The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board has endorsed Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and former state senator, in the race for California\u2019s 6th Congressional District. The board cited his defense of vaccine science and decades of service to the Sacramento region as deciding factors.<\/p>\n
FULL STORY: Endorsement: The Bee picks one standout for the 6th Congressional District | Opinion<\/a><\/p>\n Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n The crowded field includes Democrats Pan, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho, West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero and Planned Parenthood executive Lauren Babb-Tomlinson, plus current Rep. Kevin Kiley, who recently switched from Republican to \u201cNo Party Preference.\u201dThe newly drawn district, reshaped by Proposition 50, will include Rocklin, Roseville, Citrus Heights, West Sacramento and large portions of northern and eastern Sacramento \u2014 making Kiley\u2019s seat far less safe than his previous 3rd District.The endorsement hinged on H.R.1, President Trump\u2019s budget law. Kiley touted its tax relief, while Pan pointed to Congressional Budget Office estimates of $911 billion in Medicaid cuts over 10 years and roughly 10 million Americans losing health coverage by 2034.Pan founded Communities and Physicians Together and co-founded \u201cHealthy Kids Healthy Future,\u201d which provides health, dental and vision coverage to more than 65,000 children in the Sacramento region.Time magazine called Pan a \u201chero\u201d in 2015 for legislation that boosted school vaccination rates and helped halt a measles outbreak. He faced assault, harassment and stalking during his COVID-era public health work in 2020.<\/p>\n The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The full story in the link at top was reported, written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board has endorsed Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and former state senator, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-339037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}