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Pan lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children. Pan's parents were immigrants to the United States from Taiwan.
Pan lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children. Pan's parents were immigrants to the United States from Taiwan.


==Carpet Bagging, Per Diem and Representation Controversies==

After redistricting placed him in the same district as Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, Richard Pan decided to move to another Assembly District to run for the vacant 9th District. <ref>http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/10/richard-pan-to-seek-south-sacramento-county-assembly-seat.html</ref> Although most understood that this was a fairly common byproduct of the redistricting process, Pan angered many by opening a committee to run for the State Senate the very next day after he was elected to represent AD7. <ref>http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/11/richard-pan-opens-senate-committee----one-day-after-assembly-win.html</ref> The controversy grew when it was discovered that Pan, himself a doctor and his wife a dentist, had requested that he be paid a $142 living expense meant to assist out of town lawmakers with food and housing costs while in Sacramento, in order to help pay for his second home just a few miles from the Capitol <ref>http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/06/assemblyman-richard-pan-takes-per-diem-after-move-across-sacramento.html</ref> Most Sacramento Area legislators (including Beth Gaines, Mariko Yamada, Roger Dickinson, Ken Cooley, Darrell Steinberg, Beth Gaines and Lois Wolk) decline the perk.<ref>http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/12/ken-cooley-joins-six-other-capital-legislators-in-nixing-per-diem.html</ref>

On March 13, 2013, the Sacramento Bee reported that Pan did not actually live in the new home he was charging to the taxpayers of California but continued to live in the Assembly District 7 home from where he had supposedly moved <refhttp://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/13/5257969/sacramento-lawmaker-mostly-absent.html</ref> and was having his mail forwarded from his legal address to his former home.<ref>http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130413/A_NEWS/304130319/-1/A_NEWS14</ref> Parts of his new Assembly Pan's new district also complained that he was refusing to represent them because they were outside of the Senate District for which he was now running.<ref>http://www.recmicordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130926/A_NEWS/309260318/-1/A_NEWS13</ref>

Finally, only a year after having one a seat in the Assembly representing District 9, Pan legally moved back to the District 9 home where he had lived the entire time.<ref>http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/29/6109672/editorial-sen-wright-should-quit.html</ref>

==Perjury and Voter Fraud==

Many thought Pan's carpet bagging was a clear violation of state law and should be prosecuted. <ref>http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitol-alert-insider-edition/2013/03/editorial-da-should-get-to-bottom-of-pans-residency-is-assemblyman-flouting-the-law.html</ref> After all, Senator Rod Wright had been convicted and sentenced to jail for the exact same thing <ref>http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-rod-wright-20140913-story.html</ref> In fact, Wright's case was actually stronger under California's Elections Code Section 349, which specifies a "residence" for voting purposes as their domicile or "...that place in which his or her habitation is fixed, wherein the person has the intention of remaining, and to which, whenever he or she is absent, the person has the intention of returning."<ref>http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=elec&group=00001-01000&file=300-362</ref> Since Pan's wife and children never moved from his Assembly District 7 home, he was constantly there while supposedly living in AD 9 and he returned to that home as his legal residence in just one year; it seemed obvious that AD 7 was Pan's domicile and he was committing perjury and voter fraud by declaring otherwise on his voter registration form.<ref>http://www.elections.saccounty.net/VotingInformation/Documents/sac_021145.pdf</ref>
After Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully, a Pan supporter, punted the case to the Secretary of State's Office arguing that her office lacked the resources to pursue the issue; Secretary of State Spokeswoman Shannan Velayas Martinez - now Pan's press secretary and the wife of CMA lobbyist (Pan's staunchest supporters) Eduardo Martinez - announced that they too were dropping their investigation.<ref>http://www.sacbee.com/2014/10/02/6753103/endorsement-assemblyman-roger.html</ref><ref>http://www.linkedin.com/pub/shannan-velayas-martinez/62/b43/a82</ref><ref>http://assembly.ca.gov/sites/assembly.ca.gov/files/Salaries/Assembly%20Staff%20Salaries%20-%2008-31-14.pdf</ref>


==Questionable Ties to Lobbyists==
In May 2014, Pan was criticized in the media for having the daughter of a lobbyist and political consultant star in his television advertisements and political mailers.<ref>http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/05/24/3662528_big-money-backs-richard-pan-in.html?rh=1</ref> This was not the first time Pan's cozy relationships with moneyed special interest lobbyists was called into question.
Months earlier, in February 2014, Pan was sent a warning letter from the California Fair Political Practices Commission for holding a campaign fundraiser at the home of disgraced Sacramento lobbyist Kevin Sloat.<ref>http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/02/sacramento-lobbyist-kevin-sloat-faces-133500-fppc-fine.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co</ref>
Similarly, in their December 2013 report "Gifts, Influence & Power," the good government watchdog group Common Cause singled out Richard Pan as one of the top recipients of gifts from special interests. <ref>http://www.commoncause.org/research-reports/CA_122013_Report_Gifts_Given_to_California-s_Elected_Officials_1.pdf</ref>
Finally, Pan is identified in the Sacramento Bee investigative report "The Public Eye: Big business channels money to California's moderate Democrats" as one of a handful of Democrats doing corporate America's bidding while taking advantage of a loophole that allows outside interests to take an influential path around California's traditional legislative system"<ref>http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/27/6356478/big-business-channels-money-to.html#</ref>
On the campaign trail, Pan is a favorite beneficiary of corporate contributions from oil, agribusiness, rdrug companies, developer and insurance interests that are so popular among the California Corporate Democrats.<ref>http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1353471&session=2013&view=received&page=*</ref><ref>http://capitalandmain.com/in-plain-sight-the-rise-of-corporate-democrats-in-california/</ref>
==References==
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Revision as of 17:12, 21 October 2014

Richard Pan
M.D., M.P.H., FAAP
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 9th district
Assumed office
December 3, 2012
Preceded byRoger Dickinson
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 5th district
In office
December 6, 2010 – November 30, 2012
Preceded byRoger Niello
Succeeded byFrank Bigelow
Personal details
Born (1965-10-28) October 28, 1965 (age 58)
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseWen-Li Wang
Residence(s)Sacramento, California
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
University of Pittsburgh
Harvard University
ProfessionPediatrician/Assemblymember

Richard Pan (born October 28, 1965[1]) is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat representing the 9th district, encompassing parts of Sacramento and San Joaquin counties. Pan is Chair of the California Assembly Committee on Health, and is a member on the Committee on Agriculture, Committee on Appropriations, and Committee on Revenue and Taxation.[2] Previously, Pan was Vice-Chair of the California Assembly Veteran's Affairs Committee and served on the committees on Aging and Long-Term Care, and Accountability and Administrative Review. He was also the Chair of the Select Committee on Healthcare Workforce and Access to Care.[3] He continues to practice at Wellspace Health's Oak Park Community Clinic,[4] where he established the pediatric clinic while at UC Davis Children's Hospital.[5]

Prior to being elected to the state assembly, he was a pediatrician and professor at the UC Davis Children's Hospital,[6] where he led the pediatric residency program. Pan founded Communities and Health Professionals Together (formerly Communities and Physicians Together), a nationally recognized program that partners resident physicians with community associations to improve community health.[7] In 2005, CPT received the Community Campus Partnerships for Health Award[8] and in 2008, Pan received the Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning[9] for his work on CHPT. Pan also taught community development at UC Davis.[10]

Expanding beyond his work to put doctors in touch with communities, Pan dedicated his private time to a number of local boards, organizations, and causes aimed at strengthening the community. He is a board member of the United Way California Capitol Region,[11] a past board member of BloodSource,[12] a regional blood bank, and served for six years as a Commissioner on the Sacramento First 5 Commission,[13] which supports programs for children 0–5 years. He was a founding board member and chair of Healthy Kids Healthy Future,[14] a regional administrative agency that obtained health care coverage for over 65,000 children in Colusa, El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yuba counties. He also was a founding member of the Sacramento Health Improvement Project,[15] a coalition of physicians, hospitals, clinics, and community activists working to strengthen the health care safety-net in Sacramento County.

Pan is a nationally recognized university educator. In addition to teaching as a faculty member at UC Davis, he has published numerous papers on medical education and physician workforce. He served on the American Medical Association Council on Medical Education[16] and on the board of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education,[17] which oversees physician residency education in the United States. He also was an Ambulatory Pediatric Association National Pediatric Faculty Development Scholar.

Pan has received many awards for his community and professional leadership including the UC Davis Chancellor’s Award for Diversity and Community,[18] the Medical Board of California Physician Humanitarian Award,[19] the American Academy of Pediatrics Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in pediatrics, the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society Medical Honor Award,[20] the California School Nurses Organization Lydia Smiley Award,[21][22] the United Way California Capitol Region Clarence La Rue Outstanding Volunteer Award, and the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento Hearts and Hands Award.

Pan received a B.A. in Biophysics at The Johns Hopkins University, a M.D. at the University of Pittsburgh entering into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and a M.P.H. at Harvard University. He completed his pediatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital also serving as Chief Resident in Pediatrics and was a Primary Care Research Fellow and Anne Dyson Pediatric Advocacy Fellow at Children's Hospital Boston. He also was a California HealthCare Foundation Health Care Leadership Fellow.[23]

Pan lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children. Pan's parents were immigrants to the United States from Taiwan.

Carpet Bagging, Per Diem and Representation Controversies

After redistricting placed him in the same district as Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, Richard Pan decided to move to another Assembly District to run for the vacant 9th District. [24] Although most understood that this was a fairly common byproduct of the redistricting process, Pan angered many by opening a committee to run for the State Senate the very next day after he was elected to represent AD7. [25] The controversy grew when it was discovered that Pan, himself a doctor and his wife a dentist, had requested that he be paid a $142 living expense meant to assist out of town lawmakers with food and housing costs while in Sacramento, in order to help pay for his second home just a few miles from the Capitol [26] Most Sacramento Area legislators (including Beth Gaines, Mariko Yamada, Roger Dickinson, Ken Cooley, Darrell Steinberg, Beth Gaines and Lois Wolk) decline the perk.[27]

On March 13, 2013, the Sacramento Bee reported that Pan did not actually live in the new home he was charging to the taxpayers of California but continued to live in the Assembly District 7 home from where he had supposedly moved <refhttp://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/13/5257969/sacramento-lawmaker-mostly-absent.html</ref> and was having his mail forwarded from his legal address to his former home.[28] Parts of his new Assembly Pan's new district also complained that he was refusing to represent them because they were outside of the Senate District for which he was now running.[29]

Finally, only a year after having one a seat in the Assembly representing District 9, Pan legally moved back to the District 9 home where he had lived the entire time.[30]

Perjury and Voter Fraud

Many thought Pan's carpet bagging was a clear violation of state law and should be prosecuted. [31] After all, Senator Rod Wright had been convicted and sentenced to jail for the exact same thing [32] In fact, Wright's case was actually stronger under California's Elections Code Section 349, which specifies a "residence" for voting purposes as their domicile or "...that place in which his or her habitation is fixed, wherein the person has the intention of remaining, and to which, whenever he or she is absent, the person has the intention of returning."[33] Since Pan's wife and children never moved from his Assembly District 7 home, he was constantly there while supposedly living in AD 9 and he returned to that home as his legal residence in just one year; it seemed obvious that AD 7 was Pan's domicile and he was committing perjury and voter fraud by declaring otherwise on his voter registration form.[34]

After Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully, a Pan supporter, punted the case to the Secretary of State's Office arguing that her office lacked the resources to pursue the issue; Secretary of State Spokeswoman Shannan Velayas Martinez - now Pan's press secretary and the wife of CMA lobbyist (Pan's staunchest supporters) Eduardo Martinez - announced that they too were dropping their investigation.[35][36][37]


Questionable Ties to Lobbyists

In May 2014, Pan was criticized in the media for having the daughter of a lobbyist and political consultant star in his television advertisements and political mailers.[38] This was not the first time Pan's cozy relationships with moneyed special interest lobbyists was called into question.

Months earlier, in February 2014, Pan was sent a warning letter from the California Fair Political Practices Commission for holding a campaign fundraiser at the home of disgraced Sacramento lobbyist Kevin Sloat.[39]

Similarly, in their December 2013 report "Gifts, Influence & Power," the good government watchdog group Common Cause singled out Richard Pan as one of the top recipients of gifts from special interests. [40]

Finally, Pan is identified in the Sacramento Bee investigative report "The Public Eye: Big business channels money to California's moderate Democrats" as one of a handful of Democrats doing corporate America's bidding while taking advantage of a loophole that allows outside interests to take an influential path around California's traditional legislative system"[41]

On the campaign trail, Pan is a favorite beneficiary of corporate contributions from oil, agribusiness, rdrug companies, developer and insurance interests that are so popular among the California Corporate Democrats.[42][43]

References

  1. ^ Assembly Member Richard Pan of California
  2. ^ http://www.asmdc.org/members/a09/committees/committees
  3. ^ http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset8text.asp
  4. ^ http://www.wellspacehealth.org/loc_oak_park.htm
  5. ^ http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/children/partnerships_affiliations/TheEffort/index.html
  6. ^ http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/children/
  7. ^ http://cpt-online.weebly.com/index.html
  8. ^ http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/awardsrecipients.html
  9. ^ http://www.compact.org/news/press-releases/campus-compact-honors-uc-davis-physician-for-innovative-partnerships-to-promote-community-health/201/
  10. ^ http://communitydevelopment.ucdavis.edu/index.php
  11. ^ http://www.yourlocalunitedway.org/home
  12. ^ http://www.bloodsource.org/
  13. ^ http://www.sackids.saccounty.net/default.htm
  14. ^ http://www.hkhf.org/
  15. ^ http://www.capitolhealthnetwork.org/CCHNNewsletterSpring2009.pdf
  16. ^ http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/ama-councils/council-medical-education.page?
  17. ^ http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/annRep/an_2008-09AnnRep.pdf
  18. ^ http://dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=7370
  19. ^ http://www.medbd.ca.gov/licensee/physician_humanitarian_recipients.html
  20. ^ http://www.ssvms.org/ssv_medicine/archives/2008/01/articles/0801-meet.pdf
  21. ^ http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/features/20090415_Pan_award/index.html
  22. ^ http://www.csno.org/docs/2009%20Conference%20Bulletin.pdf
  23. ^ http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/Public/Leadership-Programs/Home.aspx?pid=145
  24. ^ http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/10/richard-pan-to-seek-south-sacramento-county-assembly-seat.html
  25. ^ http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/11/richard-pan-opens-senate-committee----one-day-after-assembly-win.html
  26. ^ http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/06/assemblyman-richard-pan-takes-per-diem-after-move-across-sacramento.html
  27. ^ http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/12/ken-cooley-joins-six-other-capital-legislators-in-nixing-per-diem.html
  28. ^ http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130413/A_NEWS/304130319/-1/A_NEWS14
  29. ^ http://www.recmicordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130926/A_NEWS/309260318/-1/A_NEWS13
  30. ^ http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/29/6109672/editorial-sen-wright-should-quit.html
  31. ^ http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitol-alert-insider-edition/2013/03/editorial-da-should-get-to-bottom-of-pans-residency-is-assemblyman-flouting-the-law.html
  32. ^ http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-rod-wright-20140913-story.html
  33. ^ http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=elec&group=00001-01000&file=300-362
  34. ^ http://www.elections.saccounty.net/VotingInformation/Documents/sac_021145.pdf
  35. ^ http://www.sacbee.com/2014/10/02/6753103/endorsement-assemblyman-roger.html
  36. ^ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/shannan-velayas-martinez/62/b43/a82
  37. ^ http://assembly.ca.gov/sites/assembly.ca.gov/files/Salaries/Assembly%20Staff%20Salaries%20-%2008-31-14.pdf
  38. ^ http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/05/24/3662528_big-money-backs-richard-pan-in.html?rh=1
  39. ^ http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/02/sacramento-lobbyist-kevin-sloat-faces-133500-fppc-fine.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co
  40. ^ http://www.commoncause.org/research-reports/CA_122013_Report_Gifts_Given_to_California-s_Elected_Officials_1.pdf
  41. ^ http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/27/6356478/big-business-channels-money-to.html#
  42. ^ http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1353471&session=2013&view=received&page=*
  43. ^ http://capitalandmain.com/in-plain-sight-the-rise-of-corporate-democrats-in-california/

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