next on kqed "newsroom" -- dynasty on display. the bay area celebrates another world series win for the unstoppable san francisco giants. and down to the finish line, what's at stake in next week's election? will california be the first to have drug testing for doctors? will berkley be the first in the nation to tax soda? plus, competitive races, including a state assembly seat representing san francisco. >> david and other people in city hall have rolled out the corporate red carpet for people like air b & b. companies like google so every low-income kid -- >> let's not monopolize. ♪

>> good evening and welcome to kqed "newsroom." i'm thuy vu. after knocking off the kansas city royals in game seven of the world series, the san francisco giants are the talk of the town. friday's parade was a sea of black and orange as fans backed market street, cheering a team that defied the odds to capture their third championship in five years. >> oh, i love them all. i love buster, hunter, i love all their personalities. >> it's been an amazing journey for a club many counted out after injuries and a nasty losing streak left them struggling during the summer. scott schafer spoke with knbr pre and post game giants host marty lurie about this group of warriors and what's next for them.

>> marty lurie, welcome. >> thank you. >> what an incredible october for the giants and their fans. you were at the parade today. you were in the parade today. what is it about this team and its connection with the people who live in san francisco and the bay area? >> well, in a way it's sort of an underdog team. no one gives them much credit. they win two world series and no one picks them to win this world series. it's a real team of teamwork. they've pulled together, and as i say, it's 25 people, 25 stories. we like that in northern california. we're an area that works together. we try to work together. we know how to do things in northern california, and i think this team works that way. >> somebody said they play for the name on the front of the shirt, not the name on the back, which i think is a nice way to say it. >> yeah, there's no "i" in team, as they like to say. it's a team. >> a lot was said about madison bumgarner, of course, incredible story for the ages, 4-0 in the

world series, .25 e.r.a. what's his future, what's his potential? >> number one, the records he's set as a world series pitcher go back to koufax, gibson, put you in some perspective of who he is today. if he stays healthy, he is a potential hall of fame pitcher, another carl hubble, another juan marashell. winningwise, if he wins 220, 230 games, he could be a hall of famer because he's already aced the black ink test, which he is a postseason hero. >> yeah. i wonder what you think of this. he played so much in part because the other pitchers, peavy, hudson, lincecum, vogelsong, weren't really up to the task. is there a way in which he papers over some of the problems the team faces going forward? >> in some way, but they know that. they know they have an older pitching staff, an older rotation that has to be worked

on next year, but keep in mind he can only pitch once every fourth day, so you have to get the other people pitching. they were fortunate in the playoffs that they never had to go back to the other two in a playoff. now in the world series they did. they had to go back to peavy and hudson, but bumgarner saved them in the seventh game. they know they have work to do next year. >> this is also a story this season of rookies. this is not the team that started the season. joe panik, they were home grown guys, they came from the farm team, right? how does that differ from other teams like, say, the dodgers? >> well, they invest in the farm system. when they get a number one pick, look at matt cain, bumgarner, posey, they are number one picks and they make it. brandon belt, who was a draft pick, as well. matt duffy came up from aa and he knows how to play the game. he's a baseball player. >> and a runner. >> he can score from second on a wild pitch, which is good, and

got a good pinch hit, too, but the one is joe panik. he made one of the plays in the world series that may be one of the greatest defensive double plays ever started in the world series. he came up, hit .300. he is, as i say, a baseball player. number one pick out of st. johns. they get him ready in the minor leagues to play baseball under the big lights and they come through. >> yeah, there were so many tremendous moments in this season and the postseason. ishikawa's home run, another guy who was a castoff, cut, thinking of leaving baseball. but this is also going forward now, there are a lot of free agents on this team. number one, of course, the panda, pablo sandoval, the third baseman. what do you think is going to happen, what's it going to take to keep him, and will the giants try? >> it's a really tough question. two months ago probably he'd be gone. now that they've won a world series and he's one of the greatest world series hitters in history, there's a real push to keep him. the market will tell the story, scott, and what happens when the

big boys want a player, it's the dodgers, it's the red sox, it's the cubs, it's the yankees, they generally outbid you, and i think for a team like the giants, they will have a mark for panda, probably $90 million or so, and will have to see what the market does, but they are prepared for what his market is going to be. >> is there a sentimental connection that keeps players in a city, because they are willing to give up some money? >> absolutely, today, seeing him at the parade and on the stage and mayor ed lee saying, stay here, panda. and he's waving to the crowd, he is a beautiful connection to san francisco, but money talks in baseball. the union has a big part of that, and they generally go where the most money is. now in it's only a couple million dollars, they may stay, but if it's $30 million, they'll go where the money is. >> three rings in five years, you've got three rings in five years. that's a heavy, heavy ring. >> it is. it's heavy in many ways.

it's a testament to me. it's an honor to get it for my love of baseball for my whole life and i get it because of the fans and being on the radio and how they respond, but it is a symbol of the supremacy of your year in baseball. as i always say, when you win a world series, you have a new member of the family. 2014 will be a member of our giants family and our personal family forever. >> you know, the odds makers are already looking to 2015 and who's the favorite, the dodgers. >> right. >> this is a team that doesn't look as good on paper as they do on the field. >> this time of year they look for pitchers and teams sort of complete. and they look at the nationals with their great pitching staff and the dodgers with all their stars, so it's a team right now that will go 100 miles an hour, giants going 80, maybe need a pit stop, but when all is said and done, best team wins. >> that's right, marty lurie, thanks so much. how many days until spring training? >> about 172, i think. >> thanks so much. >> pleasure.

well, shifting gears now to next week's election. with days to go, campaigns are vying for voters' attention. governor jerry brown, well ahead of republican contender neel kashkari in the polls, is stumping for props 1 and 2. criminal justice reform and health care are also on the state ballot, plus two local measures proposed to tax soda. several key races remain competitive, from mike honda and ro khanna's battle for a congressional seat in silicon valley, to the mayor's race in oakland. our panelists are -- corey cook with the university of san francisco. carla marinucci, san francisco chronicle senior political writer. and scott detrow, kqed sacramento bureau chief. karla, let's start with you. what are some of the more combative ballot measures and what's behind that? >> headlines next week is going to be on the ballot measures. look, this could be the state

that's the first in the nation to pass a soda tax, both in san francisco and berkley. it could be the first state in the nation to mandate drug testing of doctors, proposition 46. huge expensive battle, and you talked about propositions 1 and 2, jerry brown's out there stumping for those. that's the only thing he's out there stumping for. he's coasting along in this election. i think the wild card with all these ballot measures and tons of money has been thrown at them is who's going to turn out to vote for this, because a lot of people have said you got an electorate that's disengaged, they are angry, they are not into this election, and part of it is because jerry brown's race at the top seems like such a slam dunk for him. >> who do you think will turn out, are there studies done on that, corey? >> well, we do know the electorate is going to be older, wealthier, better educated than the electorate in a presidential

year, less diverse, more conservative, but some people are anticipating the lowest turnout for general election in california history, 50%. could be the worst turnout we see in california. i think if it gets that low, all bets are off in terms of how this plays out, particularly in the state superintendent race or two democrats running against each other, race with two republicans. i don't think we know how a turnout will affect those races. >> when you look at the data coming in from people who voted early, you see, which is typically the case in midterm elections, republicans are outperforming their overall voter registration and that goes with the trend republicans, conservatives, are typically more likely to vote in off-year elections. i covered a rally today this week, president bill clinton was there stumping for two democratic congressional candidates and was basically begging the young democratic college kids who showed up. you have to come to the polls. you can't just vote for presidents. you need to vote these years, too. >> that is one of the wild cards

in this whole thing. you have two-thirds of the california voters asked to vote by mail. this campaign's been going on for, like, a month. there is worry, are the millennials going to come out, are african-american and latino voters going to come out, and at this point some of the races with two democrats, such as the honda khanna race, are republicans going to come out? all are going to be interesting to watch on tuesday. >> speaking of the ro khanna/mike honda race, that's an interesting one. that could reshape silicon valley, depending how it turns out. >> i think it's an important race and not getting enough attention. this is the future battle within the democratic party. the tech versus the old school labor democrats, and i think this becomes a template for future elections statewide in california. i think this is the fissure within the democratic party. it used to be sort of the labor democrat would run against a pro business democrat, the old d.l.c., clinton democrats, but now it's about tech, issues around affordability and other

things happening at the local level. i think this is all playing out in an interesting election likely determined by republican and state voters in this race. >> also an interesting thing on where the republican party goes, because we watch just as that one talks about where's the democratic party going, the governor's race in some ways, neel kashkari, a pro choice, pro gay marriage candidate, tried to make the case he wanted to remake the republican party. you've seen him on the stump, scott, he's had some controversial moments in this race, and that is going to be, i think, what we're going to be watching. did he really move the ball forward in terms of the republican party in california? go ahead. >> i think that's a good question. last week on the california report i was having a conversation with other kqed reporters about how proposition 2, the rainy day fund measure, was kind of underperforming in the polls compared to what a lot of people expected. and the argument was this is a bipartisan issue, republicans endorsed it just as much as

democrats, but the only person you see campaigning is jerry brown. republicans don't have a prominent person to stump for prop 2. then there was the realization they don't have anybody who could fill the role. who is the face of the california republican party, it's not clear. neel kashkari kind of stumbled this year. i think you could make the argument. there was a big push the candidate for state comptroller could be the future face of the republican party, but if you look at the money she's raised for this election, she's not gotten to the point i think a lot of republicans were hoping for her and there's a question of whether she'll make it competitive next week. i think republicans do have a lot of questions and there's not a clear person to point to as that's the next republican governor candidate. >> why is jerry brown putting so much effort into props 1 and 2? his campaign has spend $3.3 million on ads, meanwhile only spent about half a million on his own campaign. he hasn't run a single tv add. >> carla was there, as well, his kickoff campaign event in the

east bay on monday. i check my calendar, this is the first event of the season and it's october 20-something. brown made the argument, look, i'm running for my fourth term, people know who i am, what i'm for, what i'm against, i don't have to sell myself, but you wonder if he's trying to prove some sort of point. he's almost gone out of his way to not campaign. he's not even going to have a campaign rally on election night. he's really taking it to extremes. >> it's so unusual. we didn't hear talk about here's my agenda for the next term, he really didn't lay anything out at all. you're right, he didn't have to, didn't have to spend the money or expend the energy, which shows how unusual this campaign has been in california. >> eight years ago you have a national election, president who's unpopular at the lowest level of support across the country, democrats pick up six seats in the senate, 30 seats in the house, governor schwarzenegger wins in california, the sweep doesn't affect california.

this time around republicans picking up five to eight seats in the senate, picking up gains again in the house of representatives, and we're having this nonelection in california in the governor's race. pretty remarkable. >> some democrats are not happy with jerry brown because they feel because there's no big fancy sexy race at the top, that people are just going to be bored and not turn out. some of these democrats are going to lose and we're talking about the super majority being at stake. this is an issue where jerry brown could get some heat from his own party, but then again he doesn't care. >> a little bit of strategy in doing this race on the cheap that he's talked about, that he wants to go into his second term with as big of a war chest as possible. now he has more than $20 million that he's raised that he hasn't spent and that $20 million he can use to fight for propositions if he can't get something through the legislature or other political needs in a second term. >> let's talk a little about the

state school superintendent race, as well, tom torlakson against marshall tuck. that's neck and neck, 28%, with 44% undecided. >> that is a wild race. it's just millions of dollars thrown into this race. i think $10 million against marshall tuck alone. tom torlakson being the incumbent there. teachers union very much behind him. this is a race that you have a democrat versus democrat. it's a nonpartisan race, but the fact is, another race that may define where the democratic party is going. >> right, because torlakson is backed by the teachers union and tuck, who's got the backing of more conservative folks and the republicans. >> and this is not the only race where teachers unions have weighed in. we have local races, too, in the east bay, katherine baker against tim sowbranty. teachers union weighed in big for him as a democrat. >> speaking of locally, oakland mayor's race, corey, that's

crazy. 15 candidates. >> 15 candidates. most recent polling shows three in more or less a dead heat. jean quan, rebecca kaplan, citywide elected councilwoman, changes the race, frankly i'm not sure if the governor's endorsement or what's happened since, but suddenly we've had this race emerge as three-candidate race, voters get to rank their top three choices. trying to figure out how to do that strategically, which is a different dynamic. >> do voters know how rank choice voting works? >> i think voters get the basic idea they should list their favorites, right, they have a first choice, second choice, third choice. i don't think they have any comprehension how the ballots are tallied. as a result you get theories,

maybe there are good ways of gaming the system and there are not. for voters, the strategy is rank your top choices in order of preference and it works out that way. there's a lot of confusion and conversation about it in oakland. >> definitely not a sleepy election at all. >> no, one of those races where, yeah, absolutely the voter confusion, the mud slinging, we've seen it. kind of mud slinging in the chiu/campos race in san francisco, as well. the amount of stuff voters are getting in their mailbox is just confusing them, turning them off. it's going to be an election to watch. >> sometimes voters don't know where the mailers are coming from, dark money, unreported sources of spending. >> that's right. the estimate is something like $35 million in independent expenditures spent in this election that has completely muddied the waters. >> good sounding names where the money came from. >> okay, all right. you guys are always such a lively bunch. thank you, carla marinucci, corey cook, and scott detrow. thank you. well, turning now to the

state assembly seat that represents about half of san francisco on the eastern side of the city, carla mentioned it, the two candidates have worked together for years on the board of supervisors, now david chiu and david campos, both candidates are progressive democrats with a lot in common, but they are calling attention to their differences. david chiu supported a tax break for tech giant twitter in exchange for setting up shop in the blighted mid market area. he also sponsored regulate but allowing short-term rentals made popular by air b and b. david campos is an outspoken advocate for affordable housing and rental protection. also voted to keep sheriff ross mirkarimi. >> supervisor chiu, campos,

thanks for being here. you're both harvard educated lawyers, both progressive democrats, you have families of immigrants that you're part of, you both have the first name david, and same initials. so what's the biggest thing that distinguishes you from each other? >> i think the biggest difference between david and i was just illustrated about what happened with air b and b. there's a fundamental difference between what david did and i did. >> regulation? >> i'm not surprised mayor lee endorsed it, because i think they agree in that approach, where i disagreed with david chiu is that the city legalize short-term rentals, and i'm for short-term rentals, but it didn't require the very basic thing that every business has to do, which is to pay $25 million in back taxes, and it's the same people benefitting from that that are now funding the campaign against me. >> that was a criticism, back taxes, some say $25 million, i think, why did you not support that, why was that not part of

the final legislation? >> let me first talk about the fact, the fact of the matter is, he's absolutely wrong about the back tax issue. i have absolutely supported collecting all taxes on this. all that my legislation does is require for the first time online hosting platforms to collect and deliver what will be tens of millions of dollars of taxes, potentially $50 million over the next few years, and there is absolutely nothing to the lie put out my legislation doesn't collect back taxes. in fact, our respected tax collector said he doesn't need new powers. >> air b and b has been very slow. >> absolutely, and i'm the person who ensured taxes were paid. >> don't take it from david campos. >> let me change the subject a little bit, the twitter tax cuts in 2011 that passed the board 8-3. you were a big supporter. you opposed it. three years later, would you say that the city or twitter got a better deal, david, and when i say the city, city residents. >> absolutely the city. in 2011 we were, our economy was

stalled. we had tens of thousands of folks out of work, and the area in the market, the tenderloin area was blighted, commercial vacancy rates were at its height, what we did was created thousands and thousands of jobs and it cost our city about $5 million of revenue a year. we saw $1.5 billion in new revenues come to the city to pay for government services. >> the facts don't support that. the fact is, san francisco has the fastest growing inequality in this country and the prosperity david is talking about, the benefits that twitter got, are benefits that have not flowed down to most san franciscoens. ask the residents of that neighborhood and they'll tell you they have not benefitted the way they were promised. >> would it have been better for twitter to go to bris bane? >> listen, i believe we can pride tax breaks as long as there's a requirement to do something. >> there was a requirement, wasn't there? >> there was no community benefits agreement. in fact, the citizens advisory board"o that oversaw the tax brk

has criticized it. >> there was a comptroller study that's come out that shows that the tax policy changes were absolutely successful in doing what we wanted to see. we have seen these companies not only create tens of thousands of jobs in san francisco, we've seen a billion and a half dollars of new tax revenues that have come in to take care of the most vulnerable. >> is it the role of government to sort of change the market, do you think? >> absolutely, we did not get to where we are because of macro economics. we've rolled out the corporate red carpet for people like air b and b and not surprising those same people are spending $800,000 against me in exchange for what they got from david chiu. >> we've got janitors, security guards, food and security workers, who know they have jobs today because we've moved the economy forward. if it were up to david, we'd be stuck in the great recession. >> what does this all say about the two of you and in your case you, supervisor chiu, about what

your priorities would be in sacramento? what would you try to do? >> my top priorities, first and foremost, moving forward an affordable housing agenda for the past six years, didn't just focus on it this year like david. we've been working to build more affordable housing in san francisco. david voted against 20,000 new units of housing, including low income affordable housing. i've been moving this agenda. if all goes well for me on november 4th, i want to go to sacramento to be able to bring back the resources we need to build more affordable housing. on top of that, we have some of the most dangerous streets in the state when it comes to pedestrians and cyclists, and we have to get more funding for our schools. we should reform prop 14 to get more revenue. >> clearly, affordability has to be the top priority, but i want to talk about three other issues, which i think are the reason why the educators, the teachers, the faculty at

different colleges are supporting me. i think education is the civil rights issue of the day and we need to improve our public schools, we need to have preschool for every child in california, and i also want to deal with the issue of inequality and specifically gender inequality. we just introduced landmark legislation that finally addresses the fact that a woman still makes 77 cents on the dollar, if you're an african-american woman 64 cents, latina, 56. state level and have equal pay for equal work. >> my sense that you guys, in some ways, you feel government should have a lighter role in regulating and overseeing and sort of getting into the market, and you, david, you're more of a free muni for kids, restrictions on landlords, those kinds of things. heavy involvement, which sometimes the courts throw out. so i'm wondering, you know, is that a fair assessment? are you going to go to sacramento with that sort of agenda? >> i think the reason why tom ammiano is supporting me and the

reason is not just because he wants to continue this lgbt representation in sacramento, but because this is the most progressive district in the entire state of california. we need someone who's going to be a champion for regular people. the reason why david's campaign is being funded by more than any other campaign is because the corporate interests know that with david they are going to have a friend. >> short on time, but i'm going to give you a quick, quick, quick rebuttal to that. >> the reason why the san francisco chronicle endorsed me, african-american newspaper, sun endorsed me, lgbt bay area reporter as well as a chinese news reporter, i have been effective for everyone, not just one special interest or the other, i've been endorsed by the school employees association, tenants association. >> air b and b, yes. >> we're going to leave it there. supervisor chiu, campos, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. and that is all for tonight. for more election coverage, including our guide to ballot

initiatives, go to kqed.org/election. i'm thuy vu, thanks so much for joining us. have a good night.

>> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, november, 2: a new climate change report warns of irreversible damage unless fossil fuels are phased out. the democrats and republicans make last-minute appeals for votes in tuesday's midte