners moved up—Hopkins. GIDP—Wiemer, Benson, Steer. 3B—Gurriel (3). HR—Cooper (6), off Blackburn. RBIs—Allen (3),
ANGELS 2, at Houston 1 Verdugo). RISP—Tampa Bay 2 for 12; Boston 1 for 10.
DP—Milwaukee 2 (Brosseau, Miller, Tellez; Miller, Turang, Tellez);
RBIs—Merrifield 2 (23), Guerrero Jr. (37), Belt 2 (14), Pham 2 (16),
Runners moved up—Arozarena 2, Bethancourt, Devers. Ruiz (25), Laureano 2 (15), Gurriel (13), Stallings (8), Cooper 3 Alonso (47), Marte (17). SB—Biggio (2), Merrifield (16). DP—Toronto
New York 4, at DODGERS 1 GIDP—Bethancourt, Hernández. Cincinnati 1 (McLain, India, Steer). (23), Arraez (27). SB—Peterson (6). SF—Stallings. GIDP—Bleday. 1 (Bichette, Biggio, Belt).
Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Tampa Bay 6, at Boston 2 DP—Tampa Bay 1 (Walls, Paredes, Raley); Boston 1 (Valdez, Houser, W, 2-1 .............7 6 1 1 0 2 92 3.45
DP—Miami 1 (Wendle, Gurriel).
Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Toronto IP H R ER BB SO
Kikuchi........................5 4 2 2 1 8
NP ERA
89 4.40
Casas).
at Miami 7, Oakland 5 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peguero.......................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 2.75 Blackburn....................5 7 5 5 2 3 85 6.00 Pearson, W, 3-0............1 2 2 2 0 1 15 2.50
Bradley, W, 4-2.............5 6 2 2 3 6 89 3.60 Strzelecki.....................1 0 0 0 0 0 11 3.71 Waldichuk .................12⁄3 2 0 0 1 0 34 7.22 Cimber, H, 1 ................1 1 0 0 0 0 11 3.94
Toronto 6, at New York Mets 4 Stephenson .................2⁄3 0 0 0 2 1 23 0.00 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pruitt, L, 1-3................2⁄3 2 2 1 0 1 16 3.78 Swanson, H, 14............1 0 0 0 0 1 8 2.83
Cleveland 2, at Minnesota 1 Diekman, H, 3............11⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 8 5.14 Lively, L, 3-3 ................7 6 5 5 3 5 104 3.03 Moll ...........................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 10 4.35 Romano, S, 15-18 ........1 0 0 0 0 1 6 3.00
Armstrong....................2 0 0 0 1 3 27 0.00 Cruz............................1 1 0 0 0 2 17 7.00 Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at Chicago 6, Detroit 2 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gibaut ........................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.62 Alcantara.....................7 6 5 5 0 7 89 5.07 Senga.......................22⁄3 4 4 3 5 3 68 3.75
at Kansas City 2, Colorado 0 Houck, L, 3-5...............5 5 4 4 4 6 92 5.46 U—Clint Vondrak, James Hoye, D.J. Reyburn, John Libka. T—2:17. Scott, W, 4-1 ...............1 0 0 0 1 0 14 3.21 Nogosek......................3 1 0 0 1 4 47 5.55
Kluber.........................2 2 2 2 1 1 34 6.25 Tickets sold—17,780 (43,891). Floro, S, 6-8 ................1 0 0 0 0 2 14 4.32 Leone, L, 0-2 .............11⁄3 2 2 2 0 0 18 5.40
at Texas 12, Seattle 3 Ort .............................2 0 0 0 0 3 22 6.28 Inherited runners-scored—Pruitt 1-0, Moll 2-2. PB—Langeliers Smith .........................1 0 0 0 0 2 18 3.48
Baltimore 8, at San Francisco 3 Inherited runners-scored—Diekman 2-0. (2). Brigham ......................1 0 0 0 0 2 11 3.80
U—Edwin Jimenez, Chris Guccione, David Rackley, Edwin U—Alfonso Marquez, Ramon De Jesus, Lance Barrett, Doug WP—Kikuchi. PB—Álvarez (2).
Moscoso. T—2:37. Tickets sold—34,192 (37,755). Eddings. T—2:36. Tickets sold—12,507 (37,446). U—Jeremie Rehak, Chad Fairchild, Nic Lentz, Charlie Ramos.
ROYALS 2 T—2:47. Tickets sold—42,169 (42,136).

TODAY’S GAMES ROCKIES 0

NATIONAL LEAGUE >>>
GUARDIANS 2 Brady Singer struck out seven in WHITE SOX 6 RANGERS 12
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME
MIL/Teheran (R) 1-1 0.82 4 p.m. TWINS 1 52⁄3 innings, his most since getting TIGERS 2 MARINERS 3
CIN/Abbott (L) — — eight April 14 against Atlanta, and
CHI/Hendricks (R) 0-1 3.86 6 p.m. Triston McKenzie struck out 10 in five Kansas City avoided a sweep. Singer Jake Burger’s game-ending grand slam Marcus Semien extended the major
SD/Snell (L) 1-6 4.50 MLB*
scoreless innings in his injury-delayed gave up no walks for the first time in gave Liam Hendriks his first victory leagues’ longest hitting streak this
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> season debut to help Cleveland split a seven starts. Despite the win, the since he returned from cancer, and season to 23 games, and Texas swept
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME four-game series against Minnesota. Royals lost their fifth straight series Chicago completed a three-game Seattle. The Rangers won consecutive
TB/McClanahan (L) 8-1 2.07 1 p.m.
BOS/Bello (R) 3-3 3.89
Emmanuel Clase posted his major and are 1-9 in home series this year. sweep. Hendriks worked a 1-2-3 ninth. games by a combined score of 28-9.
HOU/Bielak (R) 2-2 3.19 4 p.m. league-best 19th save with a scoreless Detroit AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Texas AB R H BI Avg.
ninth. He has 14 career saves against Colorado AB R H BI Avg. Kansas City AB R H BI Avg. McKinstry rf 4 0 1 0 .278 Anderson ss 4 1 2 0 .273 Kelenic lf 4 0 0 0 .270 Semn 2b 4 1 1 0 .303
TOR/Manoah (R) 1-6 5.46 Báez ss 3 0 0 0 .223 Burger dh 4 1 1 4 .265 Rodríguez cf 4 0 0 0 .242 Seager ss 3 3 2 2 .349
Doyle cf 4 0 0 0 .230 Pratto lf-1b 3 0 1 0 .293
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the Twins, his most versus any team. Profar lf 4 0 1 0 .229 Witt Jr. ss 3 0 0 0 .233 Baddoo lf 4 1 1 0 .250 Robert Jr. cf 4 2 2 0 .256 France 1b 4 1 2 0 .269 J.Smith ss 1 0 0 0 .217
McMhn 3b 4 0 0 0 .258 Psqutino 1b 3 0 0 0 .255 Torkelson 1b 4 1 1 2 .234 Jiménez rf 4 0 2 1 .266 Raleigh c 4 0 0 0 .226 Lowe 1b 4 2 1 0 .280
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME Mstaks 1b 4 0 2 0 .244 Lopez 2b 0 0 0 0 .239 Nevin dh 4 0 0 0 .118 Vaughn 1b 3 0 0 0 .253 Suárez 3b 4 1 1 1 .211 García rf 5 1 2 1 .260
DET/Wentz (L) 1-5 7.28 3:30 p.m. Cleveland AB R H BI Avg. Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Jones rf 4 0 2 0 .333 Perez dh 3 0 0 0 .278 Maton 3b 3 0 0 0 .162 Grandal c 4 0 1 1 .256 T.Hrndz rf 3 1 2 0 .241 Jung 3b 4 2 3 1 .294
Kwan lf 4 0 0 0 .260 Polanco 2b 4 0 0 0 .268 Castro 2b 4 0 1 0 .277 Melendez rf 3 1 1 0 .214 Ibáñez 2b 3 0 1 0 .183 Zavala c 0 0 0 0 .153 Ford dh 3 0 0 0 .167 Heim c 4 1 2 5 .293
PHI/Nola (R) 4-4 4.70 Rogers c 3 0 0 0 .152 Frazier lf 3 0 0 0 .231 a-Haggerty 1 0 1 0 .190 León c 1 0 0 0 .135
Freeman ss 4 0 0 0 .250 Lewis dh 4 0 0 0 .200 Montero dh 4 0 0 0 .222 Garcia 3b 3 1 1 1 .267
KC/Hernández (R) 0-3 4.76 3:30 p.m. Ramírez 3b 3 1 0 0 .261 Solano 1b 3 0 0 0 .288 Tovar ss 4 0 1 0 .247 Massey 2b 3 0 1 1 .236 Marisnick cf 3 0 0 0 .000 a-Benintendi 1 1 1 0 .275 Caballero ss 3 0 1 1 .250 Garver dh 5 1 2 1 .310
Naylor dh 3 1 1 1 .254 Kepler rf 4 0 0 0 .192 Wynns c 3 0 1 0 .192 Waters lf 0 0 0 0 .227 Totals 31 2 4 2 González 2b 3 0 0 0 .208 Wong 2b 4 0 1 1 .159 Grsmn lf 5 0 1 2 .239
MIA/Garrett (L) 1-2 4.22 FS1 b-Sheets 1 0 0 0 .234 Totals 34 3 8 3 Jnkwski cf 3 1 1 0 .301
Giménez 2b 3 0 1 1 .249 Jeffers c 3 0 0 0 .256 Totals 35 0 8 0 Fermin c 3 0 0 0 .208
OAK/Sears (L) 0-3 4.37 4 p.m. Arias 1b 3 0 0 0 .214 Farmer ss 4 0 1 0 .274 Bradley Jr. cf 3 0 0 0 .136 Andrus 3b 3 0 0 0 .194 Totals 39 12 15 12
PIT/Oviedo (R) 3-4 4.50 Brennan rf 2 0 1 0 .254 Castro 3b 4 1 1 1 .263 Totals 27 2 4 2 c-Moncada 0 1 0 0 .245 Seattle 000 000 300 — 3 8 0
Straw cf 3 0 0 0 .235 Garlick lf 3 0 0 0 .217 Totals 34 6 9 6 Texas 205 005 00x —12 15 0
STL/Wainwright (R) 2-1 6.15 5 p.m. Colorado 000 000 000 —0 8 0
Gallagher c 3 0 0 0 .121 Taylor cf 3 0 3 0 .224 Kansas City 000 010 01x —2 4 0 Detroit 000 200 000 —2 4 0 a-singled for Ford in the 9th.
TEX/Pérez (L) 6-1 4.43 MLB Totals 28 2 3 2 Totals 32 1 5 1 Chicago 000 101 004 —6 9 0
Strikeouts—Colorado 14: Doyle 2, Profar 1, McMahon 3, Walks—Seattle 1: T.Hernández 1. Texas 5: Semien 1, Seager 1,
* joined in progress Cleveland 000 000 200 —2 3 0 Moustakas 1, Jones 2, Montero 2, Tovar 2, Wynns 1. Kansas City 2: One out when winning run scored. a-singled for Frazier in the 9th. Lowe 1, Jung 1, Jankowski 1. Strikeouts—Seattle 11: Kelenic 3,
Minnesota 000 000 010 —1 5 0 b-struck out for González in the 9th. c-walked for Andrus in the 9th. Rodríguez 1, France 2, Raleigh 1, Suárez 1, T.Hernández 1, Ford 1,
Pratto 1, Bradley Jr. 1.
Walks—Cleveland 2: Ramírez 1, Brennan 1. Minnesota 2: Solano LOB—Colorado 8, Kansas City 1. 2B—Tovar (17), Melendez (11). Walks—Detroit 1: Báez 1. Chicago 4: Anderson 1, Burger 1, Wong 1. Texas 8: Lowe 2, García 1, Jung 1, Garver 2, Grossman 2.
1, Jeffers 1. Strikeouts—Cleveland 6: Kwan 1, Freeman 1, Naylor 1, HR—Garcia (1), off Freeland. RBIs—Massey (18), Garcia (12). Vaughn 1, Moncada 1. Strikeouts—Detroit 12: McKinstry 1, Báez 1, LOB—Seattle 6, Texas 8. 2B—Suárez (7), Semien (18), García (10),
Arias 1, Straw 2. Minnesota 16: Polanco 2, Lewis 3, Solano 2, Kepler CS—Massey (1). Baddoo 3, Torkelson 1, Nevin 2, Rogers 2, Marisnick 2. Chicago 14: Garver (1), Grossman (7), Jankowski (7), Seager (11).
ODDS 1, Jeffers 2, Farmer 2, Castro 3, Garlick 1. LOB—Cleveland 1,
Minnesota 6. 2B—Naylor (9), Taylor (6). 3B—Giménez (2).
Runners left in scoring position—Colorado 3 (Tovar 2, Wynns);
Kansas City 0. RISP—Colorado 0 for 5; Kansas City 1 for 2.
Burger 3, Robert Jr. 2, Vaughn 1, Frazier 2, González 2, Sheets 1,
Andrus 3 LOB—Detroit 3, Chicago 7. 2B—Ibáñez (6), Robert Jr. (16).
3B—T.Hernández (2). HR—Seager (6), off Miller; Heim (7), off Gott.
RBIs—Suárez (35), Caballero (12), Wong (9), Heim 5 (46), Seager 2
HR—Castro (5), off De Los Santos. RBIs—Naylor (41), Giménez (14), Runners moved up—Castro, Montero. HR—Torkelson (5), off Kopech; Burger (12), off Lange. (29), García (51), Garver (8), Grossman 2 (31), Jung (38).
NATIONAL LEAGUE RBIs—Torkelson 2 (26), Jiménez (22), Grandal (16), Burger 4 (29).
Castro (12). SB—Taylor 2 (8). CS—Brennan (2). DP—Minnesota 2 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA LIDP—Wong. DP—Texas 1 (J.Smith).
Favorite Underdog (Jeffers, Farmer, Jeffers; Castro, Polanco, Solano). Freeland, L, 4-7............7 4 2 2 0 1 89 4.06 SB—Baddoo (6), Báez 2 (5), Benintendi (7). Runners left in Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Milwaukee OFF at Cincinnati OFF Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Suter ..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 1.77 scoring position—Detroit 3 (Torkelson, Báez, Marisnick); Chicago 3 Miller, L, 3-3..............21⁄3 8 7 7 2 2 61 4.46
McKenzie.....................5 1 0 0 1 10 79 0.00 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA (Frazier 2, Robert Jr.). RISP—Detroit 1 for 6; Chicago 3 for 6. Speier ......................11⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 17 2.53
at San Diego -162 Chicago +136 Brash .......................11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 19 4.24
Karinchak, W, 2-4 .........1 1 0 0 0 2 16 3.86 Singer, W, 4-4 ............52⁄3 5 0 0 0 7 95 6.45 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
AMERICAN LEAGUE Stephan, H, 9 ..............1 0 0 0 0 2 8 2.84 Clarke, H, 8 ...............11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 20 2.89 Boyd...........................5 3 1 1 0 9 82 5.57 Gott............................1 4 5 5 1 1 27 3.38
Favorite Underdog De Los Santos, H, 4 ......1 2 1 1 0 0 10 1.96 Chapman, H, 7.............1 0 0 0 0 2 10 2.95 Vest, BS, 0-1................1 3 1 1 1 1 21 3.00 Festa ..........................1 0 0 0 2 1 24 6.75
Clase, S, 19-24............1 1 0 0 1 2 19 3.10 Barlow, S, 7-8 ..............1 2 0 0 0 3 17 3.52 Holton ........................2⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 19 2.48 Topa ...........................1 2 0 0 0 1 22 3.18
Tampa Bay -172 at Boston +144 Foley ........................11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 17 1.42 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Inherited runners-scored—Clarke 1-0.
at Toronto -132 Houston +112 Ryan, L, 7-3...............62⁄3 2 2 2 1 4 88 2.76 U—Alan Porter, Jim Wolf, Mike Muchlinski, Sean Barber. T—2:31. Lange, L, 3-1 ............... 1⁄3 2 4 4 2 1 23 2.55 Eovaldi, W, 8-2 .............6 1 0 0 0 7 87 2.24
INTERLEAGUE Thielbar ......................1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 10 1.74 Tickets sold—13,128 (38,427). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA J.Hernández.................2⁄3 3 3 3 1 2 26 6.65
De León ......................1 0 0 0 1 1 12 2.79 Kopech .......................7 3 2 2 1 9 92 4.33 Burke .......................11⁄3 2 0 0 0 2 19 2.96
Favorite Underdog Kelly ...........................1 1 0 0 0 1 17 4.08 King............................1 2 0 0 0 0 7 6.75
Jax .............................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 4.26
at Philadephia -230 Detroit +190 Inherited runners-scored—Thielbar 1-1. Hendriks, W, 1-0...........1 0 0 0 0 2 15 6.00 Inherited runners-scored—Speier 1-0, Brash 1-0, Burke 2-1.
at Miami OFF Kansas City OFF U—Will Little, Ryan Additon, Dan Merzel, Lance Barksdale. Inherited runners-scored—Foley 2-0. WP—Kelly. HBP—Eovaldi (Caballero). WP—J.Hernández. PB—León (1).
at Pittsburgh -174 Oakland +146 T—2:18. Tickets sold—23,629 (38,544). U—Ron Kulpa, Carlos Torres, Jansen Visconti, Alex MacKay. U—Andy Fletcher, Erich Bacchus, Laz Diaz, Mike Estabrook.
at Texas -120 St. Louis +102 BRAVES 8 T—2:29. Tickets sold—23,372 (40,241). T—2:51. Tickets sold—36,496 (40,000).

DIAMONDBACKS 5
ORIOLES 8 Eddie Rosario hit a grand slam off CUBS 7 NOTES
LEADERS
GIANTS 3 Miguel Castro with two outs in the PADRES 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>>
Player
Arraez, Miami ...................55
G AB
204 80
H R
21 .392
Avg.
Josh Lester drove in two runs with his
ninth inning for Atlanta. Arizona led 5-4
heading into the ninth after Ketel Marcus Stroman pitched six strong
Lovullo to stay
through 2024
Freeman, DODGERS ..........60 242 80 49 .331
Acuña, Atlanta..................59 236 78 52 .331 first major league hit in his season Marte hit a two-run homer and rookie innings to win his fourth straight start
Castellanos, Philadelphia....59 231 73 37 .316 debut, and Tyler Wells won for the first Corbin Carroll connected for a solo and rookie Miguel Amaya hit his first
Gurriel, Arizona .................53 200 62 30 .310
Díaz, Colorado ..................52 181 56 21 .309 time in his last four starts. Baltimore shot earlier in the game. The Braves major league home run for Chicago.
Meneses, Washington ........56 233 71 25 .305
Estrada, San Francisco.......47 193 58 30 .301 earned its 13th series win this season. had nine hits off starter Zac Gallen. Stroman lowered his ERA to 2.39. The Arizona Diamondbacks ex-
De La Cruz, Miami .............56 204 61 27 .299
Goldschmidt, St. Louis .......58 223 66 40 .296 Baltimore AB R H BI Avg. San Fran. AB R H BI Avg. Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. San Diego AB R H BI Avg. tended manager Torey Lovullo’s
Frazier 2b 4 0 0 1 .235 Wade Jr. 1b 3 1 0 0 .273 Acuña Jr. rf 5 2 3 0 .331 Smith rf 4 1 0 0 .206 Hoerner 2b 5 1 2 0 .284 Grisham cf 4 1 0 0 .193
Home runs
Rtchmn dh 5 1 2 0 .285 Davis 3b 3 0 2 0 .286 Olson 1b 5 0 2 1 .232 Marte 2b 4 1 1 2 .274 Swanson ss 4 0 1 2 .276 Tatis Jr. rf 4 0 2 0 .263 contract through the 2024 season.
Alonso, New York ............................................................. 21 Sntndr rf 5 0 0 0 .260 Flores dh 3 1 0 1 .243 Riley 3b 4 1 2 0 .262 Carroll lf 4 1 2 1 .286 Happ lf 3 0 1 0 .268 Soto lf 3 0 0 1 .253
Muncy, DODGERS............................................................. 18
The deal announced Sunday is
1-McKna rf 0 1 0 0 .246 Sabol lf 4 1 1 2 .254 d’Arnaud c 4 1 1 0 .278 Walker dh 4 1 1 0 .254 Suzuki rf 4 0 0 0 .273 Machado 3b 3 0 0 0 .222
Soler, Miami.................................................................... 17 Hays lf 5 1 1 1 .301 Haniger rf 4 0 0 0 .226 Rosario lf 5 1 1 4 .256 Rivera 1b 4 0 1 0 .337 Wisdom 3b 4 0 1 0 .208 Crnwrth 2b 3 0 0 0 .200 the third consecutive one-year ex-
Olson, Atlanta.................................................................. 17 Hicks cf 4 1 2 1 .455 Bailey c 4 0 0 0 .280 Albies 2b 5 2 4 2 .257 Rojas 3b 3 0 2 1 .241 Gomes c 4 2 2 1 .271 Kim ss 4 0 0 0 .244
Runs batted in Mntcstle 1b 4 1 1 1 .235 Schmitt ss 4 0 0 0 .295 Ozuna dh 1 0 1 0 .227 McCrthy cf 3 1 0 0 .187 Mancini 1b 4 1 1 1 .247 Carpenter dh 4 0 1 0 .180
tension for the longest-tenured
Alonso, New York.............................................................. 47 Lester 3b 3 0 1 2 .333 Wisely 2b 3 0 1 0 .195 a-Mrphy dh 3 0 0 0 .289 Perdomo ss 4 0 1 1 .279 Amaya dh 3 2 3 2 .375 Rivas 1b 2 0 1 0 .333 manager in team history.
Gorman, St. Louis ............................................................ 44 a-Urías 3b 1 0 0 0 .246 Slater cf 3 0 1 0 .364 Arcia ss 4 0 0 0 .303 Herrera c 3 0 0 0 .231 Morel cf 1 1 0 0 .267 a-Dixon 1 0 0 0 .225
Olson, Atlanta.................................................................. 43 McCann c 2 2 1 1 .195 Totals 31 3 5 3 Harris II cf 3 1 0 0 .168 b-Moreno c 1 0 0 0 .282 Tchman cf 1 0 0 0 .297 Nola c 3 0 1 0 .131 Lovullo is 446-483 in seven sea-
Muncy, DODGERS............................................................. 42 Mateo ss 4 1 2 0 .234 Totals 39 8 14 7 Totals 34 5 8 5 Totals 33 7 11 6 b-Sánchez 1 0 0 0 .278 sons, with one playoff appearance.
Pitching Totals 37 8 10 7 Atlanta 010 200 104 —8 14 0 Totals 32 1 5 1
Arizona 012 200 000 —5 8 1
Lovullo led the Diamondbacks
Keller, Pittsburgh ............................................................. 7-1 Baltimore 006 001 001 —8 10 0 Chicago 142 000 000 —7 11 1
Gallen, Arizona ............................................................... 7-2 San Francisco 000 002 010 —3 5 3 a-grounded out for Ozuna in the 6th. b-struck out for Herrera in San Diego 001 000 000 —1 5 1 to a 2017 National League Division
a-grounded out for Lester in 8th. 1-ran for Santander in 9th. the 8th. a-struck out for Rivas in the 9th. b-flied out for Nola in the 9th. Series in his first season and a win-
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> Walks—Baltimore 3: Hicks 1, Mountcastle 1, McCann 1. San Walks—Atlanta 4: Riley 1, d’Arnaud 1, Ozuna 1, Harris II 1. Arizona Walks—Chicago 3: Happ 1, Morel 2. San Diego 4: Soto 1,
Francisco 3: Wade Jr. 1, Davis 1, Flores 1 Strikeouts—Baltimore 9: 6: Smith 1, Marte 1, Carroll 1, Walker 1, Rojas 1, McCarthy 1. Machado 1, Cronenworth 1, Rivas 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 8: ning record in the next two.
Player G AB H R Avg.
Bichette, Toronto ...............60 258 85 34 .329 Frazier 1, Rutschman 1, Hays 1, Hicks 1, Mountcastle 1, Lester 1, Strikeouts—Atlanta 10: Olson 1, Riley 2, d’Arnaud 1, Rosario 2, Arcia Swanson 2, Suzuki 1, Wisdom 3, Mancini 1, Tauchman 1. San Diego
Yoshida, Boston ................51
Díaz, Tampa Bay................50
198
189
63
59
33 .318
39 .312
McCann 1, Mateo 2. San Francisco 11: Wade Jr. 2, Sabol 2, Haniger
2, Bailey 2, Schmitt 1, Wisely 1, Slater 1 E—Davis (5), Slater (1),
2, Harris II 2. Arizona 8: Carroll 1, Walker 2, Rivera 1, Rojas 1,
Perdomo 2, Moreno 1. E—Herrera (3). LOB—Atlanta 8, Arizona 8.
9: Grisham 2, Soto 1, Machado 1, Cronenworth 1, Kim 2, Carpenter 1,
Dixon 1. E—Hoerner (2), Machado (4). LOB—Chicago 3, San Diego
Etc.
Urshela, ANGELS...............56 200 62 21 .310 Wisely (5). LOB—Baltimore 7, San Francisco 4. 2B—Mateo (8), 2B—Riley (13), Perdomo (9), Carroll (15). HR—Albies (12), off 8. 2B—Hoerner (9), Swanson (13), Rivas (1). HR—Gomes (7), off The Cleveland Guardians des-
Franco, Tampa Bay ............56 223 68 37 .305 Rutschman (8), Davis (9). 3B—Hicks (1). HR—McCann (3), off Junis; Gallen; Rosario (8), off Castro; Carroll (10), off Soroka; Marte (9), off Weathers; Mancini (4), off Weathers; Amaya (1), off Carlton.
Semien, Texas...................58 241 73 54 .303 Sabol (7), off Wells. RBIs—Frazier (24), Hays (24), Mountcastle Soroka. RBIs—Albies 2 (38), Olson (43), Rosario 4 (25), Perdomo RBIs—Gomes (20), Mancini (18), Swanson 2 (26), Amaya 2 (4),
ignated right-handed pitcher Zach
Hays, Baltimore.................53 193 58 29 .301 (39), Lester 2 (2), McCann (6), Hicks (1), Sabol 2 (18), Flores (19). (26), Carroll (25), Rojas (23), Marte 2 (25). SB—Acuña Jr. 2 (26), Soto (27). GIDP—Hoerner, Suzuki, Cronenworth. DP—Chicago 1 Plesac for assignment in the proc-
Merrifield, Toronto..............53 194 58 28 .299 SB—Hays (2), Mateo (16). SF—Frazier. DP—Baltimore 1 (Urías, McCarthy 2 (10). DP—Atlanta 1 (Olson, Arcia); Arizona 2 (Perdomo, (Hoerner, Swanson, Mancini); San Diego 3 (Machado, Cronenworth,
Verdugo, Boston................56 223 66 41 .296 Mateo, Mountcastle). Rivas; Kim, Cronenworth, Rivas; Cronenworth, Kim, Rivas).
ess of returning Triston McKenzie
Rivera; Marte, Perdomo, Rivera).
Greene, Detroit .................52 203 60 29 .296 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA to the rotation Sunday against the
Home runs Wells, W, 4-2 .............51⁄3 4 2 2 2 9 102 3.29 Soroka......................32⁄3 7 5 5 4 2 80 8.38 Stroman, W, 6-4 ...........6 4 1 0 3 6 84 2.39
Judge, New York............................................................... 19 Baumann ..................12⁄3 0 1 1 1 1 28 4.26 McHugh ....................11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 27 3.18 Merryweather ...............1 1 0 0 0 1 18 4.12 Minnesota Twins. ... Tampa Bay
Álvarez, Houston .............................................................. 15 Cano ..........................1 1 0 0 0 0 9 0.87 Smith-Shawver ...........21⁄3 0 0 0 1 3 39 0.00 Fulmer ........................1 0 0 0 1 1 15 6.66 Rays shortstop Wander Franco
Ohtani, ANGELS ............................................................... 15 Voth............................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 4.55 Minter, W, 3-5..............2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 10 6.49 Hughes .......................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 4.15
García, Texas ................................................................... 14 San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Iglesias, S, 7-8 .............1 0 0 0 1 0 10 3.09 San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA was out of the lineup against the
DeSclafani, L, 4-5.........3 5 6 5 3 2 68 3.97 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Weathers, L, 1-4.........12⁄3 7 5 5 1 1 44 5.35 Boston Red Sox because of a sore
Runs batted in Junis...........................3 3 1 1 0 3 45 3.86 Gallen.........................6 9 3 2 1 6 110 2.75 Carlton .....................31⁄3 3 2 2 1 4 56 2.31
Álvarez, Houston .............................................................. 51 Walker ........................1 0 0 0 0 2 13 1.17 Chafin, H, 7 .................1 2 1 1 1 2 26 3.38 Tapia ..........................3 1 0 0 1 2 37 2.76 left hamstring. ... The Red Sox put
García, Texas ................................................................... 51 Ta.Rogers.....................1 1 0 0 0 2 12 3.72 McGough, H, 11 ...........1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.23 Cosgrove .....................1 0 0 0 0 1 15 0.00
Devers, Boston ................................................................ 49 Jackson.......................1 1 1 0 0 0 19 0.00 Castro, L, 3-2, BS, 6-8 .. 2⁄3 2 4 4 2 1 19 3.46 Inherited runners-scored—Carlton 1-0. HBP—Cosgrove
left-hander Joely Rodriguez on
Pitching HBP—DeSclafani (McCann). Adams........................1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 7 2.08 (Amaya). the 15-day injured list because of
McClanahan, Tampa Bay .................................................. 8-1 U—Jerry Layne, Adam Hamari, Nick Mahrley, Vic Carapazza. IBB—by Castro (Riley). WP—Soroka, Gallen. U—Shane Livensparger, Phil Cuzzi, Ryan Wills, Mark Ripperger.
Eovaldi, Texas ................................................................. 8-2 T—2:37. Tickets sold—35,571 (41,915). U—Brian Knight, Alex Tosi, Tony Randazzo, Todd Tichenor. T—3:13. T—2:30. Tickets sold—44,811 (40,222).
left shoulder inflammation.
Cole, New York................................................................ 7-0 Tickets sold—32,401 (48,359). — associated press
L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
Ohtani points Angels in winning direction
Slugger doubles in the
go-ahead run in eighth
to help the team stop
its three-game slide.
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HOUSTON — Shohei
Ohtani hit a tiebreaking RBI
double in the eighth inning,
and the Angels edged the
Houston Astros 2-1 on Sun-
day to avoid a four-game se-
ries sweep.
Ohtani was hitless before
clubbing a pitch from Phil
Maton (0-1) off the wall in
right field, driving in Zach
Neto for a 2-1 lead. The
clutch swing gave Ohtani
41 RBIs this season.
“Just a really good at-bat
understanding what the
pitcher is trying to do,” An-
gels manager Phil Nevin
said. “Maton is one of the
toughest against a lefty in all
of baseball. ... It worked out
for us.”
Graterol has some moves that get him in trouble
The Dodgers’ athletic
265-pound reliever’s
overconfidence has
at times resulted
in costly errors.
By Mike DiGiovanna
When Brusdar Graterol
looks in the mirror, you’d
swear he sees Omar Vizquel
— not because there is any
physical resemblance be-
tween the 6-foot-1, 265-
pound Dodgers reliever and
the 5-9, 180-pound shortstop
and 11-time Gold Glove
Award winner, but because
Graterol fancies himself a
defender capable of making
jaw-dropping plays.
This is not necessarily a
good thing. Graterol, de-
spite his burly physique, is
one of the best athletes on
the team, said assistant
pitching coach Connor
McGuiness, who suggested
the right-hander would con-
tend for a Gold Glove if he
were a starting pitcher.
But Graterol’s confi-
dence in his fielding abilities
crossed the line into over-
confidence in his last two ap-
pearances, resulting in a
pair of throwing errors that
were costly in Sunday
night’s 4-1 loss to the New
Miller shows he could be budding star in loss
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lating same — even if the
Dodgers couldn’t capitalize
upon it in a frustrating 4-1
loss at Chavez Ravine.
Miller tossed six shutout
innings against the Yankees’
high-powered offense, albe-
it, one playing without Judge
because of foot soreness
from his Saturday catch.
He rode a dominant com-
bination of sinkers and slid-
ers to seven strikeouts and 14
swings and misses on 86
pitches.
And, despite the team’s
rubber-match defeat, he fur-
ther hinted at breakout-star
status, becoming just the
franchise’s second pitcher
since 1901 to begin his big
league career with three
starts of at least five innings
and no more than one run
given up, according to MLB-
.com.
“It felt really good,” said
Miller, who noted he threw
his slider, which was his best
pitch Sunday, “harder” and
“a little bit tighter” than he
had in his previous two
starts.
“I was kind of leaning
toward that today,” Miller
said. “Didn’t really need my
other two [breaking]
pitches.”
Unlike the other Dodger
to begin his career with such
a stellar three-game intro-
duction — veteran Japanese
pitcher Kenta Maeda in 2016
— Miller was expected to
look much more raw early
on.
He only reached triple A
at the end of last season,
then missed the first month
of this season because of
shoulder troubles during
spring training.
To this point, though, he
has passed each of his initial
major league tests with fly-
Luis Rengifo hit his third
homer of the season for the
Angels, who stopped a three-
game slide.
“He’s really swinging it
well,” Nevin said. “Three hits
last night and a big home
run today. To me, he’s been
very selective, swinging at
the right pitches and got the
good part of the barrel on
one today.”
Chris Devenski (3-0)
pitched 12⁄3 scoreless innings
for the win against his first
major league team, and Car-
los Estévez got four outs for
his 14th save this season.
“Everyone did what they
had to do, and it feels good to
get a team win like this and
playing really well like this
against the Astros,” Estévez
said. “That’s pretty cool.”
Yainer Díaz homered for
Houston, and Alex Bregman
also had two hits, extending
his hitting streak to 11 games.
Díaz’s leadoff drive in the
fifth against Griffin Canning
put the Astros in front. But
Rengifo went deep in the
sixth for the Angels’ first hit
of the game against J.P.
France.
BOBBY MILLER’S strong six innings went for
naught after Brusdar Graterol relieved him.
York Yankees and Wednes-
day’s 10-6 loss to the Wash-
ington Nationals.
Graterol replaced domi-
nant starter Bobby Miller in
the seventh inning of a
scoreless game Sunday
night, and after striking out
DJ LeMahieu, he gave up a
single to Jake Bauers.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa
dropped a bunt toward third
base that Graterol grabbed
as his momentum took him
toward the line. Freddie
Freeman charged from first
base, and second baseman
Miguel Vargas wasn’t even
near the first-base bag to
MIGUEL VARGAS can’t tag Isiah Kiner-Falefa as the Yankee reaches on a
throwing error, one of several mistakes by the Dodgers in the series-losing game.
ing colors.
“I feel like I’ve been
ready,” Miller said, despite
his eight career triple-A
starts. “But executing all my
pitches, staying composed
out there is going to show
them I’m ready.”
Roberts concurred.
“Man, he’s really im-
pressed,” the manager said.
“I can’t say enough about
what Bobby’s done for us.”
Unfortunately for the
Dodgers (35-25), there was
plenty more for Roberts to
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“It was just one of those
things,” France said. “It
wasn’t a great pitch, he put a
good swing on it. But after
that, just cleared it and de-
cided to keep on rolling.”
Canning gave up four
hits, struck out four and
walked one in six innings. It
was his fourth consecutive
start of giving up three or
fewer runs.
“After the first three
games, you want to try and
put a stop to things,” Can-
ning said. “It was nice to go
out there, just on a really
good page with [Matt]
Thaiss behind the plate, and
then some timely hitting, ob-
viously, and then the bullpen
came in and shut it down.”
France pitched a career-
best seven innings in his
sixth major league start. He
yielded three hits, struck out
three and walked one.
“He was throwing quality
pitches all day, and also that
was the furthest he’s gone
for us,” Astros manager
Dusty Baker said. “You hate
to waste that pitching per-
formance, but their guy was
pretty good too.”
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field a throw.
But that didn’t deter
Graterol, who hopped once
on his back foot and fired an
off-balance throw to no one
that sailed into right field, al-
lowing the Yankees to put
runners on second and
third.
No. 8 batter Kyle Higash-
ioka, with the infield in, fol-
lowed with a broken-bat
grounder to shortstop Chris
Taylor to score Bauers, who
got a great jump from third
and was running on contact,
to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
Graterol struck out An-
thony Volpe to end the in-
address postgame, after the
team dropped its third se-
ries out of five, and 10th con-
test of its last 18, in a game
decided after Miller exited in
the sixth.
Knowing he had his top
three relievers fresh — Brus-
dar Graterol, Evan Phillips
and Caleb Ferguson had all
yet to pitch in the series —
Roberts put his trust in his
bullpen down the stretch.
However, the Yankees
(36-25) instead tagged each
of them with runs.
SHOHEI OHTANI hit a tiebreaking RBI double in
the eighth inning, and the Angels prevented a sweep.
ning.
“He’s just so athletic, and
he’s such a good defender,
but clearly, you can’t make
every single play,” Dodgers
manager Dave Roberts said
of Graterol. “That’s a play
where you just have to eat
the ball. You’ve got eight,
nine [hitters] coming up, it’s
a clean inning. But when you
start giving away bases, you
create stress, and that’s
what happens.”
The mistake was almost
a carbon copy of the one
Graterol made after enter-
ing Wednesday’s game
against the Nationals in the
seventh inning with the
score tied 5-5.
Graterol, who has a
1.82 ERA in 26 games, hit
Keibert Ruiz with his first
pitch, bobbled a C.J. Abrams
grounder to his left and
made an ill-advised, off-bal-
ance throw to second that
bounced into the outfield,
putting runners on second
and third with no outs.
Graterol nearly escaped
the jam by getting two outs,
but he left an 0-and-2 slider
up and in to Luis Garcia,
who drove a three-run ho-
mer to right field for an 8-5
Nationals lead.
Sunday’s mistake, like
Wednesday’s, was more a
mental error than a physical
one.
“Yeah, there's just some
Ashley Landis Associated Press
Graterol was punished
for an overzealous throwing
error in the seventh, setting
up the game’s first score
with an ill-advised, off-bal-
anced toss after fielding a
one-out bunt.
Phillips faltered for just
the second time in 18 appear-
ances, giving up a walk, dou-
ble and RBI grounder in the
top of the eighth that ne-
gated J.D. Martinez’s score-
tying solo home run — the
Dodgers’ lone offense
against Yankees starter Do-
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David J. Phillip Associated Press
times where you don't think
things through, and you're
trying to make a play that
you shouldn't be making,”
Graterol, speaking through
an interpreter, said after
Sunday night’s game. “And
that's just one of those times
where you're not thinking
clearly.”
Graterol’s shaky outing
was the first of three by the
team’s top three relievers.
Right-hander Evan Phillips,
who gave up one earned run
in 17 2⁄3 innings of his previ-
ous 17 games, walked An-
thony Rizzo with one out in
the eighth, then gave up a
double to Giancarlo Stanton
and an RBI groundout to
Oswaldo Cabrera for a 2-1
Yankees lead.
Left-hander Caleb Fer-
guson, who entered with a
1.35 ERA in 23 games and
hadn’t allowed an earned
run in 12 1⁄3 innings of his pre-
vious 15 games, walked
Kiner-Falefa in the ninth
and gave up a two-out, two-
run homer to Volpe that
pushed New York’s lead to
4-1.
“It was as fresh as our
bullpen is probably going to
be this year with all three lev-
erage guys,” Roberts said.
“With the pitching perform-
ance we had from the start-
er, you’d like to think you can
win that game, but that’s
why you play nine.”
mingo Germán — a half-in-
ning earlier.
Ferguson yielded the
knockout blow in the top of
the ninth, throwing a fast-
ball down the middle that
Anthony Volpe launched for
a gut-punch two-run homer.
And in between all that,
there were other small mis-
takes that doomed the Dod-
gers, such as Miguel Vargas
being caught stealing in the
fifth; Will Smith getting
picked off in the ninth; and
Chris Taylor striking out
with the potential go-ahead
runners on base in the sev-
enth, taking three called
strikes after being left in the
game to face Yankees closer
Clay Holmes in a right-on-
right matchup.
“Today wasn’t a good
game for us,” Roberts said.
“There’s a lot of things we
did as far as giving up outs.”
Miller’s performance,
though, offered at least one
silver lining, highlighting the
ever-promising potential in
his future with yet another
dazzling start.
“This is the most adrena-
line he’s probably ever felt,
the biggest game for him [of
his career],” Roberts said.
“And he just handled it so
well.”
DeLuca called up
Dodgers prospect and
Agoura High product Jonny
DeLuca was called up to re-
place outfielder Trayce
Thompson, who Roberts
said will be sidelined at least
a month with a left strained
oblique.
DeLuca, 24, is a former
25th-round draft pick who
had impressed at the double
and triple-A levels this sea-
son after being protected
from the Rule 5 draft over
the offseason.
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Pitching
guru Craig
positively
influential
Ex-Giants manager,
who was a Dodger for
seven years, dies at 93.
By Keith Thursby
Roger Craig, a well-trav-
eled major league baseball
player and coach who be-
came a pitching guru in the
1980s teaching the merits of
the split-fingered fastball,
has died.
The San Francisco Gi-
ants announced Craig’s
death Sunday. He was 93.
He was the pitching
coach of a dominating De-
troit Tigers team that won
the World Series in 1984, then
continued teaching the
split-finger as manager of
the San Francisco Giants,
who won a division title in
1987 and reached the World
Series in 1989. A right-
hander, Craig was in four
World Series during a 12-
year career, including seven
seasons with the Dodgers in
Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
Pitchers threw a split-fin-
ger by gripping the ball with
their index and middle fin-
gers. The result was “a fast-
ball that you put an extra
spin on it so that it drops
down in front of the batter so
fast he don’t know where it’s
goin’, ” Craig explained to
Playboy magazine in a 1988
interview.
The success of Craig’s
students, a mixture of stars
and journeymen, turned the
pitch into a phenomenon.
Roger Lee Craig was born
Feb. 17, 1930, in Durham, N.C.
He said he was discovered by
baseball scouts in 1949, his
senior year in high school,
when he filled in for a top
prospect who was hurt. The
6-foot-4 Craig went to North
Carolina State to play
basketball but quit in 1950 to
sign with the Dodgers.
Craig reached the majors
in 1955 and pitched with the
Dodgers, New York Mets,
St. Louis Cardinals, Cincin-
nati Reds and Philadelphia
Phillies until 1966. He started
the Dodgers’ last game in
Brooklyn and was a key
pitcher down the stretch in
their first Los Angeles World
Series title in 1959.
Craig coached with the
San Diego Padres and Hous-
ton Astros and was a minor
league manager for the Dod-
gers before getting his first
managing job with the Pa-
dres in 1978. He was let go af-
ter two seasons but wasn’t
out of baseball long. Man-
ager Sparky Anderson, who
like Craig grew up in the
Dodgers’ system and
coached with him on the Pa-
dres in 1969, hired him as
pitching coach in Detroit.
“The man is a genius,”
Anderson told Sports Illus-
trated in 1984. “He’s so opti-
mistic, he could find good in
a tornado.”
Craig retired after the Ti-
gers won the World Series in
1984 but was hired as Giants’
manager to finish out the
1985 season. It took Craig
two seasons to turn the Gi-
ants from a team that lost
100 games in 1985 into the
West Division champions.
They won the National
League pennant in 1989 but
lost to the Oakland A’s in a
World Series. He was fired
after the 1992 season.
“I’ll never forget Roger’s
first day in spring training
[in 1986],” Al Rosen, the
team’s general manager,
told The Times in 1987. “He
started telling these guys ...
he could see a championship
in their future. A lot of guys
had heard this before but by
the end ... everyone was sit-
ting up and listening to him.
It was pretty impressive.”
Thursby is a former Times
editor.
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ROGER CRAIG , right,
poses with Whitey Ford
before a game in 1956.
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when his brake rotor let go tight and short for the series.
with five laps remaining. “It was a lot better than I ex-
There also were two red flags pected,” said Palou, who
to go with a two-hour won his second race in less
weather delay that caused than a month and the sixth
the mid-afternoon race to of his caeer.
finish in the twilight. The Spaniard, who won
With the floodlights com- the Indianapolis Grand
ing on around the speedway, Prix, led 74 of 100 laps on De-
Busch got a big push from troit’s new street circuit and
Denny Hamlin on the final went ahead for the last time
restart — the fifth over the on Lap 77. He stayed in front
last 40-some laps — and after Will Power made a
pulled away for his third vic- move that didn’t pan out as
tory of the season for Rich- he made contact with Scott
ard Childress Racing. Dixon on Lap 91.
“Our short-track stuff After a seventh yellow
has been a struggle this year. flag, Palou pulled away in his
We knew we really wanted to Honda with five laps left and
come out here and set a fo- beat Power’s Chevrolet by
cus on running at a shorter 1.1843 seconds. Flex Rosen-
track,” said Busch, whose qvist finished third, followed
other triumphs this year by Scott Dixon and Alexan-
came at Talladega and in der Rossi.
Fontana. The start was waved off
“I felt like this was a good because there wasn’t
precursor to what we have enough space between cars.
coming for the rest of the When the race resumed on
year,” Busch said. the second lap going into
The victory was espe- Turn 3, Callum Ilott dam-
cially gratifying for Busch’s aged Kyle Kirkwood’s wing
crew chief, Randall Burnett, by running into him in the Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
who not only produced a car middle of the 27-car pack. AARON LONG , right, of LAFC battles for position and for the ball with León’s Lucas Di Yorio in the first half
fast enough to win the pole in of Sunday’s Champions League second leg at BMO Stadium. LAFC had minimal offense in a shutout loss.
his hometown but also made
Verstappen takes

LAFC shut out at home in final

all the right calls Sunday.
Burnett hails from Spanish GP title
nearby Fenton, Mo., and had Max Verstappen of Red
plenty of friends and family Bull won the Spanish Grand
in a sellout crowd of about Prix from the pole position
60,000 on a brutally hot day. to strengthen his hold on the [LAFC, from D1] “And in the right mo- “Our left side kind of fell goals in eight games, drilled
Hamlin finished second, Formula One champi- jettisoned the fluid attack- ments, they were a little bit asleep and lost track of a a left-footed shot into the
while Joey Logano, the win- onship. ing style his team has used to better.” player. It’s really that sim- side netting.
ner a year ago in the Cup Se- The two-time defending great success the last two León made LAFC pay for ple,” Cherundolo said. Then in stoppage time,
ries debut at the track, got champion was never chal- seasons. After being puni- the switch in strategy in the On the other end, LAFC, Timothy Tillman one-hop-
around Kyle Larson on the lenged on the Circuit de Bar- shed by León’s speed and 20th minute, catching Pala- which hadn’t been held ped a header right at León
final lap for third. celona-Catalunya in Mont- wide play in the first leg, cios playing narrow and up scoreless in the tournament, goalkeeper Rodolfo Cota,
Martin Truex Jr. rounded melo after beating Carlos Cherundolo made five line- the field to score the game’s misfired on its two best first- leaving Cherundolo and his
out the top five ahead of Sainz’s Ferrari to the first up changes for the second, only goal on a counterattack. half chances, with Aaron players to congratulate their
Ryan Blaney, last week’s turn. choosing to defend with a The sequence began with Long heading a Carlos Vela opponent while conceding
winner at Charlotte. Verstappen’s Red Bull five-man back line, releasing a low through ball from An- free kick just wide of the left nothing.
“Long day for sure,” teammate Sergio Pérez, who the two outside backs — Di- gel Mena in the middle of the post in the 11th minute and His team, he said, had
Logano said. “There were finished fourth, has won the ego Palacios and Sergi Pa- LAFC half that found Ivan Kellyn Acosta rolling a left- learned a lesson — one that
four or five cars that were other two races this year. lencia — to roam forward in Moreno with loads of open footed shot wide of the other will make it that much
just better than us. We made The Dutchman grew his the attack. space on the right wing. post in the 41st minute. tougher to beat when it gets
some good adjustments at lead over Pérez to 55 points. “[We wanted] just a little Moreno dribbled to the edge By the hour mark, back to the CCL final.
the end, and we were in the “It is a big pleasure to more control of the game of the penalty area before de- Cherundolo was so desper- “From my experiences in
hunt.” drive a car like this, and it and to defend a little better livering a cross to Di Yorio on ate for offense he subbed off this game as a player, the
It was a long day for showed on a day like this,” and to create a little more on the other side of the box and Vela, his captain, for rookie higher up you go, the higher
Corey LaJoie, who filled in Verstappen said. “Hopefully the flanks,” Cherundolo said the Argentine forward did Stipe Biuk. It didn’t make the level is, the less chances
for Chase Elliott in the No. 9 we can keep it up through- of his strategy. “It could have the rest, spinning to his right much of a difference, with you get,” the coach said. “We
car for Hendrick Motor- out the year.” worked out beautifully. But to avoid defenders and one- LAFC’s best look coming in did a good job of minimizing
sports and spent most of the Lewis Hamilton crossed this game, it’s not about tac- timing a right-footed shot off the 80th minute when Denis their chances. But again, it’s
day near the back before fin- the finish line second in his tics. It’s about moments and the hands of LAFC goal- Bouanga, the tournament’s a soft goal that was very easy
ishing 21st. Mercedes to equal his best mentality. keeper John McCarthy. leading scorer with seven to defend and we fell asleep.”
Elliott was suspended for finish of the season.
the race for intentionally

Vela looks slow, uninspired, finished

wrecking Hamlin last week.
NHRA postponed
It also was a long day for
everyone on pit stands. until Monday
There were some technical The New England Na-
issues that not only pre- tionals in Epping, N.H. were [Hernández, from D1]
vented them from having postponed until Monday he looked like it.
communication with teams morning because of wet He launched a free kick
back at their shop but also weather. that sailed high over the
crossbar and into the
stands. He blasted another
that crashed into León’s
defensive wall.
He was equally ineffec-
tive in the run of play, his
diminished reflexes pre-
venting him from dribbling
by León’s defenders or even
sneaking passes by them.
He didn’t take a single
shot on target.
“Carlos wasn’t impacting
on the game at the mo-
ment,” coach Steve Cherun-
dolo said of Vela’s 64th-
minute substitution.
Once the most feared
attacker in this part of the Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
world, Vela was as invisible LAFC FORWARD Denis Bouanga (99) and León defender William Tesillo (6)
Sunday as he was in a 2-1 plead their cases to the referee during León’s 1-0 victory at BMO Stadium.
first-leg defeat four days
earlier. in Mexico, or even retiring.” unusually specific cost Galaxy, Chicago Fire, To-
Jeff Roberson Associated Press Four years removed from Like Clayton Kershaw on controls, giving one of three ronto FC and Inter Miami
KYLE BUSCH picked up his third victory of the the greatest individual the Dodgers, Vela remains a designated-player slots to have also invested heavily in
season to go with triumphs at Talladega and Fontana. season in Major League useful player to LAFC. In 12 Vela would be soccer sui- their rosters but not wisely,
Soccer history, he was prac- regular-season matches cide. turning themselves into
tically reduced to the role of this year, he has four goals Vela was the ideal choice circuses. Some of the
AUTO RACING RESULTS spectator in the most im- and five assists. to be LAFC’s first-ever league’s other successful
portant game in LAFC Vela is also still one of player. He wasn’t just a teams — the Philadelphia
NASCAR Dixon, 100, Running. 5. Alexander Rossi, 100, Running. history. MLS’s most popular play- Mexican player in a Mexican Union, in particular, come to
Cup Series 6. Kyle Kirkwood 100, Running. 7. Scott McLaughlin,
Enjoy Illinois 300 100, Running. 8. Marcus Armstrong, 100, Running. 9. Vela looked slow. ers, his jersey the best- American city. He was also a mind — have won games by
At Madison, Ill. Marcus Ericsson, 100, Running. 10. Josef Newgarden, He looked uninspired. selling on the league’s online legitimate world-class tal- adopting unattractive and
World Wide Technology Raceway 100, Running.
Track: 1.25-miles 11. Colton Herta, 100, Running. 12. Devlin De- He looked finished. store as of last month. ent. cynical styles of play.
1. Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 243 laps, 59 points. 2. Francesco, 100, Running. 13. Simon Pagenaud, 100, Vela’s contract expires at But the Mexican at- About the only potential LAFC showed what an
Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 243, 51. 3. Joey Logano, Ford, Running. 14. Agustin Canapino, 100, Running. 15. Conor
243, 44. 4. Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 243, 34. 5. Martin Daly, 100, Running. 16. Christian Lundgaard, 100, Run- the end of the current MLS tacker is on a contract that drawback was his reported MLS team could do if it was
Truex Jr, Toyota, 243, 39. 6. Ryan Blaney, Ford, 243, 50. ning. 17. Jack Harvey, 100, Running. 18. Rinus VeeKay, season, and LAFC will now guarantees him $3.3 million apathy, a notion he quickly as smart as it was ambi-
7. Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 243, 37. 8. William Byron, 100, Running. 19. Helio Castroneves, 100, Running. 20.
Chevrolet, 243, 40. 9. Michael McDowell, Ford, 243, 28. Benjamin Pedersen, 97, Running. have to decide what to do this year. MLS roster rules dispelled with his play on tious. Vela was a major part
10. Kevin Harvick, Ford, 243, 35. 11. Christopher Bell, FORMULA ONE with the player around permit teams to carry only the field. He scored. He of that.
Toyota, 243, 26. 12. Chris Buescher, Ford, 243, 25. 13.
Austin Cindric, Ford, 243, 26. 14. A.J. Allmendinger,
Spanish Grand Prix whom it built its franchise. three designated players — created for others. He Perhaps LAFC and Vela
At Barcelona, Catalunya Circuit
Chevrolet, 243, 23. 15. Todd Gilliland, Ford, 243, 22. 16. Track: 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) Vela will turn 35 next basically, players who can even tracked back on de- can find a middle ground for
Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 243, 21. 17. Ryan Preece, Ford,
243, 20. 18. Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 243, 19. 19. Aric
1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Racing, 66 March. be paid as much as teams fense. the sake of continuing their
laps, 1:27:57.940, 26 points. 2. Lewis Hamilton, Great
Almirola, Ford, 243, 18. 20. Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 243, 17. Britain, Mercedes, 66, +24.090 seconds, 18. 3. George He was guarded this past want to pay them — and In LAFC’s second sea- partnership. Perhaps Vela
Average Speed of Winner: 87.503 mph. Time of
Race: 3 hours, 28 minutes, 16 seconds. Margin of
Russell, Great Britain, Mercedes, 66, +32.389, 15. 4. week when addressing his Vela is one of them. son, in 2019, Vela scored an can return as a non-desig-
Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Racing, 66, +35.812, 12.
Victory: .517 seconds. Caution Flags: 11 for 67 laps. 5. Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 66, +45.698, 10. 6. future. As a franchise icon who MLS-single-season-record nated player.
Lead Changes: 10 among 5 drivers.
Top 16 in points: 1. Blaney, 495; 2. Byron 482; 3.
Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, 66, +1:03.320, 8. 7. “I am very happy, and I appeals to LAFC’s multicul- 34 goals in 31 games. Last Otherwise, this will likely
Fernando Alonso, Spain, Aston Martin, 66, +1:04.127, 6.
Harvick 473; 4. Truex 472; 5. Chastain 466; 6. Bell 455; 8. Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 66, +1:09.242, 4. 9. enjoy playing for this club,” tural and multilingual fan year, Vela was part of the mark the end of his time
7. Kyle Busch, 451; 8. Hamlin 451; 9. Larson 411; 10.
Reddick 411; 11. Keselowski 403; 12. Logano 401; 13.
Guanyu Zhou, China, Alfa Romeo Racing, 66, +1:11.878, Vela said in Spanish. “In this base, a justification can be LAFC team that captured with the team. LAFC hasn’t
2. 10. Pierre Gasly, France, Alpine, 66, +1:13.530, 1.
Buescher 393; 14. Stenhouse 368 15. Wallace, 334; 16.
STANDINGS: 1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red
business, we know anything made for him to retain that the franchise’s first MLS become what it’s become by
Suarez 313.
Bull Racing, 170 points. 2. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull can happen. We must al- designation beyond this Cup. being sentimental or mak-
INDYCAR Racing, 117. 3. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Aston Martin,
Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix 99. 4. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Mercedes, 87. 5.
ways be open and willing to season. In its brief history, LAFC ing major mistakes, and
At Detroit George Russell, Great Britain, Mercedes, 65. 6. Carlos listen to whatever may be For what Vela provides has distinguished itself paying Vela millions of
Track: Streets of Detroit, 1.7-miles Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 58. 7. Charles Leclerc, Monaco,
(All cars Dallara chasiss) Ferrari, 42. 8. Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, 35. 9.
the best option and decide on the field, no such argu- from other MLS teams by dollars beyond this
1. Alex Palou, 100 laps, Running. 2. Will Power, 100, Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 25. 10. Pierre Gasly, what is best for my family ment can be made. In a combining style with sub- season would be a major
Running. 3. Felix Rosenqvist, 100, Running. 4. Scott France, Alpine, 15.
and me, whether it is here or salary-cap league with stance. Teams such as the mistake.

CALENDAR M O N D AY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 2 3 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R
All his scary dreams
Horror fan Rob Savage brings Stephen King’s ‘The Boogeyman’ to life
ours before hopping a
H red-eye from Los Angeles
to London to promote
the biggest film of his
career, one of horror’s
fastest-rising filmmakers is too busy
waxing ecstatic over his love of scary
movies to worry about making it to the
airport on time.
Why horror? Let “The Boogeyman”
director Rob Savage count the ways.
“There are taboo things that we all
think and feel that we don’t want to talk
about, that in a horror movie you can
dramatize without looking straight in
the eyes,” he says, sipping an old-fash-
Complex story web for a Spider-Woman
Gwen Stacy navigates
a journey of growth
amid the interweaving
‘Spider-Verse’ strands.
By Tracy Brown
Her name is Gwen Stacy.
She was bitten by a radio-
active spider. And since
then, she’s been the one and
only Spider-Woman — at
least in her dimension.
Gwen quickly summariz-
es her origin story in 2018’s
“Spider-Man: Into the Spi-
der-Verse” after displaying
her expert web-slinging abil-
ities to assist a couple of her
fellow Spideys. With her cool
confidence and graceful
[See ‘Spider-Verse,’ E3] PARENT -child issues are faced by Jessica Drew, left, Gwen Stacy and Peter B. Parker with daughter Mayday.
E
DGA
REACHES
DEAL
WITH
STUDIOS
Directors Guild says
three-year contract
includes gains on pay,
streaming residuals.
By Anousha Sakoui
The Directors Guild of
America said it has reached
a “historic deal” with the ma-
jor studios on a new three-
year film and TV contract.
In a statement, the DGA
negotiating committee said
that it reached a tentative
agreement with the Alliance
of Motion Picture and Tele-
vision Producers that in-
cludes wage increases, a new
structure to pay foreign re-
siduals — which had been a
key priority for the union —
and restrictions on the use of
AI.
“We have concluded a
truly historic deal,” said Jon
Avnet, chair of the DGA’s ne-
gotiations committee in a
statement. “It provides sig-
nificant improvements for
every director, assistant di-
rector, unit production man-
ager, associate director and
stage manager in our guild.
In these negotiations we
made advances on wages,
streaming residuals, safety,
creative rights and diversity,
as well as securing essential
protections for our mem-
bers on new key issues like
artificial intelligence — en-
suring DGA members will
not be replaced by techno-
logical advances.”
The DGA, whose current
contract is set to expire June
30, began talks May 10. The
union represents 19,000 di-
rectors and their teams.
The agreement an-
nounced late Saturday night
Ariel Fisher For The Times ends what many had predic-
ted would be contentious ne-
[See DGA, E2]
THEATER REVIEW
Heartfelt,
BY JEN YAMATO
chaotic
ioned at the aptly named Blue Room, reunion
one of his favorite Burbank bars.
In conversation, he ticks off his fa-
vorite auteurs — De Palma, Argento,
Bava, Hitchcock — with encyclopedic
knowledge, recounting how his cin-
ematic obsessions led him to experi-
ment with tricks and techniques — and
‘A Transparent
Musical’ revisits the
Pfefferman family, but
don’t expect great art.
resulted in at least one black eye. (It
CHARLES McNULTY
came from a falling camera, while re-
THEATER CRITIC
creating the stair shot from “Psycho.”)
But Savage’s love affair with the genre is
“Transparent,” the
Patti Perret 20th Century Studios an emotional one too.
groundbreaking Prime
DEATH haunts siblings played by Soph- “The best horror movies make me Video series about a Los An-
ie Thatcher, left, and Vivien Lyra Blair. feel really seen,” he smiles. In his youth, geles Jewish family after its
Director Rob Savage, top, loves frights. he aspired to be [See Savage, E6] patriarch comes out as
transgender, came to an un-
expected and, for fans like
myself, disappointing end-
ing.
After Jeffrey Tambor, the
series’ star who played
Maura Pfefferman, the par-
ent who makes the late-in-
life gender revelation, was
fired from the show after al-
legations of sexual harass-
ment, creator Joey Soloway
decided to bring the series to
a close with a grand musical
finale.
It took me several years
to watch this culminating
episode and several at-
tempts to get through it. I
[See ‘Transparent,’ E6]
‘Ted Lasso’ star
cheers the fans
Hannah Waddingham
shares her reactions
to viewers’ theories on
Tedbecca and more.
Go, Richmond. E2
Comics ................... E4-5
Sony Pictures Animation
Puzzles ...................... E4
E2 MO N DAY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 23 L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R

Hannah Waddingham is just another fan

there. That is so cute, be a dad again, she reminds
The ‘Ted Lasso’ star though! Do you know what I herself how to let love in. But
love about these “Tedbecca I didn’t feel like it was any
shares her reactions to shippers”? It’s all about more than that. Rather
viewers’ conjectures. wanting the fairy princess than the whole, “Oh, she’s
and the prince to find love going to become a mum of
‘It’s about positivity.’ because it makes us all feel the child,” I just feel like it’s
better. Because you want it giving possibilities, you
By Lorena O’Neil for yourself. There’s an know? I quite liked that it
element for us as humans, was quite neutral.
This article contains there’s an animal thing, to
spoilers for the Season 3 want Prince Charming and Yeah and you see them
finale of “Ted Lasso.” Cinderella to end up to- later outside at a party, but
gether. We all have it. I love it’s not like they’re putting
Hannah Waddingham that people try and project her in a wedding gown and
plays the beloved AFC Rich- that onto [Ted and Re- throwing her down the
mond boss Rebecca Welton becca] because it’s about aisle.
on “Ted Lasso,” and as it positivity and hopefulness, I like that nothing went
turns out, she is very similar isn’t it? too far down that road be-
to her devoted fans. cause I think it would have
She too has guesses Would you have wished been contrived perhaps to
about potential spinoffs. that for Rebecca? suddenly have her — I liked
She sees romantic chem- Sometimes, yes, some- the fact that we acknowl-
istry between Ted and Re- times no. I can’t give a de- edged that she has let some-
becca. And she is not ready finitive answer because, yes, thing in that is different
for the series to end. The I think undoubtedly they’re from that which we’ve seen
British actor also has a soul mates. Does it have to her around before now.
strong opinion about be sexual? Absolutely not This season was all
whether Keeley Jones (Juno necessarily. Is there chem- about finding sunshine for
Temple), her friend and istry beyond friendship? Rebecca. Past the bit, which
mentee on the show, should Yes, I think they do have I loved actually, the bit with
have ended up with Roy Photographs by Colin Hutton Apple that as well, just from the Tish the clairvoyant.
Kent (Brett Goldstein) or JASON SUDEIKIS is the titular coach to Hannah Waddingham’s team owner. way they kind of play with
Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster). each other. But I liked the Oh, right, did all of that
Waddingham won an way it was left, that in that stuff with the lightning and
Emmy in 2021 for her sup- moment, that man needed matchbook get closed out?
porting role as the com- ‘Ted Lasso’ to go home to his boy. I Well, of course, the light-
manding yet vulnerable Re- understand that, being a ning is the Dutchman crash-
becca. In the series, her single mum; nothing ing back into her life. I think
character, fresh off a devas- Where: Apple TV+ trumps my baby. Of course, the green matchbook was
tating divorce from billion- When: Anytime so I quite like that. You do taking her back to Sam for
aire Rupert Mannion (An- Rated: TV-MA (may be see a sadness in his eyes in her to realize that he wasn’t
thony Head), initially hires unsuitable for children the whole episode. He’s for her, either. I would imag-
Ted Lasso — who had only under the age of 17) made an absolutely defini- ine there will be some dis-
ever coached American foot- tive decision. But is it fully course over why wasn’t it all
ball — to tank the team as an joyful? I don’t believe it is. bashed over the head so
act of revenge against her ex, [Goldstein] kind of look like And I think that’s much much, but the beauty of our
who loved the soccer club. each other and I’m like, “Oh, more compelling. writers is they don’t bash
But instead, she ends up on that just works.” you over the head.
a journey to find happiness I know there’s no certainty It’s kind of up for inter-
and success free of revenge. Yes, I was devastated it that everything is com- pretation and gently done.
Though the soccer come- wasn’t Roy-Keeley pletely over, but I will say I It doesn’t need to be like a
dy has catapulted Wadding- endgame. don’t see Rebecca in Kan- tornado going through her
ham to fame in the U.S., the “TED LASSO’S” Roy (Brett Goldstein), from left, I love the fact that sas. life or someone started a fire
actor has been a musical Keeley (Juno Temple) and Jamie (Phil Dunster). around Keeley, Roy be- I don’t see Rebecca in with a green matchbook. It
theater star for decades, and comes soft and questioning. Kansas. [Laughs.] I’m glad doesn’t need to be that
she has also appeared in Rebecca and Keeley’s young woman again with I find it very funny always I’ve conveyed that over vociferously shown during
“Game of Thrones,” “Sex friendship was such an Matthijs. that — you know, the whole three seasons. the season.
Education” and most re- important tenet of the thing about Ted and Re-
cently starred in “Tom show. They’ve looked to True. I’d spoken with a fan becca? I feel like people have Rebecca is a fan favorite, I was hoping that she
Jones” as Lady Bellaston. each other professionally who’d predicted the just forgotten that he’s been people love her. What is it wouldn’t give up the team
Waddingham chatted and personally. How im- Dutchman would be back schtupping her best mate like to have such a devoted even though in the begin-
with The Times following portant was it for you that at an airport because he’d for three seasons. [Laughs fan base? ning of the series she didn’t
the Season 3 finale of the Ap- they have that moment? had so many planes on his hard.] Oh, my God, if you It’s gorgeous because it really want the team.
ple TV+ series. While Jason I thought it was rather houseboat. lead with that as the open- makes me think that people I love that picture of her
Sudeikis has maintained beautiful and rather fitting Little Easter egg there! ing of this, I’m going to hunt are really lovely at heart. on the front of the news-
that the story he created was that, like you say, to see their you down and headbutt you. They are championing a paper. Jason and I spoke
a three-season arc, there ap- professional and personal There was some intense woman who is middle-aged long and hard about what
peared to be a few doors left lives mixing and using the negative reaction on social Before I talked to Tedbecca and a bit lost and doesn’t kind of energy Rebecca
open on the episode re- very best of both of them. I media with how some of the fans a few weeks ago, I know what the hell she’s should be giving off there.
leased last week. Wadding- think it’s an absolute match plotlines ended. The Ted- really only saw them as doing and is trying really And it’s not hard like, “I’m a
ham talked about the pos- made in heaven. But who becca fans (who wanted friends. bloody hard. And I love the boss bitch of this team.” It
sibilities for Rebecca’s fu- knows? them to become a couple) I don’t know, I think it fact that the people that was, “This is my team.
ture and her fellow charac- I mean, the good thing is felt it was especially cruel could have gone either way love Rebecca must find a Thank you to the fans.
ters in the “Ted Lasso” people keep asking all of us to have the big fake-out really. There is an ambiguity part of themselves in it as Come and join us.”
universe. This interview has cast members aside from scene in the beginning of to it. You can know someone well.
been edited and condensed Sudeikis, “You know what’s the finale with Rebecca in for 10 years and then sud- If you had been the writer
for clarity. happening?” Thankfully all her robe in the kitchen with denly go, “Oh, my God, you In the finale it seems like for the finale is there any-
of us can honestly say no f— Ted. were right here all the time.” she’s accepted her role as thing you would have
Congratulations on a clue. Not a clue at all, which The thing is Jason al- I genuinely don’t know. All I mother for the team and changed?
bittersweet finale. I’m is just as well. ways stands by the fact that do know is, thankfully, Ja- fans. In the airport she tells I wouldn’t have had the
ready for an AFC Rich- he has not adjusted any- son and I have had so much Ted, “I’ll stay with my bloody “Sound of Music”
mond women’s team, are In terms of love, career, life, thing. He has always kept chemistry that it’s made family.” Then minutes thing so early because I
you? was this the arc you always true to the script ideas and everyone question it from later, it’s left open for her to cried my eyes out for the
I didn’t actually know knew would happen for arc that they had in the the get-go. maybe have a stepmom rest of the bloody show from
that — that was an added Rebecca? What were your writers room for this three- role. What are your hopes then onwards. [The team
scene and both myself and feelings when you read the season arc. I think that The Tedbecca fans were for her with the mother- performs “So Long, Fare-
Juno were given that folder script for the finale? maybe people are reading even studying what you hood arc? well” for Ted.] Oh, God, it
— because it’s obviously I knew that the fabulous into something that he had wore, talking about Han- Well, interesting that you killed me that, it really did.
part of the musical montage Matteo van der Grijn who already written. I don’t nah wearing “biscuit box say open for her. I think I actually don’t think so
— so she and I were given plays Matthijs, the know; either way, I found it pink.” that’s the key point for her because I have great respect
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Dave and GaTa meet Drake and Brad
Whoa. The star drop-ins on the season finale of ‘Dave’ are just insane. How did they come about?
MIKAEL WOOD
POP MUSIC CRITIC
The following contains
major spoilers for the
Season 3 finale of “Dave.”
Even by the standards of
a TV show that’s seen high-
profile cameos from the likes
of Justin Bieber, Rick Ross
and Doja Cat, the Season 3
finale of FX’s hip-hop come-
dy “Dave” delivers a wallop.
Two, in fact: Drake and
Brad Pitt.
The former turns up, like
so many before him in the se-
ries loosely based on musi-
cian and actor Dave Burd’s
real-life experiences as the
white rapper Lil Dicky, as a
version of himself — in this
case as he welcomes Dave to
a remote village in West Afri-
ca to work on music after
Dave has left his sort-of-girl-
friend Robyn (Chloe Ben-
net) behind in Los Angeles.
Pitt, meanwhile, is simi-
larly riffing on his movie star
identity, though his role
takes a far more surprising
turn: After making an ap-
pearance in a music video for
Dave’s song about wooing
Rachel McAdams — whom
the real Burd says “was in ev-
ery single piece of film that
portrayed my definition as a
child of what love is” — Pitt
drops by Dave’s house only
to be held hostage and even-
tually shot in the chest by a
crazed, crossbow-wielding
fan played by Tenea In-
triago. (Before he gets taken
out, Pitt memorably hops in
Dave’s recording booth and
discovers the joys of Auto-
Tune.)
Burd and his longtime
hype man, Davionte “GaTa”
Ganter, who plays himself on
“Dave” and who unwittingly
walks into the hostage situa-
tion in the finale, joined a
Zoom call Wednesday morn-
ing to discuss the episode.
These are edited excerpts
from the conversation.
So how’d you get Brad Pitt
in the finale? You slide into
his direct messages?
Burd: He’s not on social
media — you can’t get to him
through DM. I’d heard that
Brad liked the show, and I
ended up getting his email.
Obviously, I took a big risk
writing an entire episode —
a finale of a season — where
he’s, like, the main charac-
ter. People in our writers
room were like, “Man, seems
a little reckless to put all
your eggs in this Brad Pitt
basket.” But I believed.
Brad, Rachel, Drake — all
these people do the show for
no other reason than the
fact that they love and re-
Spider-Gwen spins her own tale
[‘Spider-Verse,’ from E1]
moves — not to mention her
sleek, hooded costume — she
makes being a superhero
look like a breeze. And she
definitely makes a big im-
pression on that film’s new-
est Spider-Man, Miles Mor-
ales. But Gwen’s full story
isn’t as simple as a brief recap
makes it seem. No Spider-
Hero ever has it that easy.
“Spider-Man: Across the
Spider-Verse,” which opened
Friday, offers a closer look at
Gwen and her life back in her
own world. Directed by
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp
Powers and Justin K.
Thompson, the sequel to the
Academy Award-winning
“Into the Spider-Verse” is set
more than a year after Gwen
(voiced by Hailee Steinfeld)
and her fellow dimensionally
displaced Spideys made it
back home after helping
Miles (Shameik Moore) save
the multiverse.
Gwen played a support-
ing role in Miles’ journey to
becoming Spider-Man in
“Into the Spider-Verse.”
“Across the Spider-Verse,”
written by Phil Lord and
Chris Miller and David Call-
aham, is a coming-of-age
story for both teenage super-
heroes. And as much as their
situations are similar — they
are both dealing with the sol-
itude of being the “one and
only” Spideys of their dimen-
sions — they have their own
individual struggles as well.
“One of the main things
that [Gwen’s] dealing with
this time around is her rela-
tionship with her father, and
the sort of shift in [their] dy-
namic,” Steinfeld said. “She’s
becoming her own person
and she’s only ever wanted
that to be someone that her
dad will be proud of.”
The thought that her fa-
ther might disapprove of her
secret life as Spider-Woman
RAPPER Dave Burd, right, plays a version of himself in “Dave” opposite hype man Davionte “GaTa” Ganter.
spect the show. And that’s
just so validating.
GaTa, you clearly knew
Brad Pitt would be in the
scene when your character
first encounters him, but
you still look genuinely
surprised. You call him
“Fight Club.”
GaTa: That was a real,
genuine reaction. I was
juiced up. It’s a big dog in
the game, you know? He was
a pleasure to work with —
very humble guy. Made me
appreciate my situation.
As he lies on the floor with
an arrow through his heart,
Pitt’s character says his
real name is Luke, which
isn’t true in real life. Where
did that come from?
Burd: I love that gag. It was
a late addition. There’s a lot
of wheeling and dealing
going on in the show as far
as rewriting and tweaking
things on the spot. But I
remember I was like, “I wish
this death scene with Brad
had one more big laugh in
it.” And credit to Brad — he
was so game in every phase
of the way. It was honestly
incredible for me as a film-
maker to get entrusted by a
guy like him — giving him
direction and thinking he’s
listening to me the way he’d
listen to Tarantino and the
Coen brothers.
How long was he on set?
Burd: Four days. And we’re
talking, like, this man is
has been “incredibly diffi-
cult” for Gwen, Steinfeld
adds. And, like Miles, Gwen’s
journey in “Across the Spi-
der-Verse” involves figuring
out her place in the world
and how to be true to herself
and what she believes in.
“Everybody has to grow
up a little bit in this movie,”
said Lord, who along with his
filmmaking partner Miller
also served as producer on
“Across the Spider-Verse.”
“Part of growing up is decid-
ing what your values are, and
sometimes those are re-
vealed by affirmative experi-
ences … and sometimes,
there are negative experi-
ences … where you think
you’re doing the right thing
and you realize you were
wrong.”
Parent-child relation-
ships factor into the story-
lines of a majority of the Spi-
der-Heroes in “Across the
Spider-Verse.” Some, like
Gwen and Miles, are trying
to figure out how to deal with
keeping their true selves a se-
cret from their parents, while
others, like Peter B. Parker
(Jake Johnson) and the
newly introduced Jess Drew
(Issa Rae) are navigating
their roles as Spider-Par-
ents.
Gwen’s dilemma is more
complicated than most. In
her dimension, Spider-Wom-
an has been wrongly accused
of murdering her best friend,
Peter Parker, and her father
is leading the police hunt to
arrest her.
“Spider-Man is always
seen as a vigilante in the
comics … but Gwen is quite
literally a fugitive from the
law in her universe,” Powers
said. “I think it was really im-
portant to drop an audience
into that, and into her POV,
to help them understand
why her character is … so
strident, why she is so cau-
shooting until 6 a.m. I was
totally giving him every out:
“Hey, I have this perfect
body double … ,” and he’s
like, “What? Absolutely not.”
How much of his stuff was
improvised?
Burd: Some of it was impro-
vised, some of it was not. All
week he was asking what the
deal was with the Auto-
Tune singing. He was like,
“I’m not a great singer,” and
I’m like, “Brad, it couldn’t
matter less.” I said, “No
matter what you do, it’s
gonna sound perfect be-
cause that’s the technology.”
I made a little demo the
morning of, and he got that
and was listening to it all
day. And there were a few
takes where I was in his ear
— like, “Sing it this way,” and
then he’d sing it that way.
But he was truly the way his
character in the scene was. I
knew I didn’t want to do it in
post. He needed to hear
himself singing in Auto-
Tune and understand, like,
“This s— is f— cool.”
The finale isn’t the only
episode in Season 3 to
address the idea of the
obsessive fan. Why was that
on your mind?
Burd: There’s two big inter-
weaving themes throughout
the season: Dave’s quest for
love and his quest for val-
idation and fame. And
there’s a lot of overlap be-
tween the two. We knew we
wanted to have a fan from
GWEN STACY in web-slinging mode in “Across the
Spider-Verse.” Hailee Steinfeld provides her voice.
tious about friends and re-
lationships.”
This back story, as Lord
points out, originates from
the first pages of her comic
book debut.
The Gwen Stacy who be-
came her dimension’s Spi-
der-Woman first appeared in
2014’s “Edge of Spider-Verse”
No. 2 by writer Jason Latour
and artist Robbi Rodriguez
(with colors by Rico Renzi
and letters by VC’s Clayton
Cowles). The single-issue in-
troduction was among the
lead-ins to a special event
storyline that involved an
army of Spidey variants —
established and new — from
across the Marvel multiverse
teaming up to take on a clan
of supernatural supervil-
lains that has been hunting
them.
The popularity of Gwen’s
incarnation of Spider-Wom-
an — commonly referred to
by readers as Spider-Gwen
and now officially known as
Ghost-Spider — led to the
launch of her own comic
book title, and the Latour
and Rodriguez-led creative
team was reassembled for a
“Spider-Gwen” series that
launched in 2015.
Spider-Gwen is a new
spin on a “Spider-Man” char-
acter who dates back to the
Episode 1 come back in
Episode 10 as, like, a sick,
twisted mirror — take the
traits that are wrong and
hyperbolize them to the nth
degree.
In a very dark way, the fan
— who we see working as a
production assistant on
Dave’s “Mr. McAdams”
video — is striving just like
Dave and GaTa always are.
Burd: I definitely wouldn’t
pull a gun and take it to that
level. But I wanted people to
empathize with this charac-
ter — like, “I could see if
Dave wasn’t a famous rap-
per and he’d gotten time
with Brad Pitt that he might
have put a song on Brad
Pitt’s computer.” I wanted
people to be able to see Dave
doing that, and we wanted
my character to confront
that at its most extreme.
And, man, as great as all the
cameos are, I don’t want to
lose sight of the perform-
ance that Tinea put on in
that role. To be scary but
simultaneously hilarious is
such a skill.
GaTa, in this season’s Epi-
sode 5 your character goes
through a breakdown re-
garding a sex addiction.
Are you happy to be the
show’s emotional center?
GaTa: Definitely. When we
have those scenes where I’m
emotional, it’s usually driven
by my real-life story. People
connect with my upbringing
— not knowing your real
Sony Pictures
1960s. Created by Stan Lee
and Steve Ditko, the original
Gwen Stacy was Peter Park-
er’s girlfriend, who is most
remembered for being killed
when Spider-Man failed to
save her. She was one of the
first female comic book char-
acters whose shocking death
was primarily a way to serve
her male, superhero roman-
tic partner’s story and char-
acter development. On
screen, a version of Gwen ad-
apted from the original in-
carnation and portrayed by
Emma Stone appeared in
“The Amazing Spider-Man”
(2012) and its sequel (2014).
That Gwen suffered the
same fate.
“In every other story
Gwen Stacy has a tragic end-
ing … she dies,” Miller said.
“But in the world where she
gets bitten and Peter
doesn’t, she can’t save Peter,
instead of Peter not being
able to save her. … So you get
to have a whole different lan-
guage with her.”
The “Across the Spider-
Verse” filmmakers took
more than narrative inspira-
tion from the “Spider-Gwen”
comics. The comic book se-
ries, particularly the cover
art by Rodriguez, also
inspired the look of the
film’s Earth-65, Gwen’s
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mom or your real dad. You
got to have those pieces in
the show for people to grab
onto because not only do we
want to make you laugh, we
want to make you cry. We
want to make the hair stand
up. One of my favorite things
to say is, “You see those?
Those are real tears. Those
aren’t menthol drops.”
Burd: He is the emotional
core of the show. And I’m
honored that he lends his
story to the show. The
amount of people that come
up to me and thank me for
putting all the mental
health stuff into the show —
I’m like, “Don’t thank me,
thank GaTa.”
How has the character of
Dave changed or developed
from the beginning of Sea-
son 1 to the end of Season
3?
Burd: This show is a com-
ing-of-age tale about people
who, as cliché as it sounds,
are trying to pursue happi-
ness and the meaning of life.
And I think this season, it
really seems like he’s made a
major step forward — like,
he’s gonna take this experi-
home dimension.
These comic book covers
“are really painterly and
they’re really subjective,”
said Lord. “They’re really idi-
osyncratic, so they don’t nec-
essarily follow a logic of light.
They follow a logic of feeling.”
The filmmakers describe
Earth-65 as a mood ring that
reflects Gwen’s emotions.
The colors and transitions
are “not literal,” with details
that fade in and out depend-
ing on what Gwen is feeling.
Rendering such a “bespoke”
world was an enormous
undertaking that required
the development of new tools
and lots of teamwork. Scenes
set on Earth-65 were one of
the first things the filmmak-
ing team started working on,
and one of the last things to
be completed.
“Gwen [is] going through
these very emotionally deep,
painful things, but there’s
also beauty in all of that,”
Thompson said. “Trying to
find a way to express all that
beauty of what she’s going
through … was an opportuni-
ty for us to tell story at every
single level.”
Earth-65 is objectively
stunning, with its watercol-
or-like hues that drip and
morph in reaction to Gwen.
It’s just one of the ways
“Across the Spider-Verse”
pushes the expressive pos-
sibilities of CG animation,
but it’s more than just spec-
tacle.
“I love that people are
drawn in [to Gwen’s world],”
said Thompson. “But I think
the reason they’re drawn in
isn’t because it’s beautiful.
They’re drawn in because it
helps you understand her.”
Lord and Miller were just
as deliberate when narrow-
ing the roster of the film’s
supporting Spideys. Want-
ing a mentor figure for Gwen
led to the inclusion of Jess, an
alternate Spider-Woman
and expectant mother who
has moved beyond operating
behind the mask. Hobie
Brown (Daniel Kaluuya),
E3
ence [with the stalker] and
go pursue the important
things in life and go to Rob-
yn and leave the career
behind. And it’s a total
curveball that he doesn’t,
and I like that. Not to over-
simplify it, but Season 1 and
Season 2, I kind of did the
right thing. Season 3 we
wanted to be: What if he did
maybe the wrong thing?
Instead of reuniting with
Robyn, Dave goes to Africa
to make music with Drake.
Burd: And I don’t view that
as, like, “F— love, I only care
about being rich and cool
with Drake.” I think it’s also
a form of awareness to say,
“Even though I’m as confi-
dent as I appear, obviously
there’s a huge, gaping hole
inside of me if I have this
endless quest for val-
idation.” Until you fill that
void within yourself, you’re
not ready to take on a rela-
tionship, and I think my
character became aware of
that and let Robyn go be-
cause the other way would
be stringing her along. It’d
be even worse.
Well, he’s also letting her go
because he wants to pursue
Rachel McAdams.
Burd: I feel like one of the
best parts of the season is
how we approach dating
and gender norms and
power. I don’t like to be
preachy or whatever, but
there’s a huge problem in
society with dating. The
power dynamic between
men and women is by de-
fault imbalanced due to
societal structures that have
existed for hundreds of
years that are unfair. And
nowhere is it more extreme
than when a famous guy is
like, “I didn’t get girls grow-
ing up. Now I can get this girl
— oh, but wait, can I get
Rachel McAdams?”
In the scene where every-
thing comes to a head with
Robyn, she says, “Women
aren’t achievements.” And I
think a lot of men date from
that perspective, especially
with online dating, where it’s
like, “I can do better, I can do
better.” My character going
on that journey with his
lifelong dream woman is
representative of that. I
want people to watch and be
like, “Am I like that? Is that
wrong of me?”
Last thing: Dave the char-
acter says the best rapper
alive is Drake. Who do the
two of you pick?
Burd: Drake.
GaTa: Imma say Lil Wayne
because Lil Wayne put
Drake on. Lil Wayne the
greatest of all time.
Gwen’s new ally also known
as Spider-Punk, is a perfect
foil for the rules-and-order-
obsessed Miguel O’Hara
(Oscar Isaac), the leader of
the massive team of Spideys
trying to save the multiverse.
(O’Hara was first shown in
the post-credits scene of
“Into the Spider-Verse.”)
Plus, Hobie “was in-
stantly someone that Miles
could think was cooler than
him and feel threatened by,”
said Miller.
The filmmakers see
Gwen’s arc in “Across the
Spider-Verse” as one that
mirrors Miles’.
“She already was a char-
acter that played everything
really, really close to her
chest,” Dos Santos said.
“She has to learn sort of the
opposite end of what Miles is
going through, [such as] do-
ing things not only to protect
herself, but this other family
that she’s taken in.”
But ultimately, the big-
gest thing Gwen has to figure
out for herself over the
course of this next adventure
is not too different than
Miles’: How to be the truest
version of Spider-Woman
she knows she is meant to be.
“In the first film, we
learned that anyone could
wear the mask,” Steinfeld
said. “This time, it’s about
what you do when that mask
is on and how you wear the
mask. Everybody has a dif-
ferent version of that and
what that looks like.”
‘Spider-Man:
Across the
Spider-Verse’
Running time: 2 hours,
20 minutes
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of animated action
violence, some language
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KENKEN
Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6
puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each
heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the
top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
In a way, the praise you give
others today is self-praise;
you wouldn’t see the quality
if you didn’t have it to some
degree in yourself.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Momentum is hard to
get going and harder to stop.
You won’t regret putting in
the extra effort in the begin-
ning.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
You’re not easily impressed
nor are you concerned with
impressing others. Your lack
of a personal agenda puts
people at ease.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
Group problem-solving has
its own magical dynamic.
This is part of the appeal of a
good mystery, which you’ll
come across today.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
You’ll accept two kinds of
challenges: the sort you are
reasonably sure you can im-
pact, and the type that looks
CROSSWORD
Edited By Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Susan Gelfand
ACROSS
1 Sticky pine product
6 First word of a rhyming
cocktail name
9 Family name in Kafka’s
“The Metamorphosis”
14 Scotch-Brite sponge
15 Like this clue’s number
16 Change, as text
17 *Fleet of government
vehicles
19 Flustered (by)
20 Red Cross supply
21 Philosopher Descartes
23 Alphabet finale
24 Venue
25 *Payment method that
may have a chip
28 Pro vote on the House
floor
29 Blue ink cartridge for a
color printer
30 Storm-tracking device
34 “ER” actor Wyle
37 Barbed __
40 *Media briefing
43 Part of a “Scream”
costume
44 Not in favor of
45 Impeccable
46 Foot soldier
48 Pi follower in the Greek
alphabet
50 *Summertime java
order
54 Engrave deeply
58 Neither’s partner
59 Port or scope prefix
60 Attraction
62 Dodge
64 Living-room lamp
holders, and what the
answers to the starred
clues all have?
66 Like un enfant
67 Pitching superstar
68 “__ are red ... “
69 Deuce toppers
70 Fix a hem, say
71 Not ignoring the alarm
DOWN
1 Frolics
2 Bacteria in undercooked
meat
3 Adjusted to, as a
thermostat
4 “No medals for me this
time”
5 Social standard
like so much fun, it doesn’t
matter.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
This is your day to take a
risk. If you win, great. If you
lose and lose with grace,
even better.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
Something you do today will
give you bragging rights.
Whether you exercise those
rights in the future will be
fully up to you.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
A memory of tranquility can
be a tranquil thing to linger
on, or it can be a contrast
that makes the current cha-
os more apparent.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): If you make a mis-
take, you’ll own up to it.
Light apologies are the an-
swer.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): You’ll come to a point in
which you really don’t know
what to do next, but don’t
fret. Any move will do.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Life often seems inher-
ently unfair. Even so, you’ll
6 __ shu pork
7 Idolize
8 Sat at a light, say
9 The “S” of OSHA
10 Doc’s gp.
11 Theater seating section
12 Disdainful lip curl
13 Tacked on
18 Walk and walk
22 Not mainstream
26 Talked and talked
27 Sounded like a crow
28 Four-digit DOB nos.
30 Tach stat
31 Parseghian of Notre
Dame football fame
32 Willing to take extreme
measures
33 Queried
35 Ottawa’s prov.
36 Blazing
38 Small-screen pioneer
39 Snaky fish
41 Lakeside boat rental
42 Kia subcompact
47 Groups of eight
49 Miami hoopsters
50 Likely to err
51 __ charge: entry fee
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get the feeling that there’s
some other standard in ef-
fect today as disparate el-
ements come together in a
beautiful, unpredictable
balance.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): Each person’s brain is
different. There’s luck for
working with those who
have a different thinking
style from yours.
Today’s birthday (June
5): However old you are in
years, you keep getting
younger and more resilient,
creative and curious. More
highlights: Impulsivity will
send a relationship sailing.
What was once a job will get
transformed into a spiritual
practice, an incredible net-
work and a means for self-
development. Scorpio and
Aquarius adore you. Your
lucky numbers: 4, 7, 20, 19
and 18.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
© 2023 Tribune Content Agency
52 Pests that may prompt
a visit to the vet
53 Yard sticks?
54 Armrest occupier
55 Oklahoma’s second-
largest city
56 Small stream
57 “Siddhartha” novelist
Hermann
61 Croft played by
Angelina Jolie
63 Craft kit letters
65 Morning moisture
ANSWER TO
PREVIOUS PUZZLE
6/5/23
BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
My friend the English
professor says that people
who use wrong words should
have the humidity to admit
it. I could make a similar
comment about declarers
who face several finesses
and try the wrong one first.
Against 3NT, West led the
queen of clubs, and South
won with the king to finesse
in diamonds, his long suit.
East won and had no club to
return, which was just as
well: He led the 10 of hearts,
and West took the king and
returned a heart.
South had eight tricks:
four diamonds, a heart, two
clubs and a spade. He ran
the diamonds, but when he
finessed in spades, West
took the king and led his last
heart, and East took three
ASK AMY
Complex family dynamics
Dear Amy: I come from a
large family, which has a 20-
year gap between siblings.
The oldest sibling was
out of the house when the
youngest was born.
Essentially, our parents
raised two separate families
in different generations.
Both of our parents died
years ago, and a rift became
very apparent.
A few of the older siblings
accused some of the younger
ones of taking advantage of
our parents and tried to turn
the rest of the family against
them. They even went so far
as to try to convince long-
distance relatives.
It did not work.
One sibling’s spouse ap-
pears to have a personal
grudge against a younger
member, and over the years,
letters were written, emails
sent and public comments
made, all against the same
younger family member.
This in-law puts on the
persona of being a good, lov-
ing and honest person, but
most know better.
Now that we are all grow-
ing older, some siblings feel
all should be forgiven. They
want to reunite the family.
A few have stated that
this will not happen, as they
cannot forget the pain of sib-
lings’ false accusations that
they’ve never apologized for.
The trust has been lost
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
FREE RANGE By Bill Whitehead
BLISS By Harry Bliss
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hearts. Down two.
When South finessed in
diamonds first, he risked
losing to East, the “danger-
ous” defender who might
lead a killing heart. South
must win the first club in
dummy and finesse in
spades. West wins, but no re-
turn can hurt South. He will
have time to finesse in dia-
monds and win at least nine
tricks.
This week: “avoidance.”
You hold: ♠ 7 6 2 ♥ Q J
♦ A 8 7 4 3 ♣ A 5 2. Partner
opens one heart, you bid two
diamonds and he rebids two
hearts. What do you say?
Answer: You have two op-
tions. If you judge to commit
to game — and your two aces
and heart honors would
make that view quite rea-
sonable — you might aim
toward 3NT by bidding three
clubs. If you judge to settle
for a few, and doesn’t appear
to be recoverable.
Is it OK to not want a re-
lationship with a sibling if
you believe that person has
betrayed you?
Divided Family
Dear Divided: You are an
adult and you have the right
to have — or not have — a re-
lationship with anyone.
You’re focused on wrongs
done to you and your sib-
lings. No apologies have
been offered for this be-
trayal. But it’s key to under-
stand that unless you come
together as a family in some
way, you’ll miss the opportu-
nity to ask for and perhaps
get the apology you seek.
In short, if you don’t have
a relationship of any kind,
you will never have even the
slightest chance of receiving
an explanation, apology or
reconciliation.
Dear Amy: My brother has
been incarcerated for sev-
eral years for drug offenses.
This has been extremely
painful for our entire family,
but I love him and try to keep
in touch with him.
My wife and I have two
children, 3 and 5. They are
starting to understand vari-
ous family ties and recently
saw a picture of me and my
brother from childhood.
They have started asking
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for a game invitation, raise
to three hearts. Your Q-J of
hearts in support are as
good as three low hearts.
South dealer
N-S vulnerable
NORTH
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about him, and my wife and I
are wondering what to say.
Any suggestions?
Loving Dad
Dear Dad: Children at
these ages are starting to dif-
ferentiate among family
members, and are especially
interested in siblings. Many
young children express
amazement that their par-
ents were ever kids them-
selves, and had siblings.
This is why family photos
and memories are so intrigu-
ing and important to share.
Tell your kids about your
brother, and share positive
memories from your child-
hood. Tell stories of things
you two used to do together.
When they ask where he
is, say, “He broke some im-
portant rules and laws and
got into trouble. He was sent
to jail, and he has to stay
there for a while. I miss him,
but I keep in touch by send-
ing him letters. I’ve told him
about you two and he is ex-
cited to meet you someday.”
(They might like to send him
drawings or letters.)
Answer your children’s
questions, but don’t over-
load them with details. As
they get older you can ex-
pand on your explanations.
Email questions to Amy
Dickinson at askamy@
amydickinson.com.
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E6 MO N DAY , J U N E 5 , 2 0 23
He has met the
‘Boogeyman’
[Savage, from E1]
the next Lynne Ramsay or
Andrea Arnold. Now he’s ea-
ger to play in as many horror
sandboxes as he can before
“AI is directing everything.”
It tracks, then, that the
30-year-old British writer-di-
rector landed on Holly-
wood’s radar by peering
darkly through that same
lens, finding fresh ways into
found footage while tapping
into raw pandemic-era anxi-
eties with 2020’s Zoom se-
ance-gone-wrong hit “Host”
and 2021’s provocative shut-
down pic “Dashcam.”
Now, with his third horror
film in three years, which
opened Friday, Savage tack-
les one of humanity’s most
universal themes: grief.
Stephen King adaptation
“The Boogeyman,” Savage’s
studio directing debut, finds
Sadie (Sophie Thatcher)
and Sawyer (Vivien Lyra
Blair), daughters of ther-
apist Will Harper (Chris
Messina), plagued by a sinis-
ter force while mourning the
recent death of their mother.
King’s original tale ze-
roed in on two characters, a
therapist and his patient
haunted by an evil presence
he blames for the mysterious
deaths of his young children.
Reworking an initial script
by “A Quiet Place” writers
Scott Beck and Bryan
Woods that expanded the
story into a domestic saga,
Savage and “Black Swan”
scribe Mark Heyman shifted
it to rest on the shoulders of
teenage Sadie, who battles
her angst and anguish to
save her broken family.
“My story is in the first 10
or 15 minutes of Rob’s ex-
traordinary movie — a kind
of prologue,” King told The
Times in an email. “It’s a very
short story, originally pub-
lished in ‘Cavalier’ magazine,
a long time ago, and their
word-count requirements
were ironbound — they had
to have plenty of room for
cheesecake photos. I think
they paid me maybe $400.
Rob and the crack writing
team expanded on it with
great success. The family dy-
namic they created would
have been beyond me at age
24. The film is right and tight.
I’m delighted with it.”
Previously set for a Hulu
streaming debut before piv-
oting to a 20th Century the-
atrical release — in part
thanks to King, who gave the
studio a helpful nudge of ap-
proval after watching the
film, Savage notes — “The
Boogeyman” is a classically
wrought domestic night-
mare that plays out in shad-
ows and light, in the liminal
Family
sifts its
history
[‘Transparent,’ from E1]
really didn’t want “Trans-
parent” to end and didn’t
understand why the com-
plex world that was built
over four seasons was being
abruptly ended.
The series may have been
conceived around Tambor’s
Maura, but I found myself in-
creasingly more interested in
the shifting identities of the
three mixed-up adult chil-
dren (played by Amy Lan-
decker, Jay Duplass and
Gaby Hoffmann), who were
profoundly damaged by all
the secrets their family har-
bored.
You’d think that a theater
critic would have been de-
lighted by the idea of a big
musical finish. But I wasn’t
ready to say goodbye, and I
wasn’t assured that the show
— part dark comedy, part
streaming soap opera —
could survive the transfor-
mation of genres.
If you loved the way the
TV series ended, you’ll no
doubt enjoy “A Transparent
Musical,” which is having its
world premiere at the Mark
Taper Forum. Joey Soloway,
continuing the collaboration
with sibling Faith Soloway,
has reassembled the Pfeffer-
man family members in a
stage musical that takes an-
other crack at the material.
The children have been
summoned to their child-
hood Pacific Palisades home
for a brunch, where Maura
(Daya Curley) has a big an-
nouncement to make over
bagels. Struggling to find the
words, Maura resorts to a
song of somber bluntness:
“How to put a name to this /
How to put a frame on this /
terrors of a creaky Craftsman
engulfed in heavy silences.
But don’t lump it into a
trend of “grief horror,” Sav-
age pleads, preempting com-
parisons to the likes of Jenni-
fer Kent’s 2014 “The
Babadook.” “To me the hor-
ror in this movie, the Boogey-
man and everything that it
represents, is more about
communication,” he says.
“It’s about leaning on people
when you’re going through
times of darkness. It is about
grief, but it’s also about how
scary it is to be open, espe-
cially when you’re speaking
to something that’s very dark
and exposing.”
With a reported $35-mil-
lion budget, familiar genre
bones and a PG-13 rating,
“The Boogeyman” may seem
the antithesis of the scrap-
pily inventive and sharp-
edged, low-budget films that
launched Savage’s career.
But he’s been hustling to
break into the movie busi-
ness since making his first
feature for $3,000, a teen
drama that won him a
British Independent Film
Award at age 17.
“I’ve always wanted to
make a movie like this — a
classic roller coaster ride, a
Friday night popcorn horror
movie that plays to a big
crowd,” says Savage, whose
upcoming projects, includ-
ing a collaboration with Sam
Raimi, have him poised for a
big future in mainstream
horror. “That’s been more my
dream than making, like,
‘Hereditary’ or an A24 movie.
I’ve always wanted to make
something that plays like
‘The Conjuring.’ ”
Rewind to the start of
Savage’s origin story and
you’ll find yourself in ver-
dant, rural Shropshire, Eng-
land, near the Welsh border.
There, where Charles Dar-
win was born nearly two cen-
turies prior, the self-de-
scribed young gorehound
grew up around the family
farm with “hippie-dippie veg-
an” parents who strictly
banned sugar, television and
the horror movies that called
to him like forbidden fruit.
“The only thing I wanted
to do was watch the bloodi-
est, nastiest movies I could
get my hands on,” says Sav-
age. “That became my
odyssey — I wanted to eat
McDonald’s, drink Sunny D
and watch ‘The Texas Chain
Saw Massacre.’ ”
Unbeknownst to his par-
ents, he procured a portable
combo VCR-TV and col-
lected VHS tapes from yard
sales and charity shops, es-
pecially keen on the video
nasties of the ’80s — and hid
YOUNGEST child, portrayed by Adina Verson, and Maura, played by Daya Curley.
And claim it for myself / I’m
transgender.”
The score by Faith
Soloway is full of such num-
bers, which are tasked with
either taking care of major
plot points or spelling out
themes in direct language.
The songs often seem closer
to recitative, burdened as
they are with busy lyrics that
seem to be riding generic
background music.
Much as I’m sympathetic
to the inclusive, compassion-
ate vision of “A Transparent
Musical,” I had difficulty see-
ing beyond the short-
comings in musical theater
craft. The upside of inexperi-
ence is fearlessness. But a
naivety lurks behind the ad-
venturousness. If someone
had blindfolded me and
brought me to this produc-
tion, I would have assumed
that I was watching a per-
formance by a talented and
extremely well-funded ama-
teur troupe in residence at
an LGBTQ+ community
center that was inspired by
DIRECTOR Rob Savage: “It is about grief” and “about how scary it is to be open.”
‘The
Boogeyman’
Rated: PG-13 for terror,
violent content, teen drug
use and some strong
language
Running time: 1 hour,
38 minutes
Playing: In general release
his precious stash with
stealthy invention. “I had
VHS tapes in a plastic bag
with a bit of string and a pul-
ley system, and I’d hide them
in the walls of my house like
‘The People Under the
Stairs,’ ” he grins. “I’d work
my way through every time
my parents would leave the
house.”
He’d play the movies on
mute when everyone else
was asleep, consuming them
as “these weird nightmare
images” that burned them-
selves into his image-ori-
ented psyche. “I remember
watching ‘Hellraiser’ with no
sound the first time, and it
made me feel delirious,” says
Savage. “Even now, some of
my favorite movies I love to
watch with no sound on, to
see how they are put to-
gether visually.”
In the end, his dad re-
lented and showed him the
movie that would inspire
him to make his own: Kat-
suhiro Otomo’s 1988 cyber-
punk anime “Akira,” a semi-
nal classic “full of body hor-
the series.
The book by playwright
MJ Kaufman and Joey
Soloway involves a multi-
tude of storylines revolving
around a Jewish community
center known as the CJJ
JCC. (Mirror-imaging of an
imperfect order seems to be
a dramaturgical strategy
here.) The setting deter-
mines not just the physical
environment but the per-
formance style of the show.
Everyone is welcome, re-
gardless of how well they can
carry a tune.
Characters are intro-
duced and set in motion in
the manner of a graphic nov-
el. The writing, for both the
book and the songs, boldly
outlines the story. But the re-
sult lacks the psychological
subtlety of the Tony-winning
musical “Fun Home,” ad-
apted from Alison Bechdel’s
stellar graphic memoir. With
its quick-sketch setups, arti-
ficial contrivances and
punchline resolutions, “A
Transparent Musical” may
ror and murderous biker
gangs,” says Savage. The
onetime aspiring comic book
artist’s brain exploded. “And
then I started seeing every-
thing moving.”
Years later, after moving
to London and working on
music videos, shorts and
commercials to prove his
chops, he began his indie
breakout “Host” with a
stroke of isolation ingenuity
in the early days of the pan-
demic. Regular Zoom hang-
outs with friends inspired
the filmmaker to prank his
buddies with a haunted attic
stunt that went viral — and
got the attention of stream-
ing platform Shudder, which
gave Savage a tiny budget to
turn it into a feature film.
“ ‘Host’ literally saved
my life during the lockdown,”
he says of the uniquely of-
the-moment quarantine
chiller, told through virtual
screens with actors filming in
their homes. “It gave us pur-
pose during those long
months.” Released in July
2020, it drew critical raves
and nabbed Savage a three-
picture Blumhouse deal,
even if the celebration was
surreal: “I felt very distant
from all the fanfare because I
was still in my house in my
pajamas, sitting on Zooms.”
Within six months he was
already shooting “Dashcam”
for Blumhouse, centered on
a polarizing livestreamer
(musician Annie Hardy,
playing a version of herself)
caught up in sinister hap-
penings during COVID shut-
downs. Filmed in late 2020, it
Craig Schwartz
in fact have more in common
with 1980s sitcoms.
There simply isn’t enough
room to develop all the plot
strands. The main one in-
volves Ali (Adina Verson, de-
livering a strong and sensi-
tive performance), the
youngest of the Pfefferman
siblings, who is flabber-
gasted to learn about a hith-
erto unmentioned gay uncle
who was living in Berlin in
1933. A gay relative is hardly a
shocker, but Ali is drowning
in family secrets and won-
ders what other vital infor-
mation has been withheld.
A book in the JCC library,
“Berlin’s Third Sex” by Mag-
nus Hirschfeld, unlocks the
subculture that Ali’s uncle
was presumably part of.
Thrilled to read about the in-
novative research into sex
and gender that was taking
place in Germany before
Hitler tightened his murder-
ous grip on power, Ali travels
back in time to meet a rela-
tive who blazed a transgen-
der path that Ali will proudly
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
Ariel Fisher For The Times
wouldn’t be released until
2022 after a film festival run,
and by the time it hit thea-
ters its radioactive lead
proved a hard pill for some
viewers to swallow. The mov-
ie landed with a thud.
“The interesting thing
about the room is that you’ve
got to imagine the room a
year from now when you’re
making a movie — especially
for a movie that’s really try-
ing to take the temperature
of what’s going on right now,”
Savage says in hindsight. “It
was before the conversation
around vaccines got so
heated and vitriolic. It was
made in the spirit of, ‘Every-
one’s outside again. Let’s
take the piss out of the last
few months.’ ”
He pauses, a bit wistful.
“It would have been nice if
that movie had got a bit more
of a life. It fizzled a little bit,
but it was OK because I see
that and ‘Host’ almost as a
package deal,” he says. Years
down the line, he imagines,
audiences will have enough
distance to revisit it. “It will
sit in my filmography, and
people will hopefully lighten
up a bit and have fun with it.”
“Dashcam” was a tough
lesson, but one Savage
barely had time to process
before he got off social media
and flew to New Orleans to
film “The Boogeyman.” His
initial pitch to producer 21
Laps (“Stranger Things”)
had been simple — “ ‘Polter-
geist’ meets ‘Ordinary Peo-
ple.’ ” It was the latter refer-
ence to Robert Redford’s Os-
car-winning 1980 familial
follow as Ari.
While all of this is taking
place in dreamlike fashion,
there’s a lot of other mishigas
and tsuris to get through.
Shelly Pfefferman
Larsen, sinking her teeth
into the role chomped on by
(Liz
Judith Light in the series)
isn’t exactly delighted to see
her former husband, dressed
in an all-new wardrobe, at the
JCC’s Purim festival. (“Who
Suffered More,” a duet be-
tween them, has fun laying
out the festering grievances.)
Eldest daughter Sarah
(Sarah Stiles) is noisily wak-
ing up to the reality that her
marriage, long survived
through pharmaceutical
means, is no longer sustain-
able. Josh (Zachary Prince),
the middle child, falls hard
for Raquel (Murphy Taylor
Smith), a bright and emo-
tionally vulnerable rabbi.
But his raging sex addiction
makes true intimacy a
stretch.
Audience members who
are already familiar with the
television show will be at an
advantage. The characters
don’t earn their psycholo-
gical depth anew. It’s mostly
borrowed. Watching the
stage version of the Pfeffer-
mans put me in mind of the
metatheatrical play that’s
being rehearsed in the musi-
cal finale. This special epi-
sode takes place after the un-
timely death of Maura.
Shelly, working out her grief,
has cast actors to portray her
children and ex-husband. A
new set of theatrical substi-
tutes is now giving these kids
a try at the Taper.
“A Transparent Musical”
brings in other characters
from the JCC and its
LGBTQ+ group, most nota-
bly Davina (played by
Peppermint, the first trans-
gender woman to originate a
principal role in a Broadway
musical) and Ezra (an affect-
ing Kasper). They discover
that they’re more than cho-
sen family, but blood ties
raise some uncomfortable
family history for Davina.
grief drama that intrigued
actor Sophie Thatcher.
Thatcher was initially
hesitant to take on another
genre project during her
hiatus from hit series “Yel-
lowjackets.” Then she and
Savage bonded over their
mutual cinephilia in their
first virtual meetings, trad-
ing references to such works
as Nicolas Roeg’s “Don’t
Look Now,” discovering they
owned matching “Betty
Blue” posters and diving into
the characters they’d need to
keep grounded for the film to
work.
“He was self-aware that
this movie being about the
Boogeyman, we’re dealing
with something that is very
well-known,” says Thatcher.
“His ultimate [goal] was to
not make it corny and make
it as artful as possible.”
During production in New
Orleans, Savage would jump
in to play scene partner to his
cast when they had to act op-
posite their titular comput-
er-generated co-star, acting
out the Boogeyman’s menac-
ing noises and mannerisms.
“He was so invested,” says
Thatcher. But on set Savage
also found himself proc-
essing the film’s themes in an
intimately personal way
when they hit unexpectedly
close to home.
“I’d just gone through a
loss before we did this movie.
And it was a nice thing to be
able to put words to those
oddly specific feelings,” he
says, specifying only that it
was a death in the family
back home in the U.K. “When
you lose someone, it doesn’t
happen all at once; that per-
son dies lots of little deaths.
At the beginning of the mov-
ie, the mom is kind of alive —
you’ve got [her painting] stu-
dio and all the light is pouring
in and her portrait is half fin-
ished and the paint is still
wet. She’s still a presence in
the house. And then she dies
again when you box her up
and put her into the dark
basement, and she dies again
every time you avoid the con-
versation with your family
members. And it was kind of
the same with my family.”
He says it again: “The
Boogeyman” is not an A24
movie. “It’s not a grief movie
in that way. But the scenes
that have to do with that are
really heartfelt. Nothing in
this movie, surprisingly for a
Disney movie called ‘The
Boogeyman,’ was done cyni-
cally.”
Horror, he says, is the
most “empathetic” of genres,
peeling back his philoso-
phical approach to scary
movies. “Horror can put you
shoulder to shoulder with
characters that you would
cross the street to avoid, but
in that context you’re rooting
for them. You come to under-
stand them. And it’s a good
leveler. ... If somebody is in a
life-or-death situation, none
of the other bull— is impor-
tant anymore.”
The production is di-
rected by Tina Landau, who
has extensive experience
wrestling unwieldy plays and
musicals into well-packaged
shapes. Making full use of
the Mark Taper Forum, her
staging blurs the boundaries
between playing area and
audience.
The design, which inevi-
tably breaks out the disco
balls, is festively managed.
Adam Rigg’s scenic design,
Yee Eun Nam’s projections
and Jen Schriever’s lighting
colorfully differentiate the
fluid theatrical geography.
Visually, the work is capti-
vating. But you don’t leave a
musical humming the tab-
leaux. This was the first time
that I can recall feeling
crushing sympathy for an
overwhelmed director.
A communal vision is the
beneficent goal of “A Trans-
parent Musical.” Soloway
and team imagine a utopia
seen through a queer-Jewish
lens in which the old oppres-
sive order is overturned. At a
time when intolerance is be-
ing dangerously exploited
for political gain, the loving
spirit behind this show feels
like a necessary corrective.
But as an experienced the-
atergoer, I was taken aback
by the artistic shambles on
the Taper stage.
‘A Transparent
Musical’
Where: Mark Taper Forum,
135 N. Grand Ave, L.A.
When: 8 p.m. Tuesdays-
Fridays, 2:30 and 8 p.m.
Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 p.m.
Sundays. Ends June 25.
(Call for exceptions.)
Tickets: $40-$129 (subject
to change)
Info: (213) 628-2772 or
centertheatregroup.org
Running time: 2 hours,
35 minutes with one
intermission