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Non-voters: Shame on you. For the most part, I do not blame or despise people who voted for Donald Trump. I disagree with them profoundly; I am baffled that they could vote for a man with such poor character—but I believe in democracy and it would be hypocritical of me to hate them. I actually get that many of them felt they’d been ignored, and that this was the only guy listening to them; they’re angry, and I get that too. Again: profoundly disagree. I’ll tell you who I blame for Donald Trump’s presidency: I blame Democrats who did not vote. I blame progressives who embraced the preposterous notion that there was little difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and decided to sit out the election. We saw a similar thing in 2000, when many progressives declined to vote for Al Gore. Don’t like the Iraq War? Blame the 2.8 million people who voted for Ralph Nader, or the 5-plus million who chose not to vote. I’m not writing here today to defend Al Gore or Hillary Clinton (and I concede that both ran lousy campaigns). I’m writing to defend the idea that our democracy is still functioning, and that it is your and every American’s responsibility to vote. I am addressing this mostly to members of my own tribe: progressive Democrats. I know some of you have become convinced that all politicians are corrupt. The bumper sticker has been around for a long time: “Don’t vote, it only encourages them.” As someone who has spent a fair amount of time reporting on politicians, and has gotten to know quite a few of them, Democrats and Republicans, over many years, I have come to believe that the vast majority of them are honorable people trying to do good. Some of them, alas, have some very bad ideas on how to do that, as we can see everywhere we look. Next Tuesday, we in the Sacramento region have many important choices to make. There are a bunch of very good candidates, and one flawed candidate who deserves your vote nevertheless. This is one of the most consequential primaries in years and could result in major shifts in policy at every level of government. During the last off-year primary, fewer than 25 percent of you voted. Shame. (If you are a Trump supporter, it’s okay with me if you don’t vote. I mean it.)

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Why Tom McClintock Needs to Go At a town hall in Mariposa, I asked Tom McClintock if the current president had the emotional and intellectual ability to lead our nation. He replied that the president was doing a “superlative job.” A few weeks later, I watched as McClintock denied humancaused climate change, denied a tearful DREAMer a pathway to citizenship, and denied a young cancer victim certainty regarding medical care. Like others, I vowed that McClintock must also be denied, and that I would spend the next year and a half making certain that in 2018 he and his fellow Republicans would lose both their seats and the majority in Congress. How do we balance economic well-being with environmental sustainability? How do we solve conflicts over water and timber and food production—not to mention freedom of speech, international relations and the marginalization and persecution of various subcultures? And how do we continue to welcome the diverse population that has grown and improved our country for hundreds of years, while assuring we can provide the basic rights of healthcare, education, adequate employment and affordable housing to all? I believe the only way to protect human rights and achieve environmental sustainability, and reverse the path of the current administration, is to change the balance of power in Congress. This can only be achieved by educating and engaging voters, and working alongside other progressive activists to get out the vote, and out-vote Republicans. Through November 6, my time and energy will be focused on this singular goal.

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Re “About that Hobo Johnson protest” by Ngaio Bealum (Essay, May 24): It is spectacular that people committed time to protest Hobo Johnson for rapping. The cause is confounding. Is there a handbook for this concept of “Cultural Appropriation”? We all need to know what else is prohibited. I’ve started a list: 1) Oak Park residency for certain people; 2) rap for certain people...what else is out of bounds? Someone in-the-know needs to get busy penning the “California Official Manual of Appropriate and Inappropriate Cultural Appropriation.” Or perhaps there is only inappropriate “cultural appropriation?” Should Hawaiians immediately toss out their appropriated ancient-Egyptian flipflops—someone among the protesters must know the answer. If I correctly interpret the protesters’ intent, only Europeans should play Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria” on cello. Did these people pin on a fascinator and protest Sheku’s “cultural appropriation” of 1800’s European culture at Prince Harry’s wedding? Were they up at 1 a.m. shouting at the telly? Art is

freedom of expression so why not let Hobo be Hobo and Sheku be Sheku? And if a person wants to live in Oak Park, shouldn’t the option be open to them? At least while it’s still a free country, and before the manual is published?

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From left: Sacramento County assessor’s office employees Seth Jarrett-Lee, Tamara Sturgis, Scott Graves, Vicki Korsak and Rick Reeve, outside their union hall May 25 in Sacramento. All except Graves were there to meet with county representatives and a private attorney to discuss the results of an investigation they spurred of their office. Photo by Graham Womack

Assessed damages Sacramento County assessor’s election clouded by office scandal by Graham Womack

On June 5, Sacramento voters will decide between Christina Wynn and Kate Van Buren for county assessor. Two days after that, Vicki Korsak faces her reckoning. Korsak is an associate real property appraiser in the assessor’s office, having worked there since 1998. A Vietnam-era Navy veteran who lives in Citrus Heights, Korsak turned 63 on May 11. She’d like to stay in her job long enough to qualify for Medicare and higher Social Security benefits and get her house paid off. It’s unclear if she’s going to make it. Over the past few years, Korsak has been among a handful of employees calling attention to what they see as a wide range of questionable dealings within their office, which sets tax values for the more than 500,000 parcels in Sacramento County. Their efforts helped

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spur an article in the Sacramento Bee and the abrupt retirement of prior assessor Kathleen Kelleher in May 2017. But it’s also made them pariahs in the office. Since the first Bee article appeared, the five employees say, they have faced blowback from coworkers and disciplinary action from management. The employees believe they’re being retaliated against, which would be illegal under the federal Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989. Korsak, who has an arbitration hearing June 7, fears she could be out of a job within weeks. Four of the five employees met May 25 with attorney Eli Makus, who the county commissioned in early 2017 to investigate the issues they raised. As has become typical for the internecine problems roiling this office, the employees claim some of their complaints were validated while others

were improperly investigated. The county assessor’s race hinges on voters deciding between two vastly different accounts. Wynn, who has worked for the department 17 years and was appointed assessor after Kelleher’s departure, denies most of the allegations associated with her office, blaming them on employees she calls disgruntled. Van Buren, a realtor and political novice, has positioned herself as a reformer. Much gray area remains and satisfactory answers might not come in time to affect the outcome of an election. But if what the critics are claiming is true, it might take a lot more than one person to fix this office. Along with Korsak, the whistleblowers include Tamara Sturgis, an associate auditor appraiser; Rick Reeve, a senior

auditor appraiser; and Seth Jarrett-Lee, a clerical worker. Scott Graves, a level-two auditor appraiser, joined their efforts more recently. Each of the five agreed to an interview with SN&R and to have their names published, though it’s no secret within their office who they are. “Everyone knows that we’re the whistleblowers,” Jarrett-Lee said. Everyone except Graves first met in September 2016 with David Devine and Cori Stillson from the Sacramento County Equal Employment Opportunity Office. The meeting also included Mike Collins, who serves as business agent for their union, United Public Employees, and has been one of their few supporters. From the meeting, Stillson compiled a letter detailing 54 allegations against the office. The letter is one of more than 200 documents and publicly-available records obtained by SN&R. Taken together, they suggest that some of the claims might be overblown, but at least a few raise red flags. For instance, Korsak claims that a number of employees, including chief Larry Grose and retired chief Gary Young, participated in an investment club on county time, using a multiple listing service to find distressed properties. “They would all hover around a desk

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on Korsak’s alleged conduct at the July 11 it, saying that they make it easy with their meeting. Grose emailed this letter to Korsak conduct in the office. after she refused to sign it. “There’s not been any heat in this office The union’s business agent, Collins, other than with that group of people,” who was present for the July 11 meeting Hawkinson said. with Korsak, Wright and a county personHawkinson’s been on the wrong end of nel analyst, Quinn Johnston, objected to one allegation from the group, stemming the approach. from a 2010 photo that circulated on social “It is becoming more apparent that the media of a retired manager and four female County is harassing the Whistle blowers coworkers on a boat. Hawkinson and two of and in violation of the Whistle Blowers [sic] the other women wore bikinis. The fourth Protection Act,” Collins wrote in a July 12 woman was photographed wearing pasties email to Johnston that he copied Wynn and over her nipples. county executive Nav Gill on. The group’s allegation is that the women Collins demanded a meeting with Wynn were promoted because of the boat ride. to discuss the conduct of Grose While three of the women have been and Wright, who also didn’t promoted in the eight years respond to requests for since, Hawkinson, a 17-year comment. It doesn’t employee of the office, If what appear this meeting needed until 2016 to happened. Two alladvance. the critics are staff emails obtained “It took me 10 years claiming is true, it by SN&R show to get promoted in that Wynn requesting office because of that might take a lot more that staff members incident,” Hawkinson than one person to treat one another with said. respect and confine The employee circufix this office. non-approved union lating the recent petition, activities to off-work time. Andy Wolfe, said via email Wynn declined to be that he’d “personally spoken to interviewed for this story, saying over one hundred of my coworkers via email, “Employee complaints are during our personal time, and what we don’t confidential personnel matters and we don’t appreciate is a few disgruntled employees comment on specifics.” presuming to speak for the rest of us. Over She spoke to SN&R earlier this month, a hundred [employees] have expressed their saying at the time, “If people have legitisupport for Christina Wynn for Assessor in mate concerns, I would definitely want to the upcoming election as do I.” deal with that that. But so far I haven’t had Bob Milbrodt, who formally worked anything brought to me that was of that in the Yolo County assessor’s office, feels level.” differently. Grose has remained Korsak’s chief. “If you have a whistleblower that’s While Korsak and the others see themselves come forward, almost 100 percent as whistleblowers, their supervisors do not. certainty what they’re telling you is “You see these issues as retaliation and I correct,” Milbrodt said. “They cannot see these issues as an employee who refuses come forward and say that without risking to take direction from lead workers and their jobs and the people are not going to supervisors,” Grose wrote in an August 25 risk their jobs for something that is trivial. email to Korsak. That’s just not going to happen.” Korsak has since served two unpaid But Milbrodt also has personal reasons suspensions. The writing’s been on the wall to doubt that anything will change. He to Sturgis. said intended safeguards such as the “What they’re doing is they’re making county appeals board, the State Board of her look crazy on paper,” Sturgis said. Equalization, local courts and legislators can “That is their whole goal. Get rid of her and merely act as rubber stamps, unwilling to she won’t have any recourse.” take action against the assessor’s office. Milbrodt sees himself in a position to Granted, not everyone in the office feels know. He says he blew the whistle back this way. Multiple petitions have in the early 2000s while working in Yolo circulated in support of Wynn since The County, and the Board of Equalization Bee’s first article, with more than 100 quickly cleared the assessor. Milbrodt said employees signing a recent one. the issues he complained about “continue to Hawkinson was able to identify “those this day.” Ω five so-called whistleblowers,” as she put

Two scrappy, underfunded Sacramento City Council candidates are taking their platforms directly to the streets. Joseph barry is currently getting his degree in education policy and leadership at Sacramento State University, with an emphasis on disability studies. He’s running in the District 5 primary race against incumbent Councilman Jay Schenirer and challenger Tamika L’Ecluse. The $500 Barry’s raised for his campaign may be dwarfed by his opponents, but what the 39-year-old lacks in financial support he makes up for in longtime knowledge of the district, which he’s lived in since 1989. “One of the main things I’ve been talking about is reinvesting in the neighborhoods and not focusing so much energy into development that’s expanding gentrification,” Barry told SN&R. “Those are resources that could otherwise be used for where there’s need in the community.” Barry is not the only candidate pounding the pavement. In District 1, community volunteer edward Lewis has been on a “walking to win” tour. Lewis is operating his campaign with zero financing, but the one-on-one conversations are an opportunity to share his very real policy chops: Lewis has served on 14 different boards and commissions in the last 20 years, working on issues as diverse as African-American child deaths to finding better resources for those suffering from mental illness. He’s also a U.S. Army veteran with a master’s degree in social work. Lewis is up against incumbent Councilwoman Angelique Ashby and small business owner Gabriell Garcia. If elected, Lewis’ top priorities would be fostering more diverse and better-staffed police and fire departments; rent stabilization for seniors, single parents and disabled residents; and better workforce development programs to curb homelessness. “My efforts would be to make Sacramento a greater, safer and healthier place to live,” Lewis told SN&R. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

fResh fACes, CLose RACes A pair of first-time political candidates in yolo County are turning to UC Davis students for support. On May 21, Eric Gudz, who is running for one of two available Davis City Council seats, and public defender Dean Johansson, who is taking on Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, joined Democratic gubernatorial candidate Delaine Eastin and U.S. Senate candidate Kevin de León for a student voting rally at UC Davis. “Less than 25 percent of the people in our [student] community vote locally,” Gudz said at the rally. “I know we can do better.” At 31, Gudz, a UC Davis alumnus, is the youngest of nine candidates running for Davis City Council and would become the youngest member if elected. DA candidate Johansson is calling for increased transparency in law enforcement and education instead of incarceration. He recalled last year’s UC Davis Picnic Day, in which five minority individuals were arrested and charged after fighting with plainclothes police officers. “There is something wrong with a system that would charge five people of color, just a short distance away from here on Picnic Day, for basically being on the receiving end of police brutality,” Johansson told the crowd. According to the Secretary of State’s 60-Day Voter Registration Report, nearly 17 percent of registered voters in yolo County are 25 and under. That’s almost 2 percent higher than in 2016, which is partly attributed to California’s new pre-registration law, which allows 16- and 17-year-olds to register prior to turning 18. As of April 6, over 100,000 teens have pre-registered in California. (Dylan Svoboda)

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The sheriff’s Me Too problem Scott Jones has promoted those accused of mistreating female subordinates by Raheem F. hosseini

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Annica Hagadorn has been in career purgatory for almost a decade. It was May 2009 when the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department lieutenant first complained about the gender and racial discrimination she faced at one of California’s largest law enforcement agencies. That initial complaint to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing eventually surfaced through a far-reaching civil lawsuit that alleged a chilling pattern within the department: Female subordinates who slept with their male supervisors were promoted. The women who complained were written up, demoted, passed over, publicly humiliated or internally investigated. In the spring of 2016, a Sacramento County jury ruled that the Sheriff’s Department had indeed discriminated against Hagadorn and her co-plaintiffs, Dawn Douglas, Tracie Keillor and Jodi Medonca. Today, Douglas, Keillor and Medonca are no longer with the department. Hagadorn remains stuck at a lieutenant’s grade. As for the man whose conduct they exposed, Jones promoted him to be his undersheriff. According to an SN&R review of public records and court documents, Jones has constructed his inner circle with some of the very men who cost Sacramento County millions of dollars over substantiated allegations that they treat women terribly. Jones’ No. 2, Erik Maness, was a leading antagonist in the yearslong discrimination lawsuit that culminated in 2016 with a jury hammering the Sheriff’s Department for nearly $7 million in damages to plaintiffs and their attorneys. Meanwhile, Jones’ pick to investigate corruption within the department was himself implicated in a sexual harassment claim that resulted in a $50,000 settlement for a female subordinate, SN&R has confirmed. Current and former employees say it’s part of a chilling pattern that benefits from Jones’ absentee leadership: Anyone who complains sees their careers get stalled, are subjected to retaliatory investigations or are forced out. As for the people the buck |

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supposedly stops with? “The moral of the story is they’re still there,” said Donna Cox, who retired from the department in August 2016 and is challenging Jones. “They didn’t have to step down.” If Jones cinches his third term in office next week, it will represent the failure of the Me Too movement to swing local politics, say his critics and challengers—who are sometimes one and the same. For his part, Jones told SN&R earlier this year that the issues uncovered by the civil lawsuit occurred prior to his election in 2010. In March, he said he believed he already reformed the internal promotions process to prevent such favoritism from happening under his watch. But he has elevated individuals who were at the center of such allegations, none more central than Maness. A decade ago, Douglas and Keillor complained about a female employee Maness was romantically entangled with to then Capt. Jones, who, they said, told them “hands off,” according to court documents. Their complaints led to an investigation, which then-Undersheriff Thomas McMahon dismissed. In July 2008, then-Capt. Maness was transferred from patrol to command the main jail, which placed him directly above the three women who complained about his relationship with the female subordinate. Plaintiffs claimed that Maness removed Lt. Douglas from her position as the jail’s operations commander, stripped Deputy Medonca of an inmate drug abuse position that would have paid her overtime and took Sgt. Keillor from the jail’s administrative office, despite stellar reviews in the position. Plaintiffs said Keillor was subjected to an internal affairs investigation for a bogus claim of felony computer fraud. The blowback took its toll: Keillor suffered a stroke in February 2013. “If you’re on a hit list, if they don’t like you, then you’re done. And that’s what happened to Tracy Keillor,” Cox said. “That is still the culture.” Reached by phone, Hagadorn declined to comment on the case.

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“It just would not be appropriate,” she said, citing the impending election. “It’s not who I am as a person.” Cox says she witnessed the mistreatment of her female colleagues and experienced it herself as a sergeant whose complaints were dismissed while those of her male subordinates were pursued. Cox, who retired as a sergeant after more than 12 years on the force, said department heads “pick and choose who they’re gonna uphold the law with.” Cox reached her breaking point in August 2016. “I couldn’t deal with that negativity,” she said. “It’s bad enough surviving patrol, but then to go to work [with management] trying to do a Tonya Harding on you because they don’t want you to promote.” Meanwhile, the man Jones has entrusted to root out corruption within the department has had his own Me Too moment. According to court documents, Stephanie Angel was one day into her new assignment on the eighth floor of the county jail when her immediate supervisor began hitting on her. It was May 2006 and Angel was a deputy with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, which runs both the downtown jail and a larger custodial facility on the outskirts of Elk Grove. She was also married. Angel said in the civil complaint she eventually filed against the department that she informed her new boss of her marital status in turning down a dinner date, but that then-sheriff’s Sgt. Santos Ramos continued his advances, procuring her private cellphone number and texting her sexually suggestive remarks. The complaint says that Ramos didn’t give up courting the married women for 19 days. On May 30, 2006, Angel met with Ramos and a captain without her union lawyer. She thought they were going to discuss an injury she sustained a few days earlier, the complaint says. Instead, Ramos leveled six allegations that led to her demotion and prompted an internal investigation that lasted almost a year.

Angel filed her lawsuit against the county and multiple Sheriff’s Department officials at the end of 2007, including Ramos, then-Sheriff John McGinness and Jones, then a captain commanding the jail where this all transpired. The lawsuit was ultimately settled for $50,000, according to county spokeswoman Kimberly Nava. Angel is now at the center of a criminal probe into whether she and her partner took advantage of an elderly woman experiencing dementia, whom detectives found staying with extended family in the Philippines. The Sheriff’s Department revealed the investigation in March, though it didn’t name Angel and her partner except to say that she was a 14-year deputy and he was a six-year deputy. As of May 24, the district attorney’s office had yet to file charges against Angel. Richard Allaye Chan Jr. said the investigation into his client is payback for her harassment claims against the department. “Here’s the problem, and nobody’s making this nexus,” Chan began. “Guess who she sues: Scott Jones. Santos Ramos. … And guess who Santos Ramos is? He’s a captain and he runs internal investigations.” As for Jones, he stands on the precipice of an outright victory next week thanks to a sizable fundraising lead, the benefits of incumbency and the reflected glory he’s been getting from last month’s arrest of the suspected East Area Rapist, Joseph James DeAngelo. His main opponent is former deputy chief Milo Fitch, a veteran who has spent the latter part of his career trying to reduce the state’s sky-high recidivism rate through rehabilitation programs. On Twitter, Fitch took aim at Jones’ insistence on fighting the gender discrimination lawsuit at taxpayers’ expense. “Over a six-year legal battle, the Sheriff’s Department paid out $10 million of county taxpayers’ funds to female deputies who had been harassed and retaliated against by superiors,” Fitch wrote. “We need a reset of the department’s culture to support all deputies.” Cox thinks she’s that reset, not Fitch. But she’s also at a loss to explain why a cultural shift hasn’t happened sooner. “How are men not having to step down?” Cox asked. “And those two [Jones and Maness] are guilty in a court of law, and they’re still in the one-and-two positions. … How are they still in control?” Ω

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US Senate: Kevin de León it’s very unusual for elected officials to endorse a candidate running against a United States senator of their own party. Kevin de León has many such endorsements in his bid to unseat Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Many democratic leaders agree that it’s time for her to go. This race will be decided in November—but that will be a formality unless de León receives strong support next week. That would be good for the state and the nation. Feinstein has done much important work in her unprecedented 26-year career in congress. Her seniority makes her one of the most powerful members of the senate. As her campaign points out, de León will have no such power if elected. Nevertheless, it’s time to look to the future. If California is to have a representative in a powerful position in years to come, we must send de León to the Senate now.

US HoUSe of RepReSentativeS diStRict 4: JeSSica MoRSe in one of the most crucial congressional races in the country, we have an opportunity to unseat one of the most powerfully dangerous men in the U.S. Congress: Rep. Tom McClintock. Granted: this is a longshot in conservative District 4, but McClintock is not an ordinary conservative—he stands to the right of Donald Trump on many issues. There isn’t space here to list the ways McClintock’s bills and votes have hurt his district and the nation, but they include immigration, women’s issues, foreign policy and, most importantly, the environment—he is the chair of the House Public Lands subcommittee, and removing him from that position would be a victory for every living thing. Two of the three female Democrats opposing McLintock would do a fine job of representing the district in Congress. Jessica Morse has a better chance of defeating him, and has shown the kind of coalition building skills necessary to wage a big-tent campaign that could win over the reasonable conservatives in her district. Her opponent, Regina Bateson, has an 12 | SN&R | 05.31.18

admirable resume, and her policy proposals are similar to Morse’s. However, Bateson has been a divisive force in the district, breaking two promises she made to voters when she launched her campaign. First, after promising not to go negative, she did so almost immediately— charging that Morse was misrepresenting her past accomplishments. We analyzed Morse’s statements about her record, and found that while she definitely represented herself in the best possible light, there was nothing to warrant the charges of misrepresentation. Bateson also promised voters that she would withdraw from the race if she did not get the Democratic nomination—when that nomination went to Morse, Bateson again reversed herself. This kind of infighting has bedeviled Democrats for generations and can’t be supported. Jessica Morse has won endorsements from the vast majority of organizations and community leaders in her district. She has the support of Democratic allies throughout the state and the nation. For that reason, she might be able to win this.

GoveRnoR: antonio viLLaRaGoSa Gavin newsom deserves your vote but he doesn’t need it. He has done a lot of courageous things in his political career—not the least of which was bringing the gay marriage issue to national prominence as mayor of San Francisco. His policy positions, and his political demeanor, closely resemble those of Gov. Jerry Brown, one of the greatest governors of California or any other state. Antonio Villaraigosa also deserves your vote, and he needs it. The top-two primary really means that your vote next Tuesday is vote a between Villaraigosa and John Cox. Based on his record, endorsing Villaraigosa is easy. Before he got into elected politics, he made his bones as an organizer with the local teachers’ union. While mayor of Los Angeles, he made pragmatic decisions that required him to challenge that very union, showing that, like Brown, he is has the courage to put principles above politics. Much is being made about the support and money Villaraigosa has received from wealthy charter-school advocates; this is an interesting debate, with laudable arguments on both sides, and it would be useful to have

that debate play out in November. If Villaraigosa does not succeed on Tuesday, the top two candidates for California governor will be Newsom and Cox. That would be bad for a couple of reasons, one of which is purely political. A Republican candidate at the top of the ballot in November would mean a greater Republican turnout. that could be make things difficult for down-ballot Democrats. This kind of thinking may seem too political—but this is politics.

SacRaMento coUnty SHeRiff: MiLo fitcH this race could result in the most meaningful change to the culture of our county. Sheriff Scott Jones is a smart man, a competent administrator, and a brilliant campaigner. He is also an ideologue who’s legal and political positions are far out of step with Sacramento. His Trumpfriendly position on immigration reform, his hostile response to African-American protestors with legitimate grievances against his force, make him a polarizing figure at a time that calls for conciliation rather than combativeness. Milo Fitch, far from an outsider challenger, is a man with a deep lawenforcement background whose ideas about reforming the sheriff’s department come from years of experience. He is the rare reform candidate who could easily develop loyalty from within the sheriff’s department that would allow him to initiate real reform.

SacRaMento coUnty diStRict attoRney: noaH pHiLLipS ann Marie Schubert has put Sacramento in the national spotlight with her response to protests of her office’s handling of recent officer-involved shootings. For several weeks now, her building has been surrounded by a 10-foot-tall chain-link fence. The protestors’ frustration with Schubert did not begin with the death of Stephon Clark. Her decision to not prosecute officers John Tennis and Randy Lozoya, who shot Joseph Mann to death after trying to run him down with their car, is inexplicable—especially in light of admissions Tennis made in these pages. Recent charges against her opponent, Noah Phillips, regarding a personal email

exchange with his uncle which were blown out of proportion by a front page story in the Sacramento Bee, might guarantee Schubert’s victory. If so that’s too bad for Sacramento.

pRop 68: yeS the biggest and best parks bond in U.S. history directs the vast majority of its $4.1 billion to people in underserved communities, and will result in many life-enhancing projects throughout the Sacramento region.

pRop 69: yeS this gas tax will pump $5 billion into transportation projects, from potholes to bike paths. Sales taxes are generally not the fairest way to raise revenue, but this one makes a lot of sense. As you may know, the gas tax is a bogeyman to the hard anti-tax right, so this one needs your help.

pRop 70: no this proposal to handcuff the legislature with regards to spending revenue from California’s cap-and-trade program is designed solely to protect to Gov. Jerry Brown’s pet project: the bullet train. It is almost tempting to give this to Brown in recognition of his lifetime of outstanding service to the state but … no.

pRop 71: yeS okay: Let’s get into the weeds. the legislature passed a law last year decreeing that ballot initiatives (like those we’re discussing right now) go into effect five days after election results have been certified, instead of the morning after election day. Thanks to the California Constitution, that law requires direct voter approval. There is a convincing argument that, for a variety of inside-baseball reasons, this is important.

pRop 72: yeS this is a first step toward california’s adoption of water-collection technology thousands of years old. The Palace of Knossos (1700 B.C.) on the island of Crete was found to have a sophisticated rainwater harvesting system on its roof. Why doesn’t every building in our drought-prone state have a cistern in the cellar? Building codes forbid it. This fixes that. —Eric Johnson e r ic j@ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

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way, but because Schubert’s office decided that Earlier this month, I graduated from California the gun “enhanced the reputation” of a gang, a State University, Sacramento, with my ridiculous and standardless claim. But one with bachelor’s degree in social work and a minor devastating consequences: Because of the way in sociology. My daughter and two grandthat DeAndre was charged, his judge had no daughters were by my side. At 46, getting choice but to impose a sentence of 30 years to my degree was the culmination of decades of life; she could not give him less time. struggle, hard work and dedication. It should Schubert did not have to charge DeAndre have been my happiest moment. But one thing that way. She could have taken his youth into was missing: My son, DeAndre Rogers, was account, she could have declined to charge a not by my side. gang enhancement, she could Only bars could have kept have recognized that one of him away from me that day, DeAndre’s other “strikes” and bars are exactly what was also for nonviolent gun have: DeAndre is serving 30 possession. But mercy is not years to life in prison. Not this office’s message so far. because he killed someone, The district attorney’s office not because he robbed has become more and more someone or hurt someone. aggressive, even as crime in DeAndre faces the rest of his our city is on the decline. life in prison because he had Even though Sacramento a gun. In a rap video. accounts for less than 1.3 This is our hell now. percent of California’s popuMy son DeAndre is a lation, it is now responsible beautiful human being. He is for 4.5 percent of its felony a loving son, a devoted father Kendra Claudette Jackson is a ronald e. cases and 5.1 percent of the and a committed partner to Mcnair scholar with a bachelor of arts in state’s felony convictions, his wife. More than that, social work and a minor in sociology. Her according to a 2016 report DeAndre was a child when he research interests include the school-toprison pipeline, mass incarceration and from the Judicial Council committed the crime of having inequities in education. she is a mom and of California. From 2014 to a gun. Although 24 years of an activist for social justice. 2016, Sacramento’s prison age in body, DeAndre was incarceration rate rose from like so many other boys his 336 per 1,000 felony arrests age—an adult under the law to a 558, far exceeding the state average of but an adolescent at heart. He turned to me for 446, according to the Center for Juvenile advice about matters large and small. He called and Criminal Justice’s California Sentencing me everyday, both to talk with me but also for Institute. Crime is down, but new felony the reassurance of hearing my voice. Even when admissions to state prison are up. he lived on his own, or with the mother of my Our district attorneys have too much power. beautiful granddaughter, DeAndre came to my Too many of our children are going to prison, house every chance he could to spend time with and for far too long. It is time for Schubert me, his mama. He lived in the body of a man, to change her policies, but until she does, I but had the same heart that he had when he was am lobbying for the People’s Fair Sentencing a 3-year-old toddler, a 10-year-old boy and a and Public Safety Act of 2018, which will 15-year-old adolescent. But my son will not get make it harder for prosecutors to lock up our to come to my house to spend time with me children for life based on old or non-violent anymore, and his flood of phone calls have been convictions. reduced to a trickle. I hope it’s not too late for my baby, but DeAndre is the latest example of District I know it’s not too late for the thousands of Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s harsh charging others throughout Sacramento County. No and sentencing decisions. DA Schubert charged mother should lose their child based on the my son’s gun possession as “gang related.” Not because he used the gun in a dangerous or violent simple possession of anything—even a gun. Ω

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don’t believe any of us were ready for what we would learn while judging this year’s H igh School College Essay Contest. Deborah ha d been saying for some time that this is alwa ys her favorite issue of the year. Now, the fo ur of us who did most of the judging know why. In case you don’t know any high school seniors: Most colleges require applicants t o submit a personal essay so the folks in a dmissions can get a sense of who they are. The students are urged to be vulnerable and s hare something important about themselves. Oc casionally, they’re given a prompt—“tell us about an obstacle you’ve overcome” is popular. Well, the 10 students whom you will meet in these pages reveal themselves to be extraordinary human beings. As did a whole lot of the other contestants. When we four

preliminary judges gathered around the ta ble here in editorial last Wednesday to discu ss what we’d found, our eyes were big. Kate shared the criteria she had used for judging, pointed to one nicely composed se mifinalist, and said, “This is well-written, but … n o feels.” Steph, Mozes and I concurred that this was what mattered most. Feels. I predict you will catch feels when readin g the essays written by the three winners and s elections from the seven Honorable Mentions . I can’t wait to meet these kids—they’ll b e here for a little celebration and to pick up their checks on Thursday! We want to extend a big thank you to our first place sponsor, InterWest Insurance Servi ces. And thanks also to our second and third p lace sponsors, GiveBack2Sac, Gilbert Associat es and Flock.

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‘through alienation, i learned independence’ “Why is your hair so long? Why are you so hairy?” The boy’s eyes fixated on my arms as I desperately tugged down the sleeves of my shirt; the dread that always accompanied those questions seeping through my tanned skin, into my bones, dropping to the pit of my stomach. At the age of 6, I didn’t know how to respond to those questions or the feelings of shame that followed them. I just knew I didn’t like it. At the age of 6, all I knew was that the long hair I kept back in a braid ostracized me from all the other girls. At the age of 6, I learned to despise my culture. My school life and home life have always run on opposite tracks. I was always chasing after one or the other, constantly failing to ingress completely into the ‘American’ lifestyle my parents sacrificed everything for me to have, while fumbling to uphold the Indian values that governed my family. My halted speech from years of only speaking Punjabi at home, the way I missed TV references, my natural tendency to strive to be the best, widened the gap between my peers and I. I felt like I was in an enormous puzzle—a mismatched piece that didn’t fit, no matter which way you turned it. I remember the red-hot shame I felt for being the only brown girl in my grade, for thinking that because I was so peculiar there was something wrong with me. I remember the frustration that swelled in my throat and stung behind my eyes when my father refused to let me cut my long hair, and I remember shaving my arms the summer before sixth grade and waiting for my mother to come home, praying she wouldn’t notice. She noticed. I also remember the hurt flickering in her angry eyes. She couldn’t comprehend what had gotten into her bright little girl. She didn’t understand why I was suddenly distancing myself from the only way of life we had ever known.

Truthfully, I didn’t understand why either. All I knew was that I wanted to fit in. But never at the expense of my mother’s disappointment. My parents didn’t uproot their lives to live in a country whose tongue they didn’t speak and whose culture they didn’t understand for me to forget my own. They didn’t exchange their lives of comfort for seventeen hour workdays for me to disregard the opportunities they had created for me, just because I didn’t fit in. Even though I didn’t understand at the age of 6, I grew to realize it. As I grew older, the thought of “fitting in” vanished from my mind. I learned to love my roots, even though I was taught to cast them aside. Through the scorn I grew up in, I learned resilience. Through the narrow-mindedness I faced, I learned perseverance. Through alienation, I learned independence. Through hate, I learned love. Love for my culture. Love for how I grew up. Love for who I am. Love isn’t easy to learn. It takes time, it takes practice, and often times, it takes a mentor. My mentor was my experience, and though I came out better because of it, I know that’s not the only way to learn. Like my own, many immigrant parents don’t know how to teach love and acceptance of our culture because they never had to teach themselves. Indian children need someone else to turn to. So my brainchild— “Framework for Compassion”—was born, a YouTube channel sharing my experience growing up as a daughter of two immigrants, what our culture stood for, and why they should be proud to be who they are. The world doesn’t need more carbon copies, it needs individuals who aren’t afraid of diverging from the norm, who aren’t afraid of creating and becoming something extraordinary. A little love from me might help. Ω

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is creating art. When I am experiencing sensory overload or feeling “full” and need to release my feelings, I draw. My thoughts are turned into art, my feelings are in the pages of my sketch book, my plans, my hopes, my dreams... my life is what transforms the pages in my sketch book, from a blank white page of nothingness, into my living color. What I hear, see, feel, taste and touch unfolds at the tip of my pencil, my pen, my stylus, my brush in shade, in shape, in texture, in contrast, in hue, and I am whole. I have purpose. I contribute. I am a giving spirit. I have value. I add value. I know my worth. Standing on my belief that everyone has value and something to contribute, I choose to highlight individuals with disabilities. I am an advocate for those with disabilities, including physical, intellectual and neurodevelopmental deficits. I have spoken to thousands of students, teachers, staff, administrators and coaches about understanding and acceptance for those with disabilities. To clarify, “disability” is in my opinion the “inability” of others to see another’s ability, due to a preconceived notion that individuals with disabilities are somehow less or inadequate in some way. I wanted to depict individuals with varying degrees of disabilities including one with an “invisible” disability (autism). This five-piece collection (“Brawn Content,” “Fearless Flight,” “Wheeled Warrior,” “Unforeseen Courage,” “Majestic Contradiction”) depicts these individuals as you might see them in everyday life. They appear as vibrant, strong and capable individuals with a physical deficit. But these individuals are more than their perceived deficits. Their disability cannot be overlooked but instead accepted as apart of them and not all of them. To see the person first. Dragons are grand, beautiful and majestic creatures. Individuals with disabilities are a lot like dragons. The perceptions of dragons are conflicted; dragons can be strong, yet docile; they can be aggressive and content, brave yet loyal, menacing but gregarious, beautiful, yet intimidating and even through all of the contradictions, they just want to be loved, understood and accepted just like those with disabilities. They are kindred spirits. Included on the five pieces are dragon depictions of the same individuals with disabilities. The intent of the dragon maintaining the physical deficit is to show that the disability transcends, however. When you look at the dragon, you see the beauty, strength, fearlessness, boldness, loyalty and majesty of the dragon and the deficit is secondary, an afterthought even. The accompanying dragon depiction embodies the spirit of the individuals with disabilities. That is exactly how I believe that individuals with disabilities should be seen. An undeniable force to be reckoned with, worthy contributors full of purpose and value. Ω

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‘the bloody nose, the sting of the remote’ I wish I could remember what I did to deserve being inescapably tied to him. But I do remember years of sitting in the back seat with my sisters, crying. I remember the yelling, insults, and continuous arguments from the driver and passenger seats. I remember muffled yelling from the other side of the door. I remember running away only to see him on the other side. I remember late nights within her damp arms. I remember the pain in her eyes, a striking juxtaposition of the hope and love we always had. I remember that smirk. I remember the lies. I remember the dread, the hatred, the anxiety, the pressure. I remember the slap, the ripped paper, the bloody nose, the sting of the remote. In spite, I act as though my decisions are my own, but my thoughts tell a different a story. A story where his actions are the rock, his lies are the chains, and his blood is the punishment. A story where I am Prometheus—forever bound to him—forever living the duality of doing things for myself, but because of him. A common question for kids is, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and while I may answer by saying, “I want to be a teacher!” the truth is that I just don’t want to be him. I don’t want to be someone devoid of emotion, morals, reality. Everything that I have done throughout high school has been a setup for making sure I can be who I want to be. Taking the top classes to make sure I become top of my class, studying to make sure I do well on the standardized testing, creating meaningful relationships with others my age, and trying to make sure that I would have a lasting effect on those I gave my love to. It is hard for me to completely disregard the effect he has had on me, because in many ways, I am who I am because of him. Anger, Pain, Frustration—introduced by him—were once my worst enemies, but are now my greatest allies. They used to tighten my bonds, but now I use them to chip away at his own handiwork. I may be imprisoned, but as I look toward the future, I realize that it will not always be this way. It is hard to know who I really am without knowing the drive behind every decision I make. I choose to live in a state of being where I can see my future, and also have the power to get myself there. These bonds are not bonds, rather they are training wheels. In his attempt to break me, he has only facilitated my growth. As there will come a day when I break these shackles, for I do not need to rely on Fate, Zeus, or even Him for my salvation. I only need to rely on myself. I am my own Hercules. Ω

‘suddenly, maniac magee and Jerry spinelli came into being’ When I was a little girl, my mom dragged me on her shopping trips to Marshalls. I would always walk towards the toy aisle, grab a book from the small selection they had, sit on the floor, and read. That was my form of entertainment, reading. Always putting myself in the shoes of the characters. Suddenly, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli came into being. It is this book that sparked my interest in English. … One of my fondest moments in elementary school was every Thursday when the librarian would read us a story. I got to share my knowledge of English in the same way by reading to kindergarteners from NP3 Elementary every week. It brought a smile to my face seeing the intrigue on their faces and watching them grow. While they may not have the experience I had, it is such a wonderful experience seeing a young person’s eyes light up to a story. English taught me that everybody has a story that cannot just be put into simple terms. Tone, diction, symbols and actions make a story unique…. English encourages me to be a better listener and question my own choices. Even the small parts that may seem insignificant are vital to a person’s story. Having that mindset prompted me to be more empathetic, improving my patience and communication skills, qualities that are very much needed, beyond all the science and math classes, if I want to be a well rounded person. I’ve learned that it’s more about paying attention to what’s being said than about what to say in response. … English as a whole made me grow in so many ways, but I try to never forget the little girl on the floor of Marshall’s reading a book, smiling and ready to begin her lifelong journey into the imagination. Ω

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… Before that election, I hated politics. I hated the differing opinions and the conflicts. It’s not obvious in my appearance or the way I act that I am queer, and I had accepted this invisibility cloak and was hiding underneath it. I rarely advocated for queer rights unless explicitly asked. After that election, I realized the importance of educating people about diversity. I still prefer to be on the sideline rather than front and center, but it is important that this is my choice and not because others have pushed me away and my voice is being muted. No matter where I or anyone else choose to stand, it is important that respect exists for that choice. My world started collapsing in on me on November 8, 2016, but I refused to let it crush me. The day after the election, I proudly sported all the “queer and proud” merchandise that I owned (and some that I borrowed) and acknowledged that not everyone would accept this message. When I was confronted by a group of boys and called “a stupid queer slut!” and worse, I didn’t let it stick. I knew that the boys were trying to get to me and I was not going to let that happen. Of course it hurt, but I wanted to prove a point; they did not know who I was and therefore had no claim to label me and push me aside. I rejected the labels of “stupid” and “slut” because I know those labels are not who I am, but the label of queer I kept. Queer fit me, and ever since those five minutes and the reflection that followed them, I have been proud to wear that label. Ω

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June is bustin’ out with seasonal festivals and summer shows. Here’s an overview, restricted to productions opening no later than June 30: Broadway at Music Circus. This theater-inthe-round series (founded in 1951) offers a unique experience. The 360-degree stage means everything is out in the open, including the entrances and exits of all actors, props and sets. The first challenge of this summer’s season is figuring out how to have falling rain in the middle of a circled audience for the musical Singing in the Rain (June 12-17). The second June production is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a dance show set on the Oregon frontier in the 1800s (June 26-July 1). Both shows are indoors at the Wells Fargo Pavilion. broadwaysacramento.com. Davis Shakespeare Festival. This young festival has grown from a start-up into an increasingly professional series over seven summers. This year, they feature three professional actors and a host of others seen recently at Capital Stage, Sac Theatre Company and Big Idea Theatre. They’re staging Schiller’s 200-year-old historical drama Mary Stuart, about the struggle for supremacy between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. It’s a recent translation that got award nominations in London and New York. And then there’s On the Twentieth Century, a giddy musical farce from 1978 (winner of several Tonys), 24

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set on a passenger train during the roaring ’20s. The two shows run in repertory June 21-August 5, indoors at the Veterans Memorial Theatre in Davis. shakespearedavis.org. Fair Oaks Theater Festival is a long-running outdoor series (founded 1982). This summer’s show is the Disney/Cameron Mackintosh version of Mary Poppins, June 15-August 5 in an outdoor amphitheater. fairoakstheatrefestival.com. Main St. Theatre Works is an outdoor series (with many Sacramento actors) at the lovely Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre in Jackson (a foothill town an hour east of Sacramento). The comedy Mama Won’t Fly, about a parent fearful to board a flight from Alabama to California for her kid’s wedding, runs June 22-July 21. mstw.org. B Street Theatre is reviving the Norm Foster golf course comedy The Ladies Foursome, June 19-July 22. Foster is a Canadian specializing in plays “about ordinary people just trying to get by in life. I never set out with a monumental purpose in mind… What I am trying to do is make them feel a little better about this world, and that’s not easy these days.” bstreettheatre.org. Capital Stage is doing The Thanksgiving Play by Native American writer/choreographer Larissa Fasthorse, June 20-July 22. This satire on political correctness involves a school play designed to celebrate both Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month, without killing any turkeys. capstage.org. Big Idea Theatre is doing Boy by Anna Ziegler—a 2016 play, based on an actual incident in the 1960s, that deals with gender identity issues after a botched circumcision. The script has been staged to acclaim in off-Broadway and elsewhere. It runs June 15-July 14. bigideatheatre.org. Chautauqua Playhouse is planning an all-female version of the venerable Revolutionary War musical 1776 (premiered in 1969 for the American Bicentennial in 1976), running June 22-July 22. cplayhouse.org. Davis Musical Theatre Company is doing Disney’s The Little Mermaid, June 15-July 8, dmtc.org. Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, which stages outdoor productions in an amphitheater near Fairytale Town in William Land Park, gets underway on June 29 with The Count of Monte Cristo, an adventure story with lots of swordplay, running through July 29. And—breaking my own rule—a second play, Henry V, joins the rotation in July 6-29. sacramentoshakespeare.net. Ω

Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.; (916) 433-5300; bstreettheatre. org. B.S.

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Jordan Harrison’s play is a sci-fi tale wrapped inside a family drama about aging, fading memories and how we choose what to remember— and how. Janis Stevens brilliantly stars in the title role, with sterling turns by Jamie Jones, Brock D. Vickers and Steven Sean Garland. Stephanie Gulart, Capital Stage founding artistic director (now producing artistic director of Florida’s American Stage)

directs this co-production of the two companies. Wed

7pm, Thu 7pm, Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm. Through 6/3; $28-$40; Capital Stage, 2215 J St.; (916) 995-5464; capstage.org. J.C.

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sac Ballet dancers channeling their inner Balanchine in a past production.

The final bow Sacramento Ballet presents The Genius of Balanchine— featuring scenes from works by the great George Balanchine (1904-1983), artistic director of the New York City Ballet for 35-plus years, and the “father of American dance.” Sacramento Ballet co-director Carinne Binda is regarded as one of the best Balanchine coaches in the country; she is joined for this production by John Clifford, who stages Balanchine works for renowned ballet companies in France, Russia and the United Kingdom. This will be the final bow for Sac Ballet’s co-artistic directors Carinne Binda and Ron Cunningham, retiring after 30 years leading the company. 7:30pm Thu 6/14, Fri 6/15, Sat 6/16; 2pm Sun 6/17; $65; The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for The Arts (home of B Street Theatre), 2700 Capitol Avenue; sacballet.org; (916) 443-5300.

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Four lifelong pals (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen) feel the stirrings of dormant libido when their monthly book club takes up Fifty Shades of Grey. Make no mistake, it’s great to see these four working together, good sports and consummate pros that they are, but the fact remains that they’re shoveling crap, and it’s insulting. The script is a mélange of lame jokes about menopause, plastic surgery, Viagra and online dating, plus a huge slab of naked product placement (pun intended) for E.L. James’ steamy novel. It’s aimless, contrived and clichéd, betraying the inexperience of writers Erin Simms and Bill Holderman (who also directed, limply; he’s new to that too). Escorting the ladies to this senior prom are Andy Garcia, Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss and Craig T. Nelson. J.L.

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met a property he couldn’t drain of personality (Howard apparently re-shot roughly 70 percent of Lord and Miller’s work). As ever, Howard’s concept Here goes my one last reason to care about subseof visual cinema is hopelessly flat and punishingly quent Star Wars movies as anything other than a literal. Call it old school Hollywood craftsmanship conveyer belt of the most pandering, performative if you insist, but I wouldn’t trust the guy to build a woke-ness possible. The Star Wars prequels introduced stairway to nowhere. Jar Jar Binks to the world and turned the Force into Alden Ehrenreich stole scenes as Hobie Doyle in midichlorians, but at least they left Han Solo alone. Hail, Caesar!, but he is given a largely thankless task But with Disney currently in charge of the Star Wars in Solo. When his performance works, it’s because universe, they are cranking out new movies as fast as he reminds us of our affection for the character that possible, and therefore Ron Howard’s awful Ford created; when it doesn’t work, which Solo: A Star Wars Story exists. is often, Ehrenreich looks like a bad Ironically, Solo, which pointlessly cosplayer. fills in the blanks of the early life of Alden Unfortunately, the failings of Solo the rogue hero, comes as close as Ehrenreich stole span well beyond the casting and any of the new live-action Star scenes as Hobie concept. Lawrence Kasdan and John Wars movies to capturing the Kasdan contributed a tin-eared and clattering dutifulness and eyeDoyle in Hail, Caesar!, overstuffed script that renders any stabbing imagery of the prequels. but he is given a attempt to create a sense of mystery Rejoice, people who don’t care largely thankless futile, as it becomes clear early on about the quality of the media they that every semi-mysterious character ingest just so long as they recognize task in Solo. will inevitably remove their mask to the brand! There’s even a culturally monologue about their origin story. insensitive, Jar Jar-esque space monkey I don’t have any behind-the-scenes evidence for the kids, as well as a nonsensical cameo to back this theory up, but given their respective from a key player in The Phantom Menace. track records, it feels safe to assume that any Solo is essentially a 135-minute version of the River remotely clever idea probably originated with Lord Phoenix sequence from Indiana Jones and the Last and Miller (such as a Stormtrooper recruitment Crusade, only it looks like complete garbage and is video that appropriates John William’s iconic “The no fun at all. It’s a nonstop succession of callbacks, Imperial March” theme), while the lifeless execution wink-wink foreshadowing and Infinity Stone-style and pervasive joylessness of Solo comes courtesy of world-building meant to explain the origin of everything Howard. Ω Han Solo ever did, said or touched over the course of episodes IV through VI. Worse, Solo is shot like an early 1990s prime-time drama, all gauzy lighting, shadowy interiors and monochromatic colors. Original Solo directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were booted from the project well into production and replaced by career hack Ron Howard, who never Poor Fair Good Very excellent

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An arrogant, selfish playboy (Eugenio Derbez) stiffs a working-class single mom (Anna Faris) after she cleans the carpets on his mega-yacht; later, when he falls overboard and washes ashore with amnesia, she claims him as her husband, intending to get her money’s worth by putting him to work around the house. This remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell rom-com switches the genders of the lead characters, which was probably a mistake—Derbez is scruffy-looking and charmless, without Faris’ comic flair for playing superficial characters; he’d have been more sympathetic as a workingclass dad, and she’d have been funnier as Hawn’s spoiled heiress. Otherwise, the movie is passably mediocre, and at least it’s one remake that doesn’t desecrate the original—which was hardly a classic in the first place. J.L.

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More snot-nosed nihilism and fangless comic book meta-commentary from Marvel’s unkillable “merc with a mouth,” once again played by Ryan Reynolds as a homicidal rape-joke comedian. With original Deadpool director Tim Miller off working on yet another Terminator reboot, Atomic Blonde director and former stunt coordinator David Leitch takes over for the sequel, but the film doesn’t feel any less sloppy, desperate and stupid for his participation. The plot sees Deadpool trying to protect a mutant child from sexual predators while delivering a nonstop string of one-liners about child molestation, before finally sodomizing the villain to death with an electrical cable. Disconnected pop culture references pass for humor, as though the mere mention of dubstep, LinkedIn, gluten, Justin Bieber, Sharknado, the McRib or any other recognizable proper noun or pop culture buzzword was sufficiently hilarious. True to form, the film calls out its own lazy writing, which is probably the laziest writing of all. D.B.

Life of the Party

A middle-aged housewife (Melissa McCarthy), suddenly dumped by her husband, decides to go back to school and finish her degree, to the horror of her college-bound daughter. The latest laughless dud from McCarthy and husband Ben Falcone (she stars, he directs, they both write) takes its place beside predecessors Tammy (2014) and The Boss (2016), the two worst pictures of McCarthy’s career. Now there are three. The story is inconsistent from one scene to the next—sometimes from one shot to the next—with nearly every scene looking desperately improvised, falling flat, and left in for the sake of filling out the running time. It’s all Melissa all the time; nobody else gets even a sliver of the limelight. A vanity production sure enough—but whose vanity is being catered to, McCarthy’s or Falcone’s? J.L.

Lu Over the Wall

This rare stinker from animation importer GKIDS offers echoes of Studio Ghibli classics like My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo, but it contains little of the charm and none of the elegant character design of those films. Mopey teen Kai lives in a quiet, Japanese harbor town where humans and merfolk once co-existed in harmony, at least until an “old curse” inspired the humans to construct a wall to keep the merfolk out. However, when Kai gets recruited into joining a rock band, their song attracts the young and impetuous mermaid Lu, whose tail transforms into two wobbly legs whenever music plays. Lu joins the band as lead singer, and she bonds with Kai over their missing mothers, but a misunderstanding eventually threatens to reignite the curse. There are a few lovely images and ideas, but the character design is ghastly, the animation is inconsistent, the story meanders and the voice performances grate. D.B.

RBG

Julie Cohen and Betsy West direct this fawning and skin-deep documentary about octogenarian Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The film obligingly touches on but never examines the Wikipedia page bullet points of RBG’s life and work, including her childhood in Brooklyn, her education at Harvard and Columbia, her long marriage to fellow lawyer Martin D. Ginsburg, her early career as a women’s rights crusader, her 1993 appointment to the Supreme Court by President Clinton and her contemporary status as a liberal pop culture icon. We get a few humanizing glimpses of Ginsburg’s exercise routine, her devotion to opera and her extensive collection of lace collars, but she remains extremely guarded throughout, and her participation in this project feels half-hearted at best. Desperate to pad the running time to feature length, an inordinate chunk of this lightweight and unnecessary documentary is devoted to RBG memes and Kate McKinnon’s non-impression on SNL. D.B.

The Rider

Of all the rickety crutches that mediocre movies lean on, one of my least favorites is when a character expresses their cosmic ambivalence by gazing meaningfully into the empty distance. Like any trope, it can be used well, but indie filmmakers tend to overuse it as an all-purpose, fill-in-the-blanks placeholder for details, nuances and character development. In Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, the slightest twinge of emotional conflict sends the lead character outside to stare blankly into the sunlight, the twilight, the moonlight or even the “friscalating dusklight,” to borrow a phrase from Eli Cash. To be fair, that dusklight friscalates over the forbiddingly beautiful badlands of South Dakota, but those empty stares are almost too apt for a film with an offscreen story that is so much more interesting than the actual movie. Too bad Zhao spent more time contemplating the emptiness of the badlands than the emptiness of her own script. D.B.

Show Dogs

A New York police dog (voiced by Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) enters a Las Vegas dog show with his reluctant human partner (Will Arnett) to nail a gang of animal smugglers. Written by Max Botkin and Marc Hyman and directed by Raja Gosnell (who did much better with Beverly Hills Chihuahua—but then again he had a better script), this dreary time-andtalent waster seems to have been aimed at undemanding three-year-olds whose parents have more money and less sense than is good for them. Arnett and Natasha Lyonne (as another dog trainer entered in the same show) gamely go through the motions, forlornly resigned to playing second and third fiddle to a lot of semi-cheesy talking-animal effects and stale fart jokes. Supplying canine voices are the likes of Alan Cumming, Stanley Tucci, RuPaul and Shaquille O’Neal. J.L.

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Scavone on vocals and blues harp. Speaking from England, McCarty said he’s compelled to keep playing because he believes in the band’s wide-ranging repertoire. They play about 30 shows a year, a reasonable pace for McCarty, who is 74 years old. “I enjoy it so long as it’s not five nights a week for the entire year,” he said. Jim McCarty, center, with the Yardbirds’s newest lineup. McCarty is the sole remaining founding member of the Yardbirds. Bassist Paul SamwellSmith left the band in the ’60s to become a producer; The Yardbirds are widely considered one of the lead singer Keith Relf died from electrocution in most influential bands of all time. Rock historians 1976; and guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja recently credit the British group’s original run from 1963 suffered a series of strokes that left him unable to to 1968 with paving the way for the blues-based play his instrument. psychedelic, progressive and hard-rock bands that “He’s OK—he can do things and go out around dominated FM airwaves through the ’70s. London, but he can’t really travel on an airplane or Most famously, legendary lead guitarists Jeff play a gig anymore,” McCarty said of Dreja. “I just Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page used the group saw Chris and Jimmy Page because we put out an as a career-launching pad. After the Yardbirds split old album, Live at Anderson Theater, which was in 1968, Page formed the band that became Led recorded in 1968. Jimmy had done a remix of the Zeppelin, while Beck and Clapton went on to have original master and it sounded really good—much celebrated solo careers. And that’s no surprise to better than it was originally. He took all of the the Yardbirds’ drummer Jim McCarty, phony audience sound out of it.” The album based on his personal experiences includes The Yardbirds’ live take on with the three rock icons. “Once “Dazed and Confused,” a song “Jeff and Eric were solo originally written by Jake Holmes, you’re in that artists; they liked to call the which, at the behest of Page, shots,” he said during a high-pressure type became a staple of Led Zeppelin phone interview with the of lifestyle, all of your shows. SN&R. “They could be McCarty has a lifetime’s weaknesses come out, and difficult. Once you’re in worth of stories about the that high-pressure type I think they both found it Yardbirds and his tenure in of lifestyle, all of your very difficult to be a the progressive-rock band weaknesses come out, and Renaissance, many of which part of a team.” I think they both found it he tells in his new book, Nobody very difficult to be a part of Jim McCarty Told Me. He’s had plenty of time to drummer, The Yardbirds a team. They rather separated process the surreal fact that he manned themselves. Jimmy was more of a the drum kit for one of classic rock’s team member; he started as a session seminal acts—and watched first-hand as three player on old recordings in London, so he guitarists morphed into absolute monsters. was used to doing what people wanted. With us, he “The bar was quite high, and each one of them always very polite and accommodating. I don’t know was trying to live up to the one who came before,” he what he was like in Zeppelin, because that was more said. “Jeff and Jimmy were both in the band at one of his band.” point, always trying to outdo each other. That was a The Yardbirds will perform at Ace of Spades on funny time—but it sounded quite good, as well.” Ω Sunday, June 3. The current is lineup rounded out by lead guitarist Johnny A., guitarist/lead vocalist catch the yardbirds at 7 p.m. on sunday, June 3 at ace of spades, 1417 r John Idan, bassist Kenny Aaronson (known for his street. tickets are $32.50-$39.50. Learn more at www.aceofspadessac.com. work with Bob Dylan and Billy Idol) and Myke

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JEtHRO tuLL: The band on its 50th anniversary

tour. 8pm, $60-$99. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

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SUNDAY, 6/3 FiLiPiNO FiEsta: Enjoy a parade, lots of Filipino food, cultural exhibits, dance and youth activities in celebration of independence. 10am, no cover. Jose Rizal Community Center, 7320 Florin Mall Drive.

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Local performer Peter Petty will emcee the concert.

Party like the Beatles Quarry Park, 7:30 P.M., $25-$150 What’s your favorite song from the Sgt. Pepper album? I’m a sucker for simple love songs, so “When I’m Sixty-Four” Music is a close second behind the cliché “With a Little Help From My Friends” in my book. This weekend, local musicians will play the album, along with Revolver, in their entirety—but they won’t sound like you’ve heard them before. In celebration of 51 years since Sgt. Pepper’s release,

MUSIC FRIDAY, 6/1 BaRELY aLiVE: With Infekt. 8pm, $15-$21. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

KNOcKOut: With Free Minds Rising, the

Honest. 6pm, $5. The Silver Orange, 922 57th St.

suBHuMaNs: With Sick Burn, Love Songs. 7pm, $15. Holy Diver, 1517 21st S.

WaX iDOLs: With Screature, Creux Lies. 8pm, $10. The Red Museum, 212 15th St.

SATURDAY, 6/2 tHE BEatLEs sGt PEPPERs LONELY HEaRts cLuB BaND & REVOLVER, LiVE iN cONcERt: See event highlight above. 6:30pm, $25-$150. Platinum Living Amphitheater at Quarry Park, 4000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.

caRMicHaEL PaRK cOMMuNitY BaND FEstiVaL: One of the largest community band festivals in the state, this two-day event features 14 concert bands. Noon, no cover. Carmichael Park Amphitheater, 5750 Grant Ave. in Carmichael.

HaVENsiDE: Havenside’s comeback show, with Wastewalker, Desolist, Vice Versa and

this concert will feature emcee Peter Petty and former CAKE drummer Gabe Nelson as they perform to support the Sacramento Preparatory Music Academy. Come out for a one-of-a-kind performance and to support music education in local schools. 4000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin, beatlesinrocklin.eventbrite.com.

more. 6:30pm, $12-$14. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale.

tHE stRaNGE PaRtY: With Pug Skullz, Frack!,

Tim Williamson. 8pm, $6-$10. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

POPs iN tHE PaRK: The first Pops in the Park

MONDAY, 6/4

ROcK tHE LiNE FOLsOM 2018: Beer, music and

wine fundraiser. 5pm, $15-$25. Folsom Historic District, 850 Sutter Street, Folsom.

SUNDAY, 6/3 BRiaN sEtZER’s ROcKaBiLLY RiOt: With Miss Mary Ann and the Ragtime Wranglers. 7:30pm, $49-$95. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

caRMicHaEL PaRK cOMMuNitY BaND FEstiVaL:

See event listing on 6/2. 11am, no cover. Carmichael Park Amphitheater, 5750 Grant Ave. in Carmichael.

LiVE at JMsEY’s: A house show with The

Philharmonik, Tyler Lydell. 7pm, $10. Warehouse Artist Lofts (WAL), 1108 R St.

33 & BEYOND, tHE ROYaL aRt OF FREEMasONRY: A film that examines the structure of the American Masonic system, followed by a Q&A session with the writer/director. 7pm, $20. Sacramento Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H St.

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the soon-to-open Preservation Kitchen & Market. 10pm, no cover. The Jungle Bird, 2516 J St.

PEtER RaBBit: The library hosts a family film on the first Friday of the month. 4pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library (North

GREat sacRaMENtO VEGaN BuRGER BattLE: More than 30 restaurants in the region create custom vegan burgers and sides in various categories. See theveganchefchallenge.com for a list of locations. 10am, $10-$20. Greater Sacramento, Roseville, Auburn & Grass Valley, Greater Sacramento Area.

Sacramento-Hagginwood), 2109 Del Paso Blvd.

MONDAY, 6/4 tHE LaBYRiNtH: Look forward to goblins, sparkles, crotch-tight pants and hallucinogenic peaches in this 1980s Bowie flick. 8:30pm, no cover. The Firehouse 5, 2014 9th St.

SATURDAY, 6/2 FaiR OaKs ViLLaGE BENEFit BBQ: A night of food and music from Jessica Malone to support Fair Oaks Village. 6pm, $40 minimum donation. The BBQ Pro, 10136 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks.

$39.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

ELK GROVE cOMMuNitY cONcERt BaND: As part of a season-long celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday (in August), this performance will include an all-Bernstein program. 7pm, no cover. Laguna Town Hall, 3020 Renwick Ave. in Elk Grove.

GRaHaM-a-RaMa FEatuRiNG HaNNaH JaNE KiLE: Featuring Hannah Jane Kile with an album release. 7:30pm, $25-$30. Capital Stage, 2215 J St.

tODD RuNDGREN’s utOPia: Featuring Kasim

Sulton, Willie Wilcox. 7pm, $49-$371.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

WEDNESDAY, 6/6 cOZZ: Hip-hop artist. 7pm, $20-$60. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

JacKiE EVaNcHO: Vocalist. 7:30pm, $55-$95. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

PuNcH LiNE: Tin Foil Hat Comedy. Sam Tripoli,

and family friendly activities. 12pm, $50 entry fee. Tahoe Park, 3501 59th St.

GREat sacRaMENtO VEGaN BuRGER BattLE: See

event listing for 6/1. 10am, $10-$20. Greater Sacramento, Roseville, Auburn & Grass Valley, Greater Sacramento Area.

RiDE tO WaLK BEER aND WiNE tastiNG FEstiVaL:

ROcKLiN BREWFEst 2018: More than 35

breweries offer samples. 1pm, $30. Johnson-Springview Park, 5480 5th St. in Rocklin.

ROtaRY OF caMERON PaRK & EL DORaDO HiLLs 23RD aNNuaL WiNE at tOWN cENtER: An evening of wine tasting, food samples, live music and more. 6pm, $50. El Dorado Hills Town Center, 4364 Town Center Blvd. in El Dorado Hills.

sacRaMENtO tacO FEstiVaL: Tacos, chihuahua beauty contest, taco eating contest and more. 10:30am, $7-$10. Old North Sacramento, Del Paso Blvd. (between El Camino and Arden).

LauGHs uNLiMitED cOMEDY cLuB: Thai Rivera. Featuring Robert Omoto. through 6/3.

caRNE asaDa & saLsa cOOK-OFF: Bomb food

A fundraiser for Ride to walk’s therapeutic horseback riding program for kids with special needs. 2pm, $10-$35. 1630 CA-193, 1630 California 193 in Lincoln.

COMEDY $10. 1207 Front St.

party to benefit Chako Pitbull Rescue and Advocacy. 12pm, $10-$12. Porchlight Brewing Company, 866 57th St.

YaRDBiRDs: Michael Ray. 7pm, $32.50-

of the series features 9-piece ensemble, Ideateam. 6pm, no cover. East Portal Park, 1120 Rodeo Way.

THURSDAY, 5/31

and cocktails at special pricing as the program of films, guests and events for the Sacramento French Film Festival is announced. 4pm, no cover. Canon East Sacramento, 1719 34th St.

BaRKHaPPY sacRaMENtO: A dog-friendly

LiFE’s iLLustRatiONs VOL.2 casH FOR caNVas aRt & Music sHOWcasE: An event to highlight Northern California’s artists. 8pm, $10. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

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FRENcH FiLM FEstiVaL PROGRaM PREViEW PaRtY: Enjoy a special menu of appetizers

host of the conspiracy-themed podcast Tim Foil Hat brings his worldview to the stage. 7:30pm saturday, 6/2. $25-$28. HellaLarious. With Carlos Rodriguez. 8pm Wednesday, 6/6. $16. 2100 Arden Way, Ste 225.

sacRaMENtO cOMEDY sPOt: Kevin McDonald. Kids in the Hall star Kevin McDonald performs with Anti-Cooperation League. A Q&A with McDonald will follow the show. 9pm saturday, 6/2. $15. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

sKYROOM 2600 at cOuNtRY cLuB EVENt cENtER: Super Soul Saturday-A Night of Comedy & Music For Grown Folks. Gilbert Esquivel, Lulu Cardona and others perform. 9pm saturday, 6/2. $25-$250. 2600 Watt Ave.

ON STAGE caPitaL staGE: Marjorie Prime. The aging Marjorie is a jumble of fading memories, but in the age of AI, her handsome new companion will feed the story of her life back to her. through 6/3. $22-$47. 2215 J St.

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CHAuTAuQuA PLAYHOusE: Comedy of Tenors. A sequel

to the Ken Ludgwig farce, Lend Me a Tenor! Through 6/9. $19-$22. 5325, Carmichael.

PuNCH LINE: Life’s a Circus—A Clown Burlesque Revue. A mash up of standup comedy, burlesque and skits. 7pm sunday, 6/3. $16. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

THE GuILD THEATER: Convergence II, Episode III Convergence/Hello. An examination of the history of Oak Park through original music, dance, oral histories and film. This third event depicts the neighborhood’s transformation from the 1980s to today. 3pm sunday, 6/3. $10 suggested donation. 2828 35th St.

THREE PENNY PLAYHOusE: The Young Directors. Powerful one-act plays from young directors. Through 6/15. $15-$20. 1723 R St.

art ALPHA FIRED ARTs: Larry Carnes—A Whale of a Show. Forty pieces of sculpture and pottery inspired by a surreal dream. Through 6/2. 4675 Aldona Lane.

ARTsPACE1616: Masquerade. An art party with dancing, performances, art projections, light food and drinks. 7pm Friday, 6/1. $5 requested donation. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

MICRO GALLERY: Artworks by Felipe Davalos, El Maestro. His work, inspired by the pre-Columbian artists of his native Mexico, reflects history and visual storytelling. Through 6/16. No cover. 1200 S St., Suite D.

sMuD ART GALLERY: Wonder Women—An Exploration of Making Art While Raising Children. Sacramentoarea artists including Terry Atkinson, Julie Bjorgum, Esther Cheng and others use a variety of media to represent the joys and challenges of parenting while being an artist. Through 6/1. No cover. 6301 S St.

sACRAMENTO FINE ARTs CENTER: American Watercolor Traveling Exhibit. View some of the best watercolor painting in the country, including works by local artist Sandy Delehanty. Through 6/30. $10. 5330 Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

uRBAN HIVE: Splintered—New Works by Gale Hart. Using wood trunks and large branches, Gale Hart created a series of figurative sculptures ranging in size from 3-feet tall, to a 16-foot long installation. Through 6/2. No cover. 1601 Alhambra Blvd.

VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTs: The Met Art Show Fundraiser. Works by Met Sacramento High School’s studio art students. 6pm Friday, 6/1. No cover. 625 S St.

WAREHOusE ARTIsT LOFTs (WAL) PuBLIC MARKET: Head by Richard Munoz. Energetic and emotional paintings and drawings by the Chicago transplant will be on display in his first solo show. 6pm Friday, 6/1. No cover. 1104 R St.

AXIs GALLERY: Surveying the Prairie of a Room. Ben Hunt combines works of mixed media photographic and sculptural objects to explore the relationship between manufactured landscape, nature and interior space. Through 7/1. No cover. 625 S St.

BEATNIK sTuDIOs: Revelations from the Inner Landscape. New works by Akira Beard and Heidi Zimmerman. Through mid-July. No cover. 723 S St.

JAYJAY: Big Issues Small Pieces. Inspired by the #MeToo #TimesUp and #WeSaidEnough movements, this exhibit is an artistic platform to discuss the evolution around gender and power in our culture. Through 6/30, no cover. 5524 Suite B Elvas Ave.

KENNEDY GALLERY: 20/20 Meet and Greet Party. Meet the artists featured in Sacramento’s most prestigious small piece show. Friday, 6/1. No cover. 1931 L St.

MuSEuMS C.N. GORMAN MusEuM AT uC DAVIs: Contemporary Prints. Several large Native American print portfolios will be featured, as well as gifts by individual artists and collectors. Through 6/15. No cover. 1316 Hart Hall, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

CALIFORNIA MusEuM: The Newest Americans. A unique look at the U.S. and the immigration process through the eyes of 28 new citizens. Through 7/8. $9. 1020 O St.

CALIFORNIA sTATE ARCHIVEs: Alfred Eichler Art and Architecture in the Golden State. Architectural drawings and paintings from 1925 to 1962 are on exhibit. Through 1/31. No cover. 1020 O St., Fourth Floor.

Saturday, 6/2

Honored Elders Day California State indian MuSeuM, 10 a.M., no Cover

Let’s be real—public schools aren’t great about teaching indigenous history. A deep look at the values MusEuMs and practices of indigenous groups are often sacrificed for more superficial PHOtO COurtESy OF CaLIFOrNIa StatE ParKS lessons. On Saturday, bring your whole family to experience rich indigenous traditions through dance, performance, Indian tacos and items created by indigenous vendors. Gain a deeper appreciation of those who tended the land before colonization during the 41st Gathering of Honored Elders. 2618 K Street.

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Friday, 6/1Saturday, 6/2

Sacramento Black Book Fair Women’s CiviC improvement Center, various times, no Cover

Bookworms will have their pick PHOtO COurtESy OF SaCramEntO BlaCk BOOk Fair of writing workshops, author presentations, spoken word performances and book signings throughout historic Oak Park this weekend. The Sacramento Black Book Fair kicks off with a 6pm BookS opening reception at Underground Books. From there, venues like The Guild Theater and Brickhouse Art Gallery will host special events showcasing a spectrum of black literature. Saturday’s celebrations begin with the Books on Parade at 10am and features a Kids Zone where little ones can pick up books or bang on drums. Meet local writers and discover your next favorite author. 3555 Third Avenue, sacramentoblackbookfair.com.

CALIFoRNIA STATE INDIAN MUSEUM: Honor Elders Day.

SACRAMENTo SPCA Book SALE: See event listing for

CALIFoRNIA STATE RAILRoAD MUSEUM: Death Valley

WoRLD WAR I REVISITED: The library’s series of programs

See event highlight below. 10am Saturday, 6/2. No cover. 2618 K St.

Scotty’s Race for Glory Exhibit. The suspenseful story of Death Valley Scotty’s record-breaking, high-speed trip from LA to Chicago in 1905. Through 9/30. $6-$12. Weekend Excursion Train Rides. Enjoy a relaxing and memorable train ride along the Sacramento River. Through 9/23. $6-$24. Off the Rails Happy Hour. A trivia night with a backdrop filled with full-sized locomotives and interpretive exhibits. Through 6/23. $10-$12. 111 I St.

6/2. 11am, no cover. Sunrise Mall, 6041 Sunrise Blvd. in Citrus Heights.

on the war this week covers the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. 1pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library (Central), 828 I St.

tuESday, 6/5 READ To A DoG: Kids can read aloud to a trained

therapy dog. 3:30pm, no cover. McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd.

CRoCkER ART MUSEUM: Hopes Springing High—Gifts of African American Art. Works by Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Faith Ringgold and others are represented in this exhibit. Through 7/15. No cover-$10. 216 O St.

FoLSoM HISToRY MUSEUM: 100 Years of Fashion Accessories. Witness the change in trends between 1860 and 1960. Through 9/2. $4-$10. 823 Sutter St. in Folsom.

BOOkS Friday, 6/1 AUTHoR EVENT WITH DoDIE JoHNSToN: The author reads, discusses and signs her memoir, How Was China? 7:30pm, no cover. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

SACRAMENTo BLACk Book FAIR: See event highlight

above. 6pm, no cover. Underground Books, 2814 35th St.

Saturday, 6/2

SPOrtS & OutdOOrS tHurSday, 5/31 MAY IS BIkE MoNTH AFTER PARTY: Live music, beer and

more to close out May is Bike Month 2018. 5pm, $20$40. SacYard Community Tap House, 1725 33rd St.

Saturday, 6/2 5k RUN/WALk FUNDRAISER—WALTER F. BURNETT JR. MEMoRIAL SCHoLARSHIP: A walk/run fundraiser to raise scholarship money for high school and college students from single-parent, grandparent, foster parent or legal guardian households. 8:30am, $20. William Land Park, 3800 South Land Park Drive.

NATIoNAL TRAILS DAY: Enjoy a hike while you learn about wildlife and how you can help support local trails. 10:30am, $5. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way in Carmichael.

PUBLIC SWIM oPENING DAY: Grab your dog for water play and socialization. 10:30am, $10. The Animal Den Pet Resort, 4060 Power Inn Road.

BoGo Book SALE: Buy one, get one free book sale. Noon, no cover. Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange, 1414 21st St.

AUTHoR EVENT WITH FLoRENCIA RAMIREZ AND GARY SoTo: The two California authors read excerpts and discuss their latest works. 7:30pm, no cover. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

SACRAMENTo SPCA Book SALE: Buy some books

and support the Sacramento SPCA. 10am, no cover. Sunrise Mall, 6041 Sunrise Blvd. in Citrus Heights.

Sunday, 6/3 BoGo Book SALE: See event listing for 6/2. Noon, no cover. Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange, 1414 21st St.

takE aCtiOn tHurSday, 5/31 CANNABIS STAkEHoLDER MEETINGS: Join this monthly meeting to engage with the Office of Cannabis Policy & Enforcement. 2pm, no cover. 915 I St.

Friday, 6/1 WoMEN’S MARCH PoWER To THE PoLLS CALIFoRNIA RALLY: A march to get voters and volunteers excited for June 5. 5:30pm, no cover. California State Capitol—North Lawn, L Street between 12th and 13th streets.

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The acousTic den cafe

Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, $5

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PopRockz ’90s Night, 9pm, no cover

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Subhumans with Sick Burn 7pm Friday, $15 Holy Diver Punk

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Sunday Tea Dance Beer & Bust, 4pm, call for cover

Trapacana, 9pm, W, no cover

Dylan Crawford, 9:30pm, no cover

Sam Peter & The Village, 9:30pm, no cover

The Gatlin Birthday Bash, 9pm, $10

N-Men Summer Party ’18, 8pm, call for cover

Summer Tide with Lady Kate, 8pm, $5

Havenside, Wastewalker, Desolist, Vice Versa and more, 7:30pm, $12

Emery, ’68, 7pm, T, $20; He is We and more, 7pm, W, $12

Trivia, 6:30pm, M, no cover; Open-Mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover Of Feather and Bone, Defractor, Dearth, Voyer, 8pm, $10

Election Day Campaign Wrap Party, 6pm, T, no cover

Capitol Garage’s Next Drag Superstar, 8pm, no cover

Capitol Fridays, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm

Dinner and a Drag Show, 7:30pm, $5-$25

Geeks Who Drink, 8:30pm, W, no cover

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RuPaul’s Drag Race screening, 5pm, no cover

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The Pikeys, 8pm, call for cover

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Michael Blanchard and the Californios, 7pm, call for cover

The Road Brothers Band, Tracy Hui, 9pm, $5

Sarn, Chaki, SB the Moor, 9pm, $5

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Jessica Malone, 6pm, W, $10-$12 KTP, Sowers of Dissent, Spicy Hot Death Cult, 4pm, no cover

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Total Recall, 10pm, $5

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Island Vibes Reggae Night, 10pm, call for cover

The Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover; Geeks Who Drink, 7pm, T, no cover

Subhumans (UK), 7pm, $15

Riotmaker EP Release Show, 7pm, $10-$12

Indie vs. Hardcore, 6:30pm, $5

Cozz, 7pm, W, $20-$60

Kupros Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

Open-Mic, 8pm, T, no cover

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Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

Capitol PUNishment: A Pun Tournament, 8pm, $10

Clouds Rest, the New Crowns, 8pm, call for cover

Open-Mic Comedy, 7:30pm, T, no cover

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F81 x Igwe Aka, 6:30pm, $10

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Bourbon & Blues: Ben Rice Trio (Portland, OR), 7pm, W, $8-$28

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Americana Dance Party, 8:30pm, $5-$8

Whoville, Love Removal Machine, 8:30pm, $7

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mOnDay-weDnesDay 6/4-6/6 Live Music With Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30pm, M, no cover

Karaoke with Cammi and Country Day, 6pm, call for cover

Open 8-Ball Tournament, 7:30pm, $5 buy-in

Rooster Crows, 9pm, call for cover

Royal Oaks, 9pm, call for cover

Just Bill, 1pm, call for cover

Brewers Grade, 9:30pm, call for cover; Free Line Dance, 10:30pm, no cover

Freshmakers, 10pm, call for cover

Rock Monsters, 10pm, call for cover

Noxon Baand, 3pm, call for cover; Industry Night, 6pm, call for cover

George Napp, 9pm, no cover

Crecsent Katz, 9pm, no cover

Zorelli, 9pm, no cover

Alex Jenkins, 9pm, no cover

Really Funny Comedians Who Happen to be Women, 8pm, $16-$18

Eric Schwartz, 8pm, $20-$30; Mike E. Winfiield and Friends, 10:15pm, $18-$20

Tin Foil Hat Comedy night, 7:30pm, $25-$28

Life’s a Circus Clown Burlesque Revue, 7pm, $16-$20

Hella-Larios with Carlos Rodriguez, 8pm, W, $16 Open-Mic Comedy, 7:30pm, M, no cover

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Hot Country Saturdays, 7pm, $5-$10

Sunday Funday, 8pm, no cover

A California Classic Rock Face Off, 6pm, call for cover

Bump City, 6pm, $10

Spazmatics, 4pm, call for cover

Golden Cadillacs, 9pm, $10

Earles of Newton, 9pm, $10

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1520 Terminal sT., (916) 379-7585

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Malaki Seku-Amen has been working with the city of Sacramento on its equity program for communities impacted by the drug war. Photo by Michael Mott

Delayed dreams Victims of drug war wonder, where is justice? by Michael Mott

Merrell “Poison” Sanchez has the building. He has equipment. He even has some equipment. Now, he just needs the city to come through. Sanchez is an aspiring cannabis entrepreneur, one of a group with past cannabis convictions Sacramento promised would get extra resources after being locked up during the drug war period of American law enforcement. “I went to prison for weed. Not selling, just for having it” Sanchez said. “A couple bags: Placer County gave me 28 months for that.” Sanchez was going out with his 32

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cousin and some girlfriends before he was convicted in 2000, he said. That was the year California began loosening drug sentencing, allowing non-violent offenders to serve time in a drug treatment program. But not Sanchez. He went to prison. Eighteen years later, after preparing his business plan and meetings with investors, Sanchez wants the city to waive the thousands of dollars required for city fees so he can make a manufacturing business, creating cannabis oils and possibly, some cultivation. Five months after the city

council voted to create the Cannabis Opportunity, Reinvestment Equity Program, or CORE, the city is only now calling for consultants to operate a small-business support center to give Sanchez, and others like him, delayed after city attorneys realized Sacramento needed to conduct a study advocates had called for over a year ago. “They were saying, ‘We’re going to have the best equity program.’ Here it is, 2018, and we have nothing,” Sanchez said. The council will likely review the proposal and study any week now.

In the wake of the Stephon Clark shooting, Malaki Seku-Amen, a lead advocate pushing for the program and director of the California Urban Partnership, said the study’s limited nature and CORE’s delays add to a record of inequity for Sacramento’s black and brown communities. “For us, our pain stems from having the city treat equity as the dead last priority. Stephon Clark’s death is reminding us how the city keeps killing us. Every time there’s a delay in the implementation of the equity program, the city is leaving our community again in another era of poverty.” In a recent opinion piece in The Sacramento Bee, Seku-Amen called on the city to set aside more than the $1 million already promised for youth services and economic devleopment, to publicly plan to build economic health in Clark’s neighborhood and to speed DelayeD DreaMS continueD on Page 35

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FOR THE WEEk OF MAy 31, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): A critic described

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting the “Mona Lisa” as “the most visited, most written about, most sung about, most parodied work of art in the world.” It hasn’t been sold recently, but is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Today it’s kept in the world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris, where it’s viewed by millions of art-lovers. But for years after its creator’s death, it enjoyed little fanfare while hanging in the bathroom of the French King Francois. I’d love to see a similar evolution in your own efforts, Aries: a rise from humble placement and modest appreciation to a more interesting fate and greater approval. The astrological omens suggest that you have more power than usual to make this happen in the coming weeks and months.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): These days, many

films use CGI, computer generated imagery. The technology is sophisticated and efficient. But in the early days of its use, producing such realistic fantasies was painstaking and time-intensive. For example, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park featured four minutes of CGI that required a year to create. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will summon equivalent levels of old-school tenacity and persistence and attention to detail as you devote yourself to a valuable task that you love. Your passion needs an infusion of discipline. Don’t be shy about grunting.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On February 17,

1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev had an appointment with a local cheese-making company to provide his expert consultation. But he never made it. A blast of inspiration overtook him soon after he awoke, and he stayed home to tend to the blessed intrusion. He spent that day as well as the next two perfecting his vision of the periodic table of the elements, which he had researched and thought about for a long time. Science was forever transformed by Mendeleyev’s breakthrough. I doubt your epiphanies in the coming weeks will have a similar power to remake the whole world, Gemini. But they could very well remake your world. When they arrive, honor them. Feed them. Give them enough room to show you everything they’ve got.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ninety-five percent

of your fears have little or no objective validity. Some are delusions generated by the neurotic parts of your imagination. Others are delusions you’ve absorbed from the neurotic spew of other people’s imaginations. What I’ve just told you is both bad news and good news. On the one hand, it’s a damn shame you feel so much irrational and unfounded anxiety. On the other hand, hearing my assertion that so much of it is irrational and unfounded might mobilize you to free yourself from its grip. I’m pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to wage a campaign to do just that. June can and should be Fighting for Your Freedom from Fear Month.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During the next four weeks,

I’ll celebrate if you search for and locate experiences that will heal the part of your heart that’s still a bit broken. My sleep at night will be extra deep and my dreams extra sweet if I know you’re drumming up practical support for your feisty ideals. I’ll literally jump for joy if you hunt down new teachings that will ultimately ensure you start making a daring dream come true in 2019. And my soul will soar if you gravitate toward the mind-expanding kind of hedonism rather than the mind-shrinking variety.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Everyone has a unique

fate that’s interesting enough to write a book about. Each of us has at least one epic story to tell that would make people cry and laugh and adjust their thoughts about the meaning of life. What would your saga be like? Think about what’s unfolding right now, because I bet that would be a ripe place to start your meditations. The core themes of your destiny are currently on vivid display, with new plot twists taking your drama in novel directions. Want to get started? Compose the first two sentences of your memoir.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dear Oracle: I find

myself in the weird position of trying to decide between doing the good thing and doing the right thing. If I opt to emphasize sympathy and kindness, I may look like an eager-to-please wimp

with shaky principles. But if I push hard for justice and truth, I may seem rude and insensitive. Why is it so challenging to have integrity?—Vexed Libra.” Dear Libra: My advice is to avoid the allor-nothing approach. Be willing to be half-good and half-right. Sometimes the highest forms of integrity require you to accept imperfect solutions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have waited

long enough to retaliate against your adversaries. It’s high time to stop simmering with frustration and resentment. Take direct action! I suggest you arrange to have a box of elephant poop shipped to their addresses. You can order it here: tinyurl.com/ElephantManure. JUST KIDDING! I misled you with the preceding statements. It would in fact be a mistake for you to express such vulgar revenge. Here’s the truth: Now is an excellent time to seek retribution against those who have opposed you, but the best ways to do that would be by proving them wrong, surpassing their accomplishments, and totally forgiving them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Marketing

experts say that motivating a person to say yes to a big question is more likely if you first build momentum by asking them smaller questions to which it’s easy to say yes. I encourage you to adopt this slant for your own purposes in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to extend invitations and make requests that you’ve been waiting for the right moment to risk. People whom you need on your side will, I suspect, be more receptive than usual—and with good reasons—but you may still have to be smoothly strategic in your approach.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I bet you’ll be

offered at least one valuable gift, and possibly more. But I’m concerned that you may not recognize them for their true nature. So I’ve created an exercise to enhance your ability to identify and claim these gifts-in-disguise. Please ruminate on the following concepts: 1. a pain that can heal; 2. a shadow that illuminates; 3. an unknown or anonymous ally; 4. a secret that nurtures intimacy; 5. a power akin to underground lightning; 6. an invigorating boost disguised as tough love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was a kid

attending elementary schools in the American Midwest, recess was a core part of my educational experience. For 45 minutes each day, we were excused from our studies so we could indulge in free-form play—outdoors, if the weather was nice, or else in the gymnasium. But in recent years, schools in the U.S. have shrunk the time allotted for recess. Many schools have eliminated it altogether. Don’t they understand this is harmful to the social, emotional, and physical health of their students? In any case, Aquarius, I hope you move in the opposite direction during the coming weeks. You need more than your usual quota of time away from the grind. More fun and games, please! More messing around and merriment! More recess!

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20): For many years, actor Mel Blanc provided the voice for Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character who regularly chowed down on raw carrots. But Blanc himself did not like raw carrots. In a related matter, actor John Wayne, who pretended to be a cowboy and horseman in many movies, did not like horses. And according to his leading ladies, charismatic macho film hunk Harrison Ford is not even close to being an expert kisser. What about you, Pisces? Is your public image in alignment with your true self? If there are discrepancies, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make corrections.

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Jamie’s last wishes The second time I meet Jamie Murphy it’s 9:06 am at the Starbucks on Alhambra Boulevard and I offer to treat him to his usual morning fix: a Venti Caramel Frappuccino with an espresso shot and half a banana. The barista, as always, pours him extra froth into a tall cup, since, he says, the creamy texture helps with his stomach pains. Another barista mentions that they haven’t yet seen his clip on Channel 10 news, alongside the city council and Mayor Darrell Steinberg, advocating for Joshua House, a new hospice for homeless terminally ill men and women here in Sacramento. He’s been a regular lately, living across the street at the Motel 6 for about a month now, hoping for permanent housing and finding comfort in regular visits from his social worker, Lyfts to the local cannabis dispensary, and the immense support, love and assistance from the Sacramento community and his church. On a good day, Jamie is able to bask in the Starbucks’ outdoor space and finish his breakfast, but this isn’t one of his physically agile days. The pain becomes intolerable after my fourth question and we are forced to cut this interview after, ironically, 15 minutes. The first time we met he seemed vivacious and vulnerably showed me a letter from his doctor stating he has barely six months to live. Each day is unpredictable. Despite the fact that his pancreatic cancer has spread to his failing liver, and his body won’t be able to sustain another round of chemotherapy, minimizing his chances of survival, he resonates a sense of purpose. Still, in between sips, obviously swollen belly aching, both holding back tears, we manage to exchange some words. While I am hopeful for his recovery, this new grandpa, at 46, seems to be at peace with the idea of dying and hopes to at least make it to Universal Studios before his death, as well as to be a voice for so many homeless folks enduring similar situations in the city of Sacramento and beyond.

Jamie, so tell us a little bit about you. Well, I was born in Salinas. Born on January 29. I ended up in Sacramento because of housing. Just because it was cheaper here for me. I haven’t been back there in a long time. My mom actually died when she was 54 of pancreatic cancer. It was in 2005. I wasn’t

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long I can sit here honestly. When it’s time to go home, it’s time to go home.

able to be there when she passed away, and I took it pretty hard. Really hard. This is hereditary I believe … and now I’m dying.

How did you come to a point of being homeless? I was with my fiancé for about 11 years, and I got sick about 11 months ago, and I guess she just couldn’t handle seeing me ... seeing me die and stuff. It was tough for her, so I had to leave. That led to me being here, to this point of living at a motel.

How did you start getting help from the community, and how has that experience been for you? I really don’t know. I go to my doctors regularly, and now that have liver failure they stopped chemo, and now it’s just about them getting me comfortable and getting me hospice. I’ve been getting donations and I still need help with that, for food, clothing, everything a person needs to survive. I’ve got a GoFundMe page. All I have is what people give me. I’m extremely grateful for the community. Very grateful. I started going to church about three years ago, and a year ago, after I got sick, I got baptized, and the church has been very helpful in supporting me. The county is placing me in housing and looking to get me into a safe place to live so I can pass away. They are moving me to another hotel today on a 21-day voucher. Every 21 days the city renews it until I get housing. I’ve got a social worker helping to move me to another motel today. I’m really excited about finding a place.

So you’re 46 years old. I think a lot of us don’t realize our life can change in 11 months. We focus so much on material gain, but we could end up homeless or terminally ill tomorrow. What’s come to be more important to you? Yeah. I think the spiritual aspect of life is more important. This is only temporary. This body. Spirituality, that’s forever. It’s very important to make sure you’re all right with God. Put your trust in God, the way I’m doing right now, and somehow I’m being taken care of. I give all credit to God. Right now, my chest is hurting, my chest is killing me and I don’t know how

The first time we met, you mentioned you were on Channel 10 talking to the mayor about Joshua House. What is it exactly? It’s the first hospice in Sacramento for homeless people, to get them off the streets and into a safer environment. It’s about getting people in my situation in a place where they are safe and can die with dignity and peace, and that’s all I want. That’s all I want for these people.

I know you’re going through a lot of physical pain right now, but what helps you cope and feel better? The medications they give me, most definitely help with the pain management. Other than that, I smoke cannabis. So I’m 420 friendly and I really believe that has really helped a lot too. I do think that those medications help. Especially people that have terminal illness. I’m all for that. I’m for anything that will help people for whatever needs, whatever problems, they have. I want people to have the same chances. I want people to just be safe.

I love your tattoos! What’s the name on your neck? Thats of my ex, Samira. She was one of the most important parts of my life. I don’t see her much. I think she’s with someone else. I’ve got a 28-year-old daughter named Megan, and on January 9 she had a baby, and I’m a grandpa. (Smiles.) They live in Chico, and I haven’t seen them in a while.

Any wishes you wish to express? Oh man, I would love to go to Universal Studios before I pass away. Pretty much I just wanna be in a safe place to pass away. I don’t think I have long, I mean, I really don’t feel good. The doctor said it will kill me if they do chemo and I’m just hoping that I get in somewhere before I pass. I just want people to continue to support Joshua House and help people get out the streets and into safer spaces. Ω

If you would like to give Jamie Murphy a gift, visit gofundme.com/cancer-is-not-cool.

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