{"id":343161,"date":"2026-06-02T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:23:28","slug":"its-election-day-heres-how-folks-feel-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343161\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Election Day. Here&#8217;s how folks feel about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This story was featured in our SacramenKnow newsletter.\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/know\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/know\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Sign up to get updates about what\u2019s happening in the region<\/a>\u00a0in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Election Day and CapRadio reporters have been talking to Sacramentans about their feelings on the primary. Here&#8217;s what people had to say:<\/p>\n<p>Alina Rahman, 28, Land Park resident, state worker<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060226alina-rahman_060126.jpg\" alt=\"Alina Rahman outside a coffee shop near Sacramento\u2019s Land Park neighborhood. June 1, 2026.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/03d600ebc148402583494f8b9f43ae10\"\/>Alina Rahman outside a coffee shop near Sacramento\u2019s Land Park neighborhood. June 1, 2026.Laura Fitzgerald\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI care about the well-being of state workers and pay raises and return to office, so I would like to see a governor candidate who acknowledges the workers who fuel California\u2019s economy, and I know that\u2019s not only state workers, but we are the ones working in all the departments that fuel the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeff, 47,\u00a0Downtown Sacramento resident,\u00a0veteran<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060226eastsac-electionpics-1.jpg\" alt=\"Retired veteran and downtown Sacramento resident Jeff, 47, Thursday, May 28, 2026, at East Portal Park in East Sacramento.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799.8046875\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/7dac7a8edab24914a6696e2711296495\"\/>Retired veteran and downtown Sacramento resident Jeff, 47, Thursday, May 28, 2026, at East Portal Park in East Sacramento.Gerardo Zavala\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just looking at California as a whole getting worse and worse\u2026 The jobs are leaving, crime and homelessness are increasing. Although out in the Midwest, I\u2019m seeing things getting really nice out there. I\u2019m planning on moving out there myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jazely Pe\u00f1a, 30, Midtown resident, mental health professional<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060226jazely.jpg\" alt=\"Jazely Pe\u00f1a, a 30-year-old Midtown Sacramento resident and mental health professional, poses for a portrait outside Tupi Coffee on Friday, May 29, 2026.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/a5ec5d8f698b4fe69150ef85ff0f816d\"\/>Jazely Pe\u00f1a, a 30-year-old Midtown Sacramento resident and mental health professional, poses for a portrait outside Tupi Coffee on Friday, May 29, 2026. Pe\u00f1a says her mother&#8217;s immigration from Mexico has shaped how she views issues like immigration.Tony Rodriguez\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom was born in Sinaloa. She came here when she was 18. I spent a lot of time in Mexico and grew up in a Spanish-speaking household. It&#8217;s definitely important to think about immigration and how we&#8217;re being treated moving forward. Growing up, it was never something that we talked about until Trump. Then we started talking more about politics. I think I&#8217;ve seen more of a push to vote because of all of the injustices that have been seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carissa Dodge, 42, Midtown resident, social worker<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060226carissa-and-james-dodge_p.jpg\" alt=\"Carissa Dodge and her husband, James Dodge, outside a coffee shop near Sacramento\u2019s Land Park neighborhood. June 1, 2026.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/9de9dd6cb62b4b6a940da9d6323aa192\"\/>Carissa Dodge and her husband, James Dodge, outside a coffee shop near Sacramento\u2019s Land Park neighborhood. June 1, 2026.Laura Fitzgerald\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just felt like we got so overwhelmed with so many Democratic nominees [for governor] that it was really hard to kind of weed through all of them and I really hate that about the Democratic Party because I feel like they just can\u2019t get it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Garland, 39, Sacramento\u00a0resident,\u00a0unhoused<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060226christopher.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Garland in Oak Park across from Aggie Square. May 29, 2026.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"993.1488078925734\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/8d685eeb622849dfad76eea83e5bf551\"\/>Christopher Garland in Oak Park across from Aggie Square.Riley Palmer\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve actually never voted. \u200aThe last time I was gonna vote, that was about six years ago, I\u00a0 went to the wrong district. I\u2019m in transit and based off that, I haven\u2019t&#8230;\u200aMy main focus is unity. When there&#8217;s unity I believe a society will [thrive]. And so that&#8217;s what, that&#8217;s what I would focus on, is unifying everyone so we&#8217;ll be on the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcie Linggi, retired nurse, and Chris Linggi, high school instructor, East Sacramento residents<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060226_eastsac-electionpics-2.jpg\" alt=\"East Sacramento couple Marcie and Chris Linggi Thursday, May 28, 2026, at East Portal Park in East Sacramento. The two were born and raised in Sacramento and have lived in the neighborhood for nearly seven decades.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799.8046875\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/3d07d87bb4b34e7fb10904f3137013a1\"\/>East Sacramento couple Marcie and Chris Linggi Thursday, May 28, 2026, at East Portal Park in East Sacramento. The two were born and raised in Sacramento and have lived in the neighborhood for nearly seven decades.Gerardo Zavala\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not really a matter of left or right, it\u2019s like who\u2019s going to be honest. We\u2019ve got the fourth largest economy on the planet and there\u2019s homeless people a block from here. Why? It doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0-Marcie Linggi<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow colleges are having to reteach basic math. Everybody gets A\u2019s, they get sent to college and they can\u2019t perform\u2026 The last few years [I\u2019ve been] teaching at a high school construction trades, It\u2019s very frustrating because nobody could read a tape measure to save their life, and these are seniors in high school who can\u2019t do fractions\u2026\u00a0 You try to take their phone away from them and it\u2019s like you\u2019re killing them.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0-Chris Linggi<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                Follow us for more stories like this<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<\/p>\n<p>CapRadio provides a trusted source of news because of you. \u00a0As a nonprofit organization, donations from people like you sustain the journalism that allows us to discover stories that are important to our audience. 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