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Governor — State of California
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Gavin Newsom
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- Affordability/Cost of Living
- Safe Communities
- Homelessness
Michael Shellenberger
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- Reducing the cost of living by providing tax relief,...
- Protecting our greatest natural resource, our children
- Ending the state of emergency and lifting all mandates
- Lower the cost of living by suspending the gas tax...
- Ensure safe cities by enforcing laws and investing...
- Address homelessness by treating mental health and...
- Public Safety-Career politicians have failed to protect...
- Education-California needs an innovative education...
- Homelessness-Solving the homeless crisis will require...
- End poverty, end homelessness
- Clean air, water, soil for all Californians
- End mass incarceration and deadly police practices
- Drought
- Homelessness
- Corruption
Major Williams
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- Return citizens rights, outlined in the U.S. Constitution,...
- Do away with the duplicate government agencies and...
- Reduce regulations
- Enact free, universal, high-quality healthcare, education...
- Raise minimum wage to $18.50-an-hour with no exceptions...
- End homelessness, poverty, gender-based violence,...
- Solving homelessness for all 160,000 of California's...
- Stopping California's crime wave and senseless shootings...
- Building affordable housing for lower and middleclass...
- I have spoken to several homeless people, I have spent...
- Water issues, will be fixed, and we will stop the...
- Taxes: Cutting back on taxes and lowering cost means...
- homelessness and crime
- cost of living
- natural resources
Armando "Mando" Perez-Serrato
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- Restore order and revoke unconstitutional executive...
- Ensure safety in our streets & businesses
- Recreate a positive business environment to strengthen...
Daniel R. Mercuri
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- Homeless Crisis
- Crime
- Water Shortages
Anthony "Tony" Fanara
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- Companies relocating out of state - California is...
- Housing costs - 2nd least affordable housing in the...
- Immigration - Northern Triangle and Mexico having...
- Restore personal freedom and liberty to the people...
- Restore Law and Order by repealing Prop 47 and supporting...
- Solving the Homeless crisis that is destroying our...
- Pardon the millions of CA slaves convicted of unconstitutional...
- Sue in Supreme Court to make CA (+USA!) a democracy...
- Fight f/wealth tax, as I did in my prez campaign f/20+yrs,...
Woodrow "Woody" Sanders, III
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- Foster policies that promote a consistent respect...
- Foster policies that promote a fair distribution of...
- Foster policies that help safeguard California against...
- I want to change the status quo and address the real...
- Address the Cost of Living
- Address the Homelessness
- Solve the homelessness problem in California
- Develop the 200 miles of unused land from San Diego...
- Develop revenue-generating programs for public schools...
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Affordability/Cost of Living
- Safe Communities
- Homelessness
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Brian Dahle has served in the California Legislature since 2012, when he was elected to represent California's 1st Assembly District. He won a special election to the California Senate in 2019.
In the Legislature, he has worked on a bipartisan basis to promote wildfire safety and forest health, protect rural healthcare, and expand broadband availability for unserved communities, and build new water storage. He supports lower taxes and reducing the countless regulations that make living and doing business in California so expensive.
Before winning election to the Legislature, Brian served four terms on the Lassen County Board of Supervisors, was a member of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy's board. He also served as the chair of the National Association of Counties' Western Interstate Region and of the Regional Council of Rural Counties.
He still runs his family farm and a seed and trucking business in Lassen County.
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California has by every measure a severe housing shortage, and state regulations make it far too difficult and expensive to add to our housing stock. We must streamline development to allow new housing -- both market-rate and affordable.
We need to consolidate and streamline the funding that subsidizes housing for needy Californians.
Many of the chronically homeless suffer from addiction, but the state has stopped funding transitional housing that requires sobriety. We must create environments that help people overcome their addictions if we want them to live healthy and productive lives.
I have long been a champion of using biomass power plants throughout California to reduce the excess forest fuels that feed catastrophic wildfires while generating renewable electricity.
California has the nation's highest fuel prices, out-of-control housing costs, and utility rates near double any neighboring state's --- in large part thanks to state policies. And the cost of living squeezes poorer Californians the most, often simply sending them out of state.
The best way to help low-income Califrornians is to focus policies on reducing the cost of living, and that will be a top priority for my administration.
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The basic functions of government --- public safety, education, roads --- are vital to society and must be done well. But our state government has taken on far more than it can effectively manage and we're all suffering under the bureaucracy that has created.
Decisions should be made as close as possible to the people affected. I believe in local control and the importance of our local govenments, including counties and school districts whose leaders are elected by their communities.
Taxes should be lower. It is the people's money, and when the state government is running an enormous supplus as it is now, we should be cutting taxes and letting Californians keep their money for their own families.
I believe in accountability for crime. For the past decade, California has been telling more and more criminals that their actions have no consequences. This has having terrible effects on families, neighborhoods and businesses.
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Reducing the cost of living by providing tax relief, making our streets a safer place while addressing the homelessness crisis
- Protecting our greatest natural resource, our children
- Ending the state of emergency and lifting all mandates
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As CEO and founder of one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America and contributing member of the Forbes Agency Council, Anthony has a unique approach to bringing a diverse group of people, ideas and perspectives together to build solutions that address and overcome complex challenges facing California like the cost of living, modernization of the education system, post statewide shutdown recovery of businesses, homelessness crisis, healthcare, water, fire resources in our local communities.
While this may be his first political campaign, his family has a rich history of looking ahead to build a better future—without the overreaching involvement of government.
Anthony’s grandparents fled Cuba during Castro’s revolution. They sought the promise of the American Dream right here in California—for their family and for their children. They rolled up their sleeves, started a small business that still exists in Los Angeles, CA today and built a life they could be proud of.
Like his parents and grandparents before him, Anthony was born with an entrepreneurial spirit and a deep desire to build something from the ground up. He saw that the system was setup to keep minorities dependent on government and didn’t promote independence or self-reliance. Wanting to blaze a trail for those who would have the courage to follow, he started his first business in Los Angeles.
“Our first meal as a family in our new apartment was Hamburger Helper—without the hamburger. We just didn’t have any more than that, but we had each other and our faith. That was enough.” Despite adversity, he thrived.
“I know first-hand what it’s like to have sleepless nights worrying about providing for your family. But Ialso know the potential that California offers. Through tenacity, hard work, faith and the entrepreneurial spirit instilled in me by my parents and their parents, I created something better in California for my family and for others.”
Today, the business he started over 20 years ago is flourishing. Over the past year, while politicians were busy closing business and choking our economy, Anthony was busy creating jobs and providing opportunities. Traffik was named the fastest growing privately held company by Inc 5000.
“Through my agency, I get to work with global brands, innovative startups and Fortune 500 companies to create solutions that drive demand and establish deeply meaningful connections between brands and their audiences. We constantly push ourselves to apply data in more effective ways, engage audiences across every touchpoint, develop innovative solutions and reimagine traditional models to improve the lives of our clients’ audiences by empowering highly informed decisions through authentic, deeply meaningful engagement.”
But some of the most meaningful work Anthony has done is with local organizations that are on the front lines battling homelessness, providing support and relief for families dealing with childhood illness and advocating for youth trapped in the foster care system. In 2021 Anthony was named “Miracle Maker of the Year”, for his 12-year work with ‘Miracles for Kids’ a charity organization that helps families with critically-ill children fight bankruptcy, homelessness, hunger and depression—so they can fight for their kids’ lives.
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Lower the cost of living by suspending the gas tax and increasing housing supply
- Ensure safe cities by enforcing laws and investing in criminal rehabilitation
- Address homelessness by treating mental health and addiction issues
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Jenny Rae is an accomplished business owner, author, and strategic advisor with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Jenny Rae’s no stranger to hard work. She’s no stranger to big tasks and long odds. Her entire life has been staring down the impossible.Jenny Rae co-built tech companies in the energy and financial services industries before purchasing Management Consulted, a private tech-enabled services company. She knows the limitations our state has placed on the American Dream – and she’s ready for us to do better.
Jenny Rae is a frequent presenter at Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of Business, and over 60 other top institutions, and has been quoted in Forbes, Business Insider, and other business publications.
She still believes that hard work can pay off, that opportunity belongs to all of us, and that everyone can prosper.One year ago, in the midst of the many crises gripping California, Jenny Rae said, “Someone should do something.” She modeled her own COVID plan using publicly available data and hosted conversations about the future of public policy.
After meeting with groups around California, she recognized major gaps in both policy and process, leading her to announce her candidacy for Governor of California.
A pro-business fiscal conservative, Jenny Rae is ready to inspire California to dream again.Who supports this candidate?
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51% of America’s unsheltered homeless live in California. California spent $4B on homelessness last year, yet the problem is getting worse - homelessness increased 17% in 2019 first year and another 7% in 2020.
My plan will refocus problem solving at the root causes. We must reduce the homeless population and lower the price of housing.
First, I will audit existing services and shelters. We have nine state agencies overseeing 41 programs to address homelessness. After the audit, I will fill gaps and ensure the homeless are legally bound to use housing options provided to them rather than occupying public spaces.
Second, I will require every city to gather the names, ages, and veteran/non-veteran status of the homeless for accurate data measurements.
In addition, I will ensure funding is focused on coordinated care managed at the local level, with specific focus on sufficient substance abuse and mental health support.
Finally, I will accelerate building. Government-funded housing is not the answer. California has a shortage of over 1.4 million homes, and the average California home costs over $700,000. Yet just 102,800 residential building permits were issued in 2020, down almost 9% from 2019. I will streamline regulatory approvals and development impact fees, and will incentivize localities to stop new local growth ordinances which increase house prices by up to 5% per ordinance.
Abundant, stable, and clean electricity is necessary to build an innovation-driven economy.
The Problem
Californians pay the 7th highest electrical rates in the nation. Even at that premium, the state can’t keep the lights on.
The state's current policies have hurt our economy and left us with insufficient power. The current administration pledged “giant leaps forward” in our energy infrastructure but when it became clear that these policies couldn’t stop rolling brownouts, we were asked to just accept them as the “new normal.”
These brownouts have impacted millions of Californians. Elderly Californians had to go without cooling and sick Californians had to go without power for medical devices. There were 5 power availability alerts about power limitations issued in 2020 and 8 in 2021, according to CAISO records. The government is projecting an “unforeseen shortfall” of 5,000 megawatts through 2022, and our vulnerable populations are at risk.
In addition, we pay the highest gas taxes in the nation - $0.51 per gallon, with another planned increase this summer - all while we have a record surplus.
The Plentiful Power Solution
I will never accept electricity shortages as “normal.” I have a data-driven plan to build a power system for the future that uses all available power sources. We will ensure flexible, adequate supply and add new clean energy.
First, as long as we have a state surplus, I will suspend the gas tax - putting money back in the pockets of California’s middle class.
Second, I’ll continue the use of the Diablo Canyon power plant (slated to close in 2024). The plant is clean, safe, and carbon-free. At a time when California can’t meet the energy demands of its residents, we should not be shutting down any viable energy source. The plant, which provides nearly 10% of California’s power, has been rated safe by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and could run well beyond 2040.
In addition, I will reverse current policy that would ban hydraulic fracturing starting in 2024. The crisis in Ukraine has shown America that energy independence is a security imperative, and we can produce oil right here in California.
Furthermore, our problems of water and power are interrelated. If we don’t manage our water, the water levels in our reservoirs drop so low that hydroelectric power generation declines. Hydroelectric power is an important source of clean energy. I will work to retain this source of power.
Californians need a Governor who is determined to prevent disruptions in their lives. As Governor, I will never accept any problem as “unsolvable” - and will fight day and night to ensure every Californian can afford to keep their lights on.
I will continue to move California toward clean and renewable energy sources using incentives instead of mandates, but I will not disrupt current power supply in the process.
What policies or proposals would you support to help those who have lost homes and jobs to wildfire?
California has some of the richest people in the country and some of the poorest. What policies or programs do you support to help those in the lower income categories in California?
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Public Safety-Career politicians have failed to protect the people of California. As governor, I will fight to restore the California Dream, making our communities a safer and more prosperous place to live.
- Education-California needs an innovative education model that prepares our kids for a creative and dynamic future. It’s time to put our kids first and fund students, not systems and brick buildings
- Homelessness-Solving the homeless crisis will require rethinking the nature and meaning of compassion for the homeless, a reassessment of the policies of recent years, and a recalibration of where tolerance ends and law enforcement begins.
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My Top 3 Priorities
- End poverty, end homelessness
- Clean air, water, soil for all Californians
- End mass incarceration and deadly police practices
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Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with sixteen nationally published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children's literature, and poetry. Luis' poetry has won a California Arts Council Legacy Fellowship, a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a Patterson Poetry Life Achievement Award, among others. From 2014-2016, Luis served as Los Angeles’s official Poet Laureate. His two illustrated and bilingual children's books, America is Her Name and It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: A Barrio Story, have won a Patterson Young Adult Book Award, two Skipping Stones Honor Award, and a Parent's Choice Book Award.
Luis is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. A best seller, the memoir also garnered a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award, and was designated a New York Times Notable Book. The memoir is popular among teachers and young people. It’s known as one of the most checked out books in libraries—and one of the most stolen! Despite this, the American Library Association has called Always Running one of the 100 most censored books in the United States.
In addition to the above honors, Luis has received a Los Angeles Times’ Robert Kirsch Life Achievement Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, a Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, a National Association for Poetry Therapy Public Service Award, an Illinois Author of the Year Award, and several fellowships from Illinois, Chicago, North Carolina, California, and Los Angeles, among others.
Luis’s publishers are Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Seven Stories Press, Lee & Low Books, Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, Tia Chucha Press, and C&C Books. His poetry collections include Poems Across the Pavement, The Concrete River, Trochemoche, My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems, and Borrowed Bones.He also has another memoir, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions & Healing. And he has a non-fiction on work with troubled communities through arts and healing, Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times. His most recent book was released in 2020, From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys & Imaginings of a Native Xicanx Writer. His fiction books include The Republic of East LA: Stories and Music of the Mill: A Novel.
Luis has been praised for helping start several prominent organizations, such as Chicago's Guild Complex, one of the largest literary arts organizations in Chicago, and its publishing wing, Tia Chucha Press. Luis and his wife Trini twenty years ago also co-founded Tia Chucha' Centro Cultural & Bookstore—a bookstore, workshop center, performance space, art gallery, and media center—in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles.
Luis has spent over 40 years doing writing workshops, readings, and talks in prisons, juvenile lockups, homeless shelters, migrant camps, universities, public and private schools, conferences, libraries, bookstores, Native American reservations, and men's retreats throughout the United States. He has also traveled to Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Japan doing similar work.
Luis has been part of the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation's Men's Conferences since 1994 with Mosaic founder Michael Meade and other teachers such as West African teacher elder Malidoma Some and American Buddhist Jack Kornfield. At these conferences involving men of all walks of life, the complex but vital issues of race, class, gender, and personal rage are addressed with dialogue, ritual, story, poetry, and art.
In 2001, Luis Rodriguez became one of fifty individuals from around the world to be recognized as an Unsung Hero of Compassion; an honor bestowed on him by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Luis' work has also been widely anthologized, including in Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters and the Outlaw Bible of American Literature. His poems and articles have appeared in college and high school textbooks throughout the United States and Europe. He has done radio productions and writing for L.A.'s KPFK-FM, California Public Radio as well as Chicago's WMAQ-AM's All-News radio and WBEZ-FM. His writings have also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, U.S. News & World Report, L.A. Weekly, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, San Jose Mercury, Grand Street, American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Yes! Magazine, and Huntington Post, among others.
For over 30 years. Luis has been active in Indigenous people’s movements and spiritual practices, drawing from his own Mexica (Aztec) and Raramuri (Tarahumara) roots. His teachers also come from the Dine (Navajo), Lakota, and Akimel O’odham in the United States as well as Maya (Mexico and Guatemala) and Quechua (Peru).
Luis has run for public office several times, including as Vice-Presidential candidate with Rocky Anderson for President with the Justice Party in 2012. He’s run for California governor in 2014 and in 2022, both times endorsed by the California Green Party and others, including most recently the Peace & Freedom Party and the Justice Party.
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It doesn’t have to be this way. I’m running for Governor to give a voice to those who agree. I have one main goal: The shared well-being of everyone. I call this campaign, “Let’s Imagine a New California for shared well-being. Then Let’s Build It Together.” No more poverty. No more homelessness. No more poisoned air, water, soil. No more mass incarceration. No more sanctioned deadly force and militarized policing. It’s time for fully funded arts & literacy in every neighborhood, for decent housing, free quality education, dignity and rights for immigrants, universal healthcare, and for public safety based on meeting needs, rather than adding trauma to misfortune. How can we get there? It will require a major change in thinking and in representation. The economic, environmental, and social ills of our state are mostly human made, the result of capitalist-driven thinking, where the aim of maximum profits rules. It’s time for a new paradigm to guide our politics. Mine is a campaign for social, economic, health, and environmental justice. For a society that puts people and the environment first, with justice and sustainability as guiding principles. That kind of change comes from giving the dispossessed a voice in our politics. The most impacted should help lead. That’s what this campaign is all about. It's about a politics of soul, a politics of depth. Not just manageing crisis, but getting to the root of the problems. I'm about the big dream and the big delivery.
My Top 3 Priorities
- Drought
- Homelessness
- Corruption
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Leo Zacky is a 4th Generation Californian and member of the Zacky Farms Poultry Family. He worked his way up from the bottom after attending The University of Arizona, eventually becoming Vice President of Zacky Farms having gone through a thorough and hands on learning experience working every job in the business. Upon joining the company, he became a Board Member of the California Poultry Federation where he would travel to Washington D.C. and Sacramento to meet with Senators, Congressmen, State Reps, the FDA and the USDA. Hard work and long hours do not phase Leo, especially when he is passionate about what he is doing. After California forced Leo and his family out of business after 90 years and having been at one point the largest privately owned employer in the state as well as arguably the largest poultry producer on the west coast, Leo took to aiding his grandmother through the gut-wrenching processes of closing a life-long family-owned business in January of 2019.
Leo has always been a Patriot and proud of his country. These were instilled in him by his grandfathers who had fought in The Second World War and in Korea. Leo has a deep understanding of history because he knows, “those who do not learn history, are doomed to repeat it.” Leo is also an active supporter of The Halo For Freedom Warrior Foundation. Leo’s love of country goes beyond just honoring and respecting those who have fought and died for our great nation, he stands for freedom in all its forms and against tyranny. Leo was attacked by ANTIFA while putting out a fire in Washington D.C. after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and was proudly in attendance at the rallies at Freedom Plaza and on the Capitol Grounds on January 6th. “Freedom for the whole world is what is at stake here. I have nothing to lose but my life and my freedom, and I’m not about to lose my freedom.”
Leo has many friends from around the world and all walks of life, and is an avid hockey player. Everyone who comes to know Leo falls in love with him as his honest, sincere, and outgoing spirit gravitates people towards him. Generosity, loyalty, funny, and brilliant are words often associated with Leo. Leo is never someone who plays the victim and encourages others to take life into their own hands. Leo loves California and is tired of the decay and destruction of his home state. He has crafted well-thought-out, common-sense approaches in detail to many of California’s foundational issues, including: The Homeless Crisis, Drought, Crime, Wildfires, Education, and Corruption to name a few. Leo knows that the only way to fix these issues is by working together to achieve our goals and by putting petty issues aside. Leo is someone who is known for bringing folks together with his ability to compromise without surrendering his morals, values, and principles.
Many people assume Leo was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, however that couldn’t be further from the truth. Leo was born to parents who should never have had children to put it lightly, but he doesn’t dwell on that, and rather looks at it as a positive because he “…learned firsthand exactly what not to be.”
Leo is well respected in the poultry industry and is known for being a leader, problem solver, and not afraid of getting his hands dirty. His direct hands-on approach was huge boon to his business. Sadly, those efforts could not outpace California’s ever increasing minimum wage, business taxes, water costs, regulations, and environmental restrictions.
Leo has a vast knowledge and understanding of the Deep State Globalist Banking Cartel who are behind the Coivid-19 Scam-demic and many other nefarious dealings like child sex trafficking, market manipulation, and false flag attacks, and is not one to shy away from exposing them.
Leo Zacky is exactly what Californian’s need. He is the man who will unite everyone with his plans for California. He has state wide positive name recognition, actual solutions, common sense, and no second agenda.
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Lower taxes, less regulation and red tape. I want to make things eaiser for people to start a business in California by giving new businesses a business tax grace period for the first 5 years or $1,000,000 NET.
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America First and a Constituionalist. I am running for all Californians to fix California's key foundational issues and bring progress and prosperity to everyone.
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Leo Zacky tells us his ground breaking solutions to ending drought in California and his grand vision for the future!
Leo Zacky brings his solutions to California's failing education system to give our children the best chance at success.
Leo Zacky is here to support our law enforcement officers and root out corruption plaguing our government.
Here is a quick take about Leo Zacky. Your 2022 California Gubernatorial Candidate.
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Return citizens rights, outlined in the U.S. Constitution, to American citizens.
- Do away with the duplicate government agencies and practices that waste the taxpayers money.
- Reduce regulations
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Robert Newman was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, but his family soon moved to California where his parents lived on a small farm, and his dad worked as a commercial fisherman. They may not have been dirt poor, but they were pretty dusty.
Robert experienced all the joys of a farm boy, even after polio struck at the age of four. The disease was devastating, but it could not keep the irrepressible youngster down. He fought back. He continually pulled his weight on the farm and even participated in sports at school. He had, and still has a natural love of learning — about almost everything. He could say, along with Thomas Jefferson, “There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
Robert has been married to the love of his life, Mary, for 57 years. Their first home was a small trailer in a mobile home park; what they called a “trailer park” at that time. Robert worked his way through college despite being at poverty level. He continued his studies, earning a Ph.D. in research clinical psychology, and ran a very successful practice in Southern California for two decades, before returning to a small farm where he and Mary intended to spend the rest of their days. God, however, had other plans.
Robert appreciates the wisdom of those who founded the United States and despairs at the foolishness of modern politicians who often disregard that wisdom for personal gain. He has watched as the dream of 1776 turned into the nightmare of today. He has experienced first hand the oppressive and unjust power of the state. As much as he would have preferred to simply stay on his farm, he felt a powerful call to confront the many and varied abuses of government. He knew that he could not stand idly by. Our nation and its people deserve better, so Robert turned from the farm and the life that he loves so much to fight a fight that simply must be fought. He got involved in local school boards, water agencies, community college districts, environmental agencies, and state government.
As a candidate for governor, Robert had to withdraw from some commitments. He served on the Advisory Board of the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe. He was a frequently invited quest on Radio Nueva Vida (KEZY AM1240 in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles) and was heard on Revolution Radio. He has also appeared on the Wiley Drake Show on Live TV.
Robert and Mary have two adult children and two adult grand children who all reside in California hence he has grave concerns about their future here in this state. Therefore he challenges you to get involved, learn in detail about the U.S. Constitution (the supreme law of the land), and join the “California Revolution,” the campaign to save California and make it the great state it used to be.
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A vast majority of homeless people are mentally ill. Therefore, we must reopen the state mental hospitals that will house, feed, and create safe environments for those deemed by mental health professionals to be in need. The remainder of the homeless population should be taken care of by the local churches and religious organizations, as well as, the families of those that have either fallen on hard times or have chosen a life of poverty.
We need to construct more nuclear power plants to generate both the needed and exceeded amount of electricity use by the citizens.
Many wildfires are caused by the overcrowding of forests in California. We must work with Calfire, the California parks and recreation service, and logging companies to thin out our forests and allow greater airflow and water retention. Cleaning excess brush under powerlines and planting appropriate crops within the forests will help keep wildfires at bay. Those effected by wildfires have chosen where they want to live. Different areas have different dangers associated with them, however, it should not be the responsibility of a taxpayer that lives on the coast to pay for the rebuilding of the mountain dwelling individual.
It is not the taxpayers responsibility to take care of the low income families and individuals. Assistance needs to come from the private community and that includes churches and nonprofits. The opportunity is available to imporve ones lot in life. I do understand that there are those that are not capable of working, but it is still their responsibility to live within their means.
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It is exceedingly important that we know what we believe and why, in order to be grounded. This approach to life protects the individual from falling prey to every wind of doctrine. Adults are aware that something may be known but the knower may lack the ability to explain the position as to why it is known. We are told by wise individuals that one should be ready for an accounting both in season (when one anticipates the need to share) and out of season (when one is caught by surprise). The ability to put your philosophical position into words cannot be emphasized enough.
In addition to my position that my philosophy of life is dependent upon my mind, the thinking/rational part of my psyche, I also know I have an affective element which is the element of the mind as well as bodily feelings. These elements may be subdivided though that is not necessary for one's understanding. It is essential that one understands that the mind, emotions and body are inextricably one. They coexist; they interact continuously.
Where does the spiritual element enter into the picture? For me it is primarily a rational, cognitive matter. I know my God, Jehovah, and God's son Jesus from an intellectual premise. From that base I know that I am loved and have eternal security, an awareness of security that began a long time ago. I know that the certainty I have in God provides direction and guidance in life. I am comforted to know that my life has meaning and purpose. I know that I am created in God's image. I know that I am not an evolving being whose ancestors crawled out of the primordial ooze a long time ago.
God created all human beings. He loves, as we used to sing in Sunday School: “Red, [Brown] and yellow, black and white, They are precious in His sight; Jesus loves the little children of the world.” This awareness is extended to others whom I must respect and then assume my appropriate responsibilities and allow those with the capacity to do so to assume theirs. This includes the unborn, the infirm and limited as well as the elderly who have made their contributions in life. In many locations the Bible clearly states that we are to care for the widows and orphans. “To whom much is given, much is expected; to whom much more is given, much more is expected,” (Luke 12:48). And I have been given much more.
Because I have been given much more, much more is required of me. I have the responsibility to take care of myself, my family, and others, as needed from time to time. II Thessalonians 3.10 states, “…if any would not work, neither shall he eat.” I strongly believe in the work ethic. Work structures life and work well done gives satisfaction.
I believe that every citizen has civic responsibilities. In the United States of America we have a Constitution based upon The Holy Scriptures. Citizens have the right to vote for whom they believe will best represent them. I believe citizens have not only the right to vote and also a duty; that duty necessitates some knowledge of the issues and of the candidates. I believe that we are held accountable to God for our vote. (The citizen’s political party should be carefully chosen based upon the “Party Platform Statement.” Excerpts from the two main parties, Republican Platform and Democrat Platform, i.e., what they believe, are included here for the reader’s edification.) These excerpts are from the 2012 Republican and Democrat platforms because their statements were clear. Currently, the parties have bought into “word salads” which make the platform more palatable but much less clear and much more confusing. (Please note that the Democrat Party has somewhat morphed into the “Democratic Party.”) The platforms will only cover five issues: Life, Marriage, Second Amendment (Firearms), Conscience in Health Care, and The U.S. Constitution. These topics or issues are of great concern to Christians.
Republicans believe in the sanctity of human life and that the unborn is a human being with individual rights. And Republicans are opposed to using public monies to perform abortions or subsidize organizations or health care which covers abortions. Republicans believe in marriage as between one man and one woman. And Republicans believe in The U.S. Constitution, “The Supreme Law of the Land,” the foundation which holds our country firm. The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms which Republicans believe is tantamount to law-abiding citizen’s protection.
The Democrats believe that a woman has the right to make decisions about her pregnancy, including a legal abortion and that the father of he baby should have no voice in the matter.. Democrats support access to affordable family planning, i.e Planned Parenthood health centers. Democrats believe marriage should be available to same-sex couples. Democrats believe women should have health insurance which covers abortion. And Democrats view The Constitution as a “living document” which means it is changeable at any wind of doctrine. This is exemplified in the Democrat’s view of the desire to mutate the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment to keep and bear arms is seen by Democrats as subject to “reasonable regulation.” And they would like to ban assault weapons.
I believe that my philosophy of life can be seen throughout the writings in this book. It is my hope that readers will examine their position and stand on the many issues which confront us in life.
Galatians 6.10: “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” Let me conclude with a word of admonition from James 4.17: “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is a sin.”
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Sanctity of Life
Respect for human life is a moral issue. So those who desire the survival of our Republic, promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution must respect life.
Respect for human life is a moral issue. In George Washington’s (1790) address he states, “Religion and Morality are indispensable supports of our political prosperity.” So those who desire the survival of our Republic, promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution must respect life.
John Adams wrote: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other….”
Primitive societies through history sacrificed and still sacrifice infants to a make believe god. In America laws by ungodly lawmakers have legalized abortion. The unborn are being sacrificed to the god of mammon. 1Timothy 6.10, “For the love of money is the root of all evil….”
The life of the physically or/and mentally impaired must be respected. The life of the elderly must be respected. Care and respect for the less capable is not only valued by the needy but has a deeply human and deeply valued effect upon the caregiver. To love another is a healthy form of self love.
My desire is to move California back toward a healthy and peace loving direction by respecting human life.
Property Rights are Human Rights
Property rights are individual citizen's rights.
Property ownership is truly America. Since before the United States of America was established America was known to be the land of opportunity. This was understood because people could acquire ownership of more than the clothes on their backs. They could acquire a possession that had the potential to accrue capital beyond itself.
A pocket knife, could be used to whittle and object. The useful object could be peddled. The profit could be used to acquire another tool which could also lead to a more profitable widget.
Now the same principle could be applied to real estate. A structure known as a house could be constructed, thus reinvesting in one’s own property so one no longer gives rent money to a landlord. The owner is himself his landlord. The owner of the property is therefore responsible for the care and use of the property.
Property in the form of real estate is one of the greatest benefits of living in America. That right must be safeguarded. Do not allow laws to be passed that erode your God given right to own your land. This truly American tradition is being encroached upon by government workers. Such workers are unaware of the Constitutional rights of property owners.
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids unlawful search and seizure. This is age old tradition that our home is our castle. Sometimes the government official is unaware that activities in the line of duty are a violation of owners’ rights. But ignorance of the law is no excuse. Sometimes the perpetrator has no concern about the individual’s rights. Each of us must be held accountable for our behavior. This is the essence of the Nuremberg Code which states each of us must be behaviorally responsible. Many government employees are, as public servants, who upon being hired swear to an oath of office. That oath states the employee will uphold the Constitution of the United States and to the Constitution of the State of California concerning both foreign and domestic enemies. The vast majority of them merely parroting the oath of office and have no understanding of their responsibility therein contained.
Know your rights!
Do not allow invasion of your privacy!
Hold others to their oath of office!
Law and Order
Law and Order must be maintained.
Law and Order must be maintained.
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Enact free, universal, high-quality healthcare, education prekindergarten-through-college, childcare & job training fully-funded by wealthy individuals & corporations, government revenues, and high-income workers.
- Raise minimum wage to $18.50-an-hour with no exceptions & annual upward cost-of-living adjustments. Everyone who works full-time 40-hours-a-week will make over $38,000-a-year.
- End homelessness, poverty, gender-based violence, mass incarceration, the death penalty, the war-on-drugs & institutional racism.
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New Transformational Leadership & Fundamental Change is Coming.
Since 1995 as a San Francisco peaceful warrior champion, I fearlessly battled the Most Corrupt Machine in America that amassed unprecedented power & wealth, rigged the economic & political system to make the superrich richer, and caused ever-expanding criminal prosecutions.
34 Years of Exceptional Award-winning Public Service: Administrator, Safety Security Risk Expert & Analyst building the industry-leading City and County of San Francisco International Airport into an economic powerhouse creating 300,000 jobs & $62.5 billion in business sales annually (1987-2018); Department Head Assistant & Aging Specialist reorganizing the City and County of San Francisco Aging Commission into a model city department (1981-1984).
Prior Impactful Leadership Positions: 2021 Most Qualified California Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate; 2019 Democratic Party Runner-up for San Francisco Mayor; City and County of San Francisco Environmental Commissioner; President, Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods; Executive Board Member, Service Employees International Union (790); Environmental Justice Pioneer; Nationally-known Successful Community Organizer.
50 Years of Activism & Accomplishments: Organized the winning coalition that passed the most restrictive commercial office highrise growth control law in the nation; Started term-limits for politicians on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Defeated corporate welfare sports facilities promoted by the superrich; Headed the public power movement in San Francisco; Testified before Congress against privatization of national parks; Led the effort to close the last two fossil-fueled burning power plants in San Francisco; Crafted open government law; Drafted detailed plan to cleanup radioactive-contaminated closed military bases; Adopted the first landmark City and County of San Francisco Sustainability Plan.
Media Characterizations: “hero”; “incorruptible”; “courageous”; “tough”; “principled”; “honest”; “liberal”; “left”; “empathetic”; “personable”; “knowledgeable”.
Family & Education: Son of extraordinary mother & Italian American science teacher; Married Asian American immigrant; Step-grandfather to African Americans, Cambodian Americans & Filipino Americans; Related to signers of the Declaration of Independence & Constitution; Jesuit-educated; Master in Public Administration, University of San Francisco.
As a prominent, popular, public-interest 99% game-changer Inclusive-Populist-Progressive-Democrat, who received over 297,000 votes in California elections, I will govern as America’s most effective progressive governor.
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As the Governor of California, with a New Groundbreaking Equal-Opportunity-for-All-to-Succeed Platform (www.joelventresca.com), I will:
End homelessness, poverty, and economic inequality.
Enact free, universal, high-quality healthcare, education prekindergarten-through-college, childcare & job training fully-funded by wealthy individuals & corporations, government revenues, and high-income workers.
Raise minimum wage to $18.50-an-hour with no exceptions & annual upward cost-of-living adjustments (everyone who works full-time 40-hours-a-week will make over $38,000-a-year).
Launch a government-funded and government-directed massive relief program to provide decent shelter, food, and clothing to all 160,000 homeless individuals in California while providing targeted healthcare, treatment, assistance & services.
Place, with due process, homeless individuals who are a danger to themselves or others into a humane setting with appropriate monitoring & treatment.
Change state law to allow counties and cities to pass tenant protections & rent control to freeze or bring down rents.
Provide emergency financial help to tenants and homeowners facing eviction and foreclosure for up to three years.
Build large-scale multi-unit permanent affordable housing.
Eliminate taxes & fees on small businesses for five years.
Grow the economy by creating new jobs and building new public infrastructure.
California, the most populous state in the nation with the 5th largest economy in the world, is not doing enough to slow down or stop global warming.
As a former City and County of San Francisco Environmental Commissioner and as governor of California, I will:
Reinvent California into the first zero-carbon-emissions state in the nation.
Restructure energy utilities into one full-service consumer-owned statewide public power system that operates efficiently, reliably, sustainably & safely with 15% lower rates.
Convert to non-nuclear 100% clean renewable energy.
Establish free public transit getting people out of cars and onto public transportation.
Complete the bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco getting people out of airplanes and onto trains.
Cease fracking & oil drilling.
Eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and gas-powered vehicles.
Promote the manufacturing of zero-emission electric vehicles in California to bring down costs.
Build large-scale solar & wind generation throughout the state.
Big Oil in California received 2,849 new fracking, oil & gas drilling permits between 2019 and 2021 while California is 60 years behind on its climate goals.
The California legislature has not passed a single significant climate change law in the last three years. The group California Environmental Voters assigned its first “D” grade to California for failure to address climate change in 2021.
Mismanaged California investor-owned utilities that cause wildfires must be held accountable and make their victims whole again economically.
For wildfire destruction not related to investor-owned utilities, California state government should financially assist those impacted by wildfires.
As governor, I will:
Restructure energy utilities into one full-service consumer-owned statewide public power system that operates efficiently, reliably, sustainably & safely with 15% lower rates.
Triple the wildfire workforce dedicated to fighting & containing wildfires.
Triple the resources dedicated to wildfire prevention.
The worst homelessness, poverty rate, and economic inequality in the nation is in California.
As governor, I will:
Launch a government-funded and government-directed massive relief program to provide decent shelter, food, and clothing to all 160,000 homeless individuals in California while providing targeted healthcare, treatment, assistance & services.
End poverty by changing law, regulation, and policy to move every household and family above the poverty level.
Disempower the top 1% economic elite.
Increase taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations.
Reduce the gap between the rich and the poor.
Enact free, universal, high-quality healthcare, education prekindergarten-through-college, childcare & job training fully-funded by wealthy individuals & corporations, government revenues, and high-income workers.
Raise minimum wage to $18.50-an-hour with no exceptions & annual upward cost-of-living adjustments.
Establish free public transit.
End gender-based violence, mass incarceration, the death penalty, the war-on-drugs & institutional racism.
Pass best tenant protection, civil rights, gun safety & police reform laws in the nation.
Build large-scale multi-unit permanent affordable housing.
Eliminate taxes & fees on small businesses for 5 years.
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Incorruptible*Independent*Berniecrat*Democrat.
The governor of California, the most populous state in the nation with the fifth largest economy of the world, has executive authority to lead state government while working with the state legislature and the electorate. The California Governor works to change legislation, regulation, and policy.
As the new Democratic Governor of California, I will restore, reinvent, and reimagine the Golden California Dream by implementing a new groundbreaking Equal-Opportunity-for-All-to-Succeed Platform.
As governor, I will:
Enact free, universal, high-quality healthcare, education prekindergarten-through-college, childcare & job training fully-funded by wealthy individuals & corporations, government revenues, and high-income workers.
Raise minimum wage to $18.50-an-hour with no exceptions & annual upward cost-of-living adjustments.
End homelessness, poverty, gender-based violence, mass incarceration, death penalty, war-on-drugs & institutional racism.
Pass best tenant protection, civil rights, gun safety & police reform laws in the nation.
Build large-scale multi-unit permanent affordable housing.
Eliminate taxes & fees on small businesses for 5 years.
Increase taxes on wealthy individuals & corporations.
Reverse economic inequality & expand economic democracy.
Disempower top 1% economic elite.
Empower nonviolent mass movements.
Reinvent California into the first zero-carbon-emissions state in the nation.
Restructure energy utilities into one full-service consumer-owned statewide public power system that operates efficiently, reliably, sustainably & safely with 15% lower rates.
Convert to non-nuclear 100% clean renewable energy.
Establish free public transit.
Cease fracking & oil drilling.
Reduce inequities, disparities & the gap between rich & poor.
Challenge corporate & tech agendas.
Rejuvenate inclusive & diverse participatory democracy.
Remove corrupt influence of private money from politics by mandating 100% publicly-funded candidate campaigns & elections.
Prohibit elected representatives from meeting with lobbyists.
Halt government waste, fraud, abuse, inefficiency, mismanagement & corruption.
Make safety, security, opportunity & well-being accessible to all.
Confront bias, discrimination & bigotry.
Reopen Robert Kennedy murder investigation.
Launch advertising-free, public interest-oriented, high-value alternative media (television, radio & print) completely-funded by taxing corporate media & big tech 2.5% of gross sales in California annually.
Create just, livable & flourishing California for all.
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Restoring, Reinventing & Reimagining the Golden California Dream
A New Groundbreaking Equal-Opportunity-for-All-to-Succeed Platform by Joel Ventresca, Candidate for California Governor 2022
As the new Democratic Governor of California, I will:
Create a just, livable & flourishing California for all.
Enact free, universal, high-quality healthcare, education prekindergarten-through-college, childcare & job training fully-funded by wealthy individuals & corporations, government revenues, and high-income workers.
Raise minimum wage to $18.50-an-hour with no exceptions & annual upward cost-of-living adjustments.
End homelessness, poverty, gender-based violence, mass incarceration, death penalty, war-on-drugs & institutional racism.
Pass best tenant protection, civil rights, gun safety & police reform laws in the nation.
Build large-scale multi-unit permanent affordable housing.
Eliminate taxes & fees on small businesses for 5 years.
Increase taxes on wealthy individuals & corporations.
Reverse economic inequality & expand economic democracy.
Disempower top 1% economic elite.
Empower nonviolent mass movements.
Reinvent California into the first zero-carbon-emissions state in the nation.
Restructure energy utilities into one full-service consumer-owned statewide public power system that operates efficiently, reliably, sustainably & safely with 15% lower rates.
Convert to non-nuclear 100% clean renewable energy.
Establish free public transit.
Cease fracking & oil drilling.
Reduce inequities, disparities & the gap between rich & poor.
Challenge corporate & tech agendas.
Rejuvenate inclusive & diverse participatory democracy.
Remove corrupt influence of private money from politics by mandating 100% publicly-funded candidate campaigns & elections.
Prohibit elected representatives from meeting with lobbyists.
Halt government waste, fraud, abuse, inefficiency, mismanagement & corruption.
Make safety, security, opportunity & well-being accessible to all.
Confront bias, discrimination & bigotry.
Reopen Robert Kennedy murder investigation.
Launch advertising-free, public interest-oriented, high-value alternative media (television, radio & print) completely-funded by taxing corporate media & big tech 2.5% of gross sales in California annually.
Restore democracy.
Reinvent government.
Reimagine capitalism.
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Solving homelessness for all 160,000 of California's homeless
- Stopping California's crime wave and senseless shootings and make California safe again for all citizens
- Building affordable housing for lower and middleclass families while reducing rent, solving our water crisis, our economy and lowering taxes
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What policies or proposals would you support to reduce the number of people who are homeless and to prevent people from becoming homeless in California?
What policies or proposals would you support to help those who have lost homes and jobs to wildfire?
California has some of the richest people in the country and some of the poorest. What policies or programs do you support to help those in the lower income categories in California?
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Response to August 23, 2021 Editorial.• On Homelessness, recall candidates offer hot air, not real solutions
A response letter by Gubernatorial Candidate David Lozano to the Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times regarding their August 23, 2021 Editorial column entitled On Homelessness, recall candidates offer hot air, not real solutions where the editorial board made a false claim that none of the Gubernatorial Candidates had offered a plan to solve homelessness - but just one week PRIOR to the article, David Lozano had made a public appearance and announcement regarding his "New Hope" plan to solve homelessness.
RE: Response to August 23, 2021 Editorial.• On Homelessness, recall candidates offer hot air, not real solutions
Dear Editorial Board, This is Gubernatorial Candidate David Lozano. I am writing to correct your statement made in your August 23, 2021 Editorial: On Homelessness where you claim that none of the Gubernatorial Candidates have anything to offer in regards to solutions to homelessness.
Well, you are wrong because I do have a plan. On August 17th, a week prior to the release of your article, I unveiled my step-by-step solution to homelessness called "A New Hope" in which I announced that I will be able to house and care for every homeless person that lies in the streets of California today within two years or less. This is based on my 28 years experience as a financial expert, as a Federal attorney and negotiator, my years as a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff in South Central Los Angeles, and my years working around the world.
And although I am quite familiar with the incredible success of the homeless project known as Housing First that originated in Finland under the direction of the great Housing Minister Jan Vapaavuori, the program was destined to fail or falter here in the United States when it was brought over by HUD and attempted to be used here because one cannot bring over a Socialist type program developed and designed for a European type mentality and expect it to work the same here in the U.S. We're simply different. We act differently, we think differently. This was supported by authors David M. Flanagan and Michele Steeb of the book Answers Behind the Red Door: Battling the Homeless Epidemic.
My project, "A New Hope" which took me over three years to develop, allowed me to take a few of the best elements of "Housing First" and adapt them to the American lifestyle, specifically, the Californian lifestyle, and then adding hundreds of my own ideas and shaping it to what is a revolutionary way of thinking about homelessness. Although it will take me approximately three to four hours to explain to you exactly how this entire plan will be implemented, let me give you this extremely short version.
The plan will build – from the ground up - not one – but three major metropolitan/residential cities – one in the Northern part of California; the second Northeast of the Antelope Valley outside of Los Angeles; and the third in the Southern tip of California with each having not just upper and middle class areas, where regular citizens will thrive and prosper with regular jobs and careers, (but whose focus remains the homeless) but also having a moderate class area with the capability of housing over 50,000 homeless each.
You make a comment in your article that by forcing people into any place they don't want to go, or any place without a certain amount of privacy and autonomy, is ineffective. I absolutely agree! My project - "A New Hope" accommodates for all that. A New Hope makes the desire of the individual homeless person to want to move into the housing of my project so appealing, so alluring, so enticing - that those that are drug addicted, mentally ill, or alcoholic, or those that simply do not wish to return to society WANT TO COME TO THIS COMMUNITY because we make it so beautiful, warm and inviting.
And the homeless who have pets, partners and their personal belongings? BRING THEM ALL!! THEY ARE ALL WELCOME!!
No curfews. No rules (of course regular citizen rules). These will be beautiful, divided, secure gated communities.
Please go to my website www.Lozanoforcalifornia.com for further details about "A New Hope" and all my Political Platforms as well as the opportunity to see the News Broadcast video that was shot last week from downtown L.A. Skid Row that formally announces the unveiling of the project "A New Hope".
And then, if you determine that what I am telling you is worthy of a rebuttal, I would appreciate a re-write of your article to say that there is ONE candidate with a Homeless Plan that is worthy of offering it as a real Solution to the people of California.
- David Lozano
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My name is David Lozano, and three years ago I discovered the solution to homelessness. The solution comes from Finland through a program they call Housing First. Finland has almost completely eliminated their entire homeless problem through this program. As I said, I brought the basis of this program over to the United States three years ago and began using it to develop my own project to use here in California. I have now completed that project and it is ready to be implemented. The name of my project is called “A New Hope” and it will house and care for every homeless person here in California within two years or less. What this means is that every homeless person that lies on our streets today, whether they are suffering from drug addiction, alcoholism, mental illness, financial instability or they simply do not wish to return to society, will be gently lifted off our streets and placed in a safe and secure environment, so that our sidewalks, parks, beaches, bridges, underpasses, freeways and roadways will be free, clear and clean for all citizens of California to use once again.
My Top 3 Priorities
- I have spoken to several homeless people, I have spent an hour at there school, and the direction that everyone is going will fail. I found a way that will work, and get these people off the streets real fast about a 4 step procedure
- Water issues, will be fixed, and we will stop the on going mistakes, Crime: catch and release just doesn’t work, intimidation, prejudice & hate crimes are on going more than ever before I will stop this.
- Taxes: Cutting back on taxes and lowering cost means more money in your pocket it’s a fact: Over Taxing large companies is a big mistake, they will move. This means your retirement and benefits is then gone.
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I owned Anderson's Ornemtal Iron from 1980 to 1985 and then changed the Name to Anderson Iron Works & Fabrication Inc. due to a change in my license to do Low rise structural steel buildens ( AIWF) from 1985 to 2009 but hung in there for 1 more year 2010..for a total of 30 years.. Some of my work came out in LA Stile Magazine & Architectural Records Magazine.. I do have the magazines if you wish to see: Economy brought me down, I also own Americal Builders Inc., remodeling of homes and businesses I then Slightly changed the name and added Inspection Services.Due to A friend from the city of LA, Materials control I took classes and was Certified for inspection of structural steel, welding, in the past years I got along with, Engineers, Architect, City and County officials, During Business I had 3 Attorneys that taught me many things in business as well as a friend, spent time talking about business.& Political issues .And solving problems and issues. Makeing me more value in business and with people.This is when I had Anderson's. Having a business for 30 years, really is something. We also talked about people in genera.. The Economy & Covid-19 caused Americal Builders and Inspection services Inc. take a dip and put it on the shelf ( not closed, on hold ) due to the economy work was slow and people taking longer to pay, A friend told me about a bridge in Long Beach they were having problems & issues with people and the bridge. knowing what I know and business slow, and I already built 3 small pedestrian brides, and I always wanted to build a bigger bridge, I then helped build the Gerald Desmon Bridge, Rams Statmem stadium, Lucas Museum.I then broke my leg in two places and twisted my ankle,& knee. Some work started to come up for Americal Builders, but I needed to take time off due to leg issues and COVID continue to put guys on & off the job. A real pain on top of a pain I'm having to hold out,a little longer ..
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This is an easy one..I have been doing research and talking to homeless people, as well as going and spending an hour at there school about 6 to 8 miles from Downtown LA.. I have noticed, many homeless people are being turned away from these schools.. As one proctor said you stink, get out...however she is right this white guy & black guy, did stink you can smell them 5 feet away.. However people should know this is part of the business..I have 2 plans my second plan is the best of all because you will see a huge reduction and the best part is very little to no homeless at all however again. I would need to go on record so if some one steals it you know this idea came from me. So. Let's go to item one, continuing people being turned away, at these schools, we should have portable shower's and clean clothing, for these people.. who show a good educational concern should have access to these now home placement ( converted motels and similar) other that are not in this program, they will go under plan No. 2:still continuing plan 1: We have people that are going through education as a hairstylist, make up artist, facialist, fingers and pedicures these people can do community service say about 25 people as part of there study's of passing grade..These hairstyles would have to leave hair on them say at lease 4" on men and 10 +" on Women, there is no shaving on top just to get it over with, unless loss of hair is overwhelming. Another words We want these people to look very professional ( would be good to also do 25 elderly people in homes and similar for a total of 50 people they need help too) this would transform the the homeless person into society to be placed into a working environment. Believe me you won't be able to tell if they were ever homeless. It's amazing. Now for the homeless who are a little more of an issue I have a plan that Will work... I need to go on record as I said before I blurt this out... By the way it will work, and all those ideas that others are purposing WILL FAIL, and I can explain why it will. money will be spent and You will still have the same problem.. not good for any of us with this eye sore and loss of the tax payers money.
Electric cars are revolving very nicely & Solar is continuing being a real plus. Both of theses items will continue to grow. We all need more productivity in the research to be more self contained, and not depend on others..I my self have a plan that will reduce carbon emissions each day. I need to be on record so that this idea won't be stolen,before I blurt it out..
Where there are homes in rural areas, clearing the area is still very important, looking at pitchers before and after you can clearly see heavy brush near and up to the house, is not good, some houses look like a fire pit with trees overhang on to the house, not good.. landscaping is very important. We need to set money aside in government funding when people have problems like this. This is another broken system that we have. The last 4 years we have had are unbelievable. When a fire starts it's a very good chance, it won't see a drop of water until 2 to 6 hrs. At the beginning only by ground crews. As you know once a fire is started, it travels at a rate of 14.29 miles per hr. And consumes everything in it's path, it can double in size in 30 seconds in the beginning.. LA times reported April 07-2019 it took 2 hours before the first dropping of water from a helicopter and 6 hours roughly before a tanker air plane came. A state response Area (SRA) can get to the fire in 20 minutes...This means someone is not doing there job. When time is of the most important essence. Look at the November 2018 Wolsey Fire in southern ca. LA and Venture we lost 100,000 acres, It Burned heavy brush and slow on site, was a problem. It also contaminated our costal waters with dust,bacteria a big issue for marine life. Air quality and something called Enterococcus that can cause bacteria that cause Lung diseases and gastrointestinal disease was 53 times higher. This notice is to be taken very seriously: At the first site of smoke 30 minutes later.. All aircraft's should be in the air at the fire site, and not 2 to 6 hrs. Later that's just crazy. I will take care of this, I'm changing the system for the better of all concerned. We no longer work the old way, and that's on everything.
You can Not over tax the rich... they will just drag up and leave, go to another State or country. Camble soup did, they went to Ireland, Ford was going to Mexico and also a large air conditioner company as well,and Trump stopped them gave them some encouragement of incentives and they stayed. Look at Disney they moved there office to Florida.. California is screwing up, By these companies leaving due to high taxes, and crazy condition that people are asking for.. Companies are saying forget it I'm going. The opposite reaction is well you just lost your job, your retirement, your benefits,your 401K, and everyone else loss perhaps a product that is made in the USA..Sometimes companies contribute on there own.. Companies are already facing issues by people doing scams. Leave them alone.
There are so many successful stories, and some are very amazing. Each and every person is unique in there own ways, some have a vision of things that are easy to foresee things, than others do. One thing is for certain education, ambition,the will to stride,and the ability to for see issues and to over come them, are very important. Take a look at AB2738 During this Covid-19 education has been devastated, people trying to get ahead have lost out on time, Now some one thinks to reduce more learning time is going to help them... Another crazy bad idea, the more you know stimulates the mind to think more and for you to come up with more ideas. Cutting down education because some people, say there having a hard time. Hell Everyone is having a hard time: The idea is turn your bad disposition into good, If your a good person, better things will come to you..The reason why you study is to get ahead so you know how to do things if it takes schooling & working late sooo just do it I hade to do it for several years, yes it's hard, but so what, and then all of a sudden it's all good again. Studying keeps people out of trouble, and keeps your eyes open. So the reason why there is lower income is because they need to learn more to better there selves than they are now,and to do better at what they do for perfection The quality of work and ideas are being extinct. That's why we have problems today lacking quality and greedy people is an issue. It has been noticed today's people are not wanting to do the time to excel. They want some one to just say here you go, the problem is they won't be able to do as good of a job as others who did the time to study.
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Wile having time off due to my leg I started taking notice at the news, with all the allegations of crazy essence that is going on is so stupid and people being so disrespectful,hateful is crazy. Homeless people,Had me now thinking about past issues at a job site. A homeless person stopped seen me telling someone to double check his drawings because he is screwing up. The homeless guy then said what do I do I said I have my own privat business in doing construction inspection. He said he just wanted to know who his employees are he said your paying me in taxes, This jerk is right. I told him he should go to school, he said there's one down the street. But has more fun watching the job. Well I went down to that school. No one was in there I ask the proctor where's everyone at. She said they pop in once in a wile. I picked up a sandwich and went back to that school. A black guy and a white guy showed up proctor said you guys stink and they really did you can smell them 5 feet away. She told them to level and come back when there all cleaned up with clean clothes. The white guy said that will take me 2 days on foot to get there and 2 days to come back, the black guy said, ya I hear that. For some reason that bothered me. I then talk to them out side, went down the street, got them both a sandwich and soda,and pick a little information. That seam to be very interesting at the time. I have no idea why I did that .. I spent an hour and a half With them..And I new I had to get back to work. I Talked to other homeless people the next day on the job, I had more information on what they feel and what they don't. I found it interesting. I remember this when I was laying on the couch. With a double broken leg. I started looking at that problem and other issues. Then more and more, reading,makeing phone calls collecting information, and trying to salvage a broken state, it seems, I am finding answers. All my friends are in business, and speaking to a few they say well how come no one hasn't come up with that ..Good question.. A very good friend that owns 4 car washes a graphic design company and an auto body business we always go snow skiing even said you should be Governor. Your solving all the problems and your content is very good..Yes I can fix the problem we now having and it's easier than you think... and I'm continuing finding more and more issues. For instance no one is talking about food coming from China a while back many people died, and many people were very sick.It seems A washer that cleans the carrots, peas, corn broke down. Looking into this China use's people poop and urine to grow the food we get..in 2012 it is said they found human growth hormones, but not enough to be of concern.Really. What about Now..because of the Covid virus I called and ask if they noticed Covid and vaccines in the food. Some one ask who am I.. I told them and they hung up. A no answer is an answer.... We are going to get our food right here, & China is about to loose an account.
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- homelessness and crime
- cost of living
- natural resources
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I’m a fourth-generation Californian, born in San Francisco and raised in Nevada County, California by my adoptive parents.
At 11 years old I began a quest to find my natural family, a goal that would remain entirely unrealized throughout my teenage years. Left with a continued sense of searching, I was spurred toward a life of adventure. As soon as I graduated from high school, and following the death of my adoptive mother from cancer, I set to travel. Ultimately, I explored nearly 60 countries, getting by on $10 a day while climbing mountains, hitchhiking, and experiencing every adventure I could find.
One such adventure was my joining a co-ed team training to ski to the South Pole. Despite giving the training my all, I was unable to raise the necessary $70,000 and could not join the expedition.
In response, I founded The American Women’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition and began pulling together the best female outdoor adventurers in the country, including Ann Bancroft, the first woman to reach the North Pole by foot, and other top Himalayan climbers. Ten months after organizing the team, however, I was told by the other members that as a beginner I lacked their experience of 15-20 years and as such, they kicked me off the team and went to the South Pole without me.
This time it took a year to recover from the blow, but when I did it was with the decision to cross Alaska by myself. First, though, I chose commercial fishing as a test of my fortitude. Thus my Alaskan adventure began on The Big Valley, an ill-fated vessel, which I would watch sink twelve years later along with my captain, Gary Edwards, and four other crew members, on a television show called The Deadliest Catch.
Satisfied with what commercial fishing taught me both about Alaska and myself, I moved to Homer in 1993, securing a job training Iditarod sled dogs, while I organized my trans-Alaskan journey. I also trained with two retired sled dogs who would help to pull my sled while I cross-country skied down the frozen Yukon River. In yet another setback though, the owner took the dogs back five days before I was to leave. He intended for me to give up.
I did not. Five days later, at 27 years old, at 55F below, I attached myself to the 160-pound sled. Filming for National Geographic, I skied and pulled my supplies down the frozen river. As it would turn out, I encountered another dog along the way who became my travel companion after I saved him from being shot.
Much of what I faced along the journey was surmountable with minor adjustments. That was until halfway across the state, when the only “road” I knew, the frozen Yukon River, began melting prematurely below my feet. I had two options: give up or find a different way.
While I waited for the ice to finish melting, I stayed in a tiny log cabin along the bank of the river offered to me by the local Athabascan villagers. As the weather continued to warm, I pondered my next steps, the first of which, it would turn out, was just a few steps away. Outside my front door, an old birch bark-style canoe that had been hidden under a snowbank slowly became visible. I finished digging it out before going to the elders of the village with my announcement: I was going to build my own canoe, all I needed were some tools. Unfortunately, the elders’ response was an emphatic, “No! Women don’t build canoes!”
Once again, I made the rounds in the village, but this time explaining to each of the elders, “No, you don’t understand. Where I come from, in California, that’s what women do! We’re canoe-builders! That’s our thing!”
Despite their initial reluctance, they lent me the necessary tools. I then proceeded to cut down three trees, split the trunks, and plane the 18-foot-long planks of birch and spruce. The villagers watched me, doubtful at first, but becoming increasingly interested in this odd white lady, building her own wooden canoe. Only after I completed planning and began assembling the wood, their skepticism was replaced with enthusiasm and support. Keeping my eye on the goal, I modified the boat for rough waters, and the locals began to offer advice, C-clamps, galvanized screws, and oil-based marine paint, helping me to improve and fortify the canoe.
The children were particularly engaged in what I was doing because it had no longer been customary to hand-build canoes in the village for the last two decades. Together, we would learn and relearn how to build a canoe, tapping into lost and primitive knowledge.
In this way, the canoe became the catalyst for deeper insights into our humanity. Our collective power and ability to share knowledge had not only created something both practical and poignant, it had greatly expanded my understanding and appreciation of what humanity is capable of. It also highlighted for me the real value of leadership and the inherent power and wisdom of our collective-genius when properly harnessed.
In a canoe fortified by a collective effort of young and old, an endeavor that blended the venerable knowledge of the Athabascans with the creativity and enthusiasm of those willing to undertake what seemed impossible, I was able to continue the final - and unexpected - leg of my journey. This 18-foot canoe, generally reserved for the calm waters of a muskrat pond, would now be able to endure the dangerous and pounding four-foot white-capped waves of the treacherous Bering Sea, allowing me to complete my 1,500-mile odyssey in four months and six days.
During this isolated winter solo trek, I learned, of all things, the exponential power of community and the human spirit. Lessons that came to serve as both the catalyst and guide for my community work.
For the rest of the story, and the lessons of legacy learned along the way, go to: https://www.thefoghornexpress.com/reinette-s-solo-alaskan-crossing
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In order to seriously address the humanitarian crisis known as homelessness, we need to be smart with the assets that we currently have and retrofit our commercial buildings into mental facilities and drug/alcohol centers, as well as interim low-income housing.
As this gets underway, we must also conduct triage on the streets, utilizing the most current data from our homeless shelters and county Continuum of Care committees, and identify those who are on the streets and most at risk to themselves, the surrounding businesses, and residents. Those who are in crisis on the streets will never be able to lift themselves up if they continue to stay in the very environment that is keeping them down.
For those who are not grappling with mental issues or drug/alcohol addiction, we need to provide interim low-income housing while providing reskilling opportunities and job placement.
We have many successful models that provide different opportunities for providing a way out of homelessness and living on the streets. One such example can be found in San Antonio, TX, called Haven for Hope. This is a 22-acre all-inclusive campus that provides a one-stop shopping of 183 different service providers so as to increase accessibility and efficiency of resources. Haven for Hope is currently serving 1,700 people daily on their campus. In addition, Haven for Hope serves over 700 people daily through their low-barrier, emergency shelter program, called The Courtyard. This offers guests a safe place to sleep, hot meals and showers, laundry services, and outreach services including mental health care and housing services.
We also need to look at the root causes of why many Californians are unable to afford the quality of life of their grandparents and parents. Over-taxation is one reason why Californians are struggling. California's taxation needs a massive overhaul. The inability to make ends meet is only exacerbated by the lack of affordable housing.
Most Californians don’t know there are massive corporate companies buying single-family homes under the auspices of home rental companies like Invitation Homes (and larger ownership companies like BlackRock and Blackstone) which collectively own more than 180,000 single-family homes in California. The companies purchase homes with cash offers, paying over the asking price, with the intention of having them be forever-rentals, and the average potential home-buyer (even with two incomes) is unable to compete.
We need legislation to bring an end to this hostile corporate takeover of Californian homes as well as reduce the cost of building permits. We would also be wise to universally incentivize different types of building materials such as hempcrete, cob, superadobe, and other alternative building materials. We need to start utilizing the resources in our respective regions. This can keep the price of building materials down, as well as make housing more fireproof in a fire-prone state.
To get to this answer, Californians need to first conduct what is known as “cradle to grave” calculations on everything that is considered “alternative energy” and green, including transportation. If we don’t do this, we could be committing what is known as Jevons paradox whereby “you make matters worse by trying to make them better.”
I have personally worked in the green economy and have come to find out that many of the alternative energy solutions have never had their impacts fully calculated. This is called the “Cradle to Grave,” or Lifecycle Assessment (LCA); a methodology “used to evaluate natural effects linked to all the phases in the life of the product from obtaining of raw materials, processing of these materials, manufacturing, dissemination, usage, maintenance, and repair, and selling or reusing.” Until these calculations are applied, we will never have a true answer as to which modality of energy production truly benefits humanity and the environment.
If we are concerned about carbon, we should turn to soil regeneration to sequester it. The most powerful and effective carbon-sequestering action Californians could undertake, and one that receives little to no attention is the benefits of restoring our topsoil. There is a multitude of positive impacts of healthy, living topsoil beyond the fact that it naturally sinks carbon. It also recharges our aquifers, increases rainfall, increases food yield, protects biodiversity including the pollinator population, reduces catastrophic fires, increases nutritionally dense foods, and the list goes on....
It’s time we rebuild California communities devastated by catastrophic fire by utilizing California’s Infrastructure Bank (IBank) as a driving economic force, and begin restoring fire-devastated areas, industries, farms, mom-and-pop businesses, manufacturing, and revitalizing local/regional economies without ever having to go to Big Banks to do this. Now more than ever we need California’s Infrastructure Bank to meet its fullest potential, jumpstart California’s economy, rebuild after a catastrophe, and provide much-needed jobs by doing so.
The IBank was created to finance public infrastructure and private development that promote job growth, contribute to a strong economy and improve the quality of life in California communities. But the bank has never been fully or properly funded. It is long past time to dramatically expand the IBank, increase per-project caps, and use our own in-state resources to invest in our future. Rather than spend billions of dollars in interest payments to borrow money from Wall Street.
Two major reforms are required. First, we have to broaden the charter of the IBank and remove the exceedingly low financing caps that prevent the IBank from supporting any projects of real significance, particularly in areas struck by catastrophic fire. Second, we also must remove the exceedingly low financing caps that prevent the Ibank from supporting any projects of real significance.
If we structure a new California Main Street microloan and grant program to target quick money to families and individuals with a dream and a need, we will spur a massive wave of recovery while headed on a path to resilient, local economic growth, for pennies on the dollar.
This would require a multi-prong approach that focuses on healthy eating/living no matter one’s income, community building, and job training.
As governor, I will instruct the Secretary of Education and Secretary of Natural Resources to establish a dual Secretary-level administered program to ensure that every neighborhood in the state has the resources and support for the people who live in that neighborhood to develop community gardens tied to a school or group of schools. This provides ample opportunities for children and families in their respective neighborhoods who wish to participate in growing and harvesting food and sharing in the bounty of the garden. This is a key program to enlist the participation and leadership of our veterans, service members, and their families. This is one of the best tools for struggling families; this provides healthy food, creates, community, and improves the overall well-beings of neighborhoods.
Community and family gardens are essential to healthy living. California is one of the most fertile and favorable growing regions in the world yet in many neighborhoods across this state, it has become almost impossible for most residents to participate in the process of growing at least some of their own food. This must change. It will be a foundational piece of a truly healthy California populace going forward.
We need to expand CalFresh, California’s implementation of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Many low-income families simply do not have easy access to fresh produce from local grocery stores or farmers markets. We need to ensure that the program supports the provision of stores and markets where participants can actually use the financial support to purchase healthy foods.
We also need to ensure that participants have opportunities to learn how to prepare healthy meals. Many of our people and communities have lost what used to be basic common knowledge about how to grow, prepare, preserve and store certain basic foods. Under my administration, we will expand CalFresh to support a rebirth of common-sense local food production and access.
When it comes to employment, it’s time to jumpstart trade schools. In addition, every person who turns 18 in California should have an opportunity to do one to two years of public service. CaliforniaVolunteers coordinates volunteer activities across the state but there is tremendous room for expansion and improvement of the program. The CCC is a beloved state agency that enrolls young men and women, ages 18 to 25, for a year of natural resource work and emergency response.
We will expand the work and funding for both CaliforniaVolunteers and the California Conservation Corps (CCC), providing improved pay and benefits as well as expanded opportunities to participants. The work of CaliforniaVolunteers and the CCC will include:
→ programs to support the growth of living soils on farmland and natural landscapes,
→ more robust forest restoration and fire suppression efforts,
→ development of pollinator migratory zones, and
→ neighborhood and school-based organic gardens, and composting sites.
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The extreme polarization of our current politics has blinded many of us to our common challenges and to our common cause in forging durable solutions. Our current politics has also left numerous communities, relationships, and economies in tatters. We must stop this madness. In order to bridge the dangerous chasm of this politically manufactured divide and mend the deep wounds inflicted over the last two years, we must focus our sights, collectively, on a far-reaching common goal that lifts us from our present myopic disharmony.
What most Californians don’t realize is that 80% of people agree on 90% of the issues. Not only is this a rule of thumb, but I have personally experienced this over and over again on the campaign trail.
Californians want to be able to make ends meet, and know that their children have a solid education and opportunities in the future. Californians want clean water, soil, air, and healthy food. They also want transparency and accountability within their government. They also want to know that their hard-earned dollars, and retirement, aren’t going to be usurped by over-taxation and inflation.
We have everything and everyone we need to fix all that is wrong with our state. We must tend to all the resources we have more carefully, wisely, and efficiently — our young people, our elders, our lands and waters, our communities, our creativity, and our finances — protecting the most vulnerable while supporting everyone to thrive in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I commit to you, all the people of California, that this will be my charge every day: to empower each and every one of you to lead a free and fulfilling life. This is why I am running for Governor as a decline-to-state, common-sense candidate, focused on core values and ethics and on implementing pragmatic solutions.
When I am governor, Californians will once again have the freedom to manage their own day-to-day lives and the lives of their families. I will ensure that the state always provides comprehensive, transparent information in a clear manner, allowing Californians and their communities the ability to make informed decisions.
Now is the time to commit to a common-sense, purpose-driven, local control system of self-governance that is centered around the health and well-being of all children, their parents, and caregivers, and all of the business owners, farmers, teachers, and workers who make this state golden.
This is why I have focused on rebuilding California’s economy based upon healing and restoration: Rebuilding our topsoil and pollinator populations, expanding regenerative farming, ensuring the legacy of family farms and ranches, expanding Indigenous stewardship, ensuring equitable water allocation, expanding community gardens and intergenerational centers, and restoring our forests.
In addition, it's time we bring back common-sense education that includes teaching the trades, critical thinking, and ultimately making "better humans" by graduation day.
Along with my candidacy, I offer the Contract with California to empower all of us to rebuild our lives and our state. Under my Contract with California, a 30-page blueprint, I weave together many of the best ideas from across California and beyond, to focus on a new foundation of common purpose and ideals for the people of California.
In 1988, the US Congress and Senate finally recognized the fundamental role that the principles of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy — the Great Law of the Iroquois — played in the creation of the US Constitution. My Contract with California has been crafted in the same spirit, but with the re-inclusion of two of the most critical principles from the Great Law of the Iroquois that were not included in the Constitution: the Seventh Generation Principle and the Wisdom of Grandmothers and Elders Principle.
“Every decision we make today
should serve seven generations from now.”
My Contract with California embodies and celebrates the inherent value of always making decisions with an eye to the next seven generations—with an ear to our elders and the last seven generations. Focusing on what is best for our children and using the basic wisdom that we have acquired over generations provides us with the means to step out of our current destructive trajectory, set aside our differences, and realign our priorities.
This campaign supersedes politics and election cycles. This is about creating a cultural shift within California itself. We are much more powerful than we realize. Our leaders have led us to believe that our destiny is forged by their policies and legislation. Nothing could be further from the truth.
On average, a person has 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day, many of which are connected to actions. This is where we stand in our leadership; realizing these tiny, and what seems like insignificant decisions add up over time. The more we realize this, the more we can embrace our power, and be effective in creating the future we all desire for ourselves and our children’s children.
It's time we provide measurement and a guiding light for our leadership and the decisions we make as a society: The Seventh General principle.
Join me, as we forge this path together.
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My Contract with Californians (CWC) is a living document that embodies and celebrates the inherent value of always making decisions with an eye on the next seven generations and with an ear to our elders and the last seven generations.
In 1988, the US Congress finally recognized the fundamental role that the principles of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy — the Great Law of the Iroquois — played in the creation of the US Constitution. The Contract with Californians has been crafted in the same spirit, but with the re-inclusion of two of the most critical principles from the Great Law of the Iroquois that were not included in the Constitution: the Seventh Generation Principle and the Wisdom of Grandmothers and Elders Principle.
My Contract with Californians embodies and celebrates the inherent value of always making decisions with an eye to the next seven generations and with an ear to our elders and the last seven generations. Focusing on what is best for our children and using the basic wisdom that we have acquired over generations provides us with the means to step out of our current destructive trajectory, set aside our differences, and realign our priorities.
Under my Contract with Californians, our children — the future of our state — are at the center of our wheel, but every spoke in the wheel counts. The Contract with Californians should inspire us to consider what is possible when we work together to rebound from the last two years so our children, and the children of our children, have a future to thrive in. The Contract has seven sections:
1. Natural Resources Stewardship
2. Food and Farms
3. Common Sense Education
4. Real Public Health and Individual Wellbeing
5. Durable Economic Growth
6. Vibrant Communities
7. New Civic Engagement
This is a living document, one that is intended to expand during this campaign, based upon citizen wisdom and stakeholder input throughout California. This collaborative process ensures we stay on task and target to meet our goal of rebuilding the California dream for all of us.
For the complete 30-page Contract With Californians, go to: https://www.electreinette.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RS-for-Gov-_-Contract-With-Californians.pdf
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In this interview, with DailyClout's Naomi Wolf, Reinette Senum describes her background in community development, energy conservation, and creating practical solutions to empower the cultural shift in California. Her focus is on answers, not on political parties.
This is a purpose-driven campaign: It sidesteps division and creates solutions.
The vast majority of environmental problems we are facing in California can be dealt with by rebuilding our topsoil. This positively impacts our water, farms, fire reduction, pollinators, weather, food, and health challenges, to name a few....
Join English/Spanish Political Commentator, Anthony Cabassa, as he interviews CA Governor Candidate, Reinette Senum. She dives into her community experience, time on city council when Covid hit, and where she can take California.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Reinette Senum is a fourth-generation Californian and two-time mayor and city council member of Nevada City, California, where she has been engaging in community building for nearly 20 years.
This year, she hopes to become California’s governor.
It was in 2017 that Reinette Senum testified before the CA Assembly Hearing opposing SB 649, a very controversial bill. The bill was attempting to supersede local authority, force cities to rent out any lamppost, telephone pole or right of way (or county building) to telecoms to place their cell towers as they saw fit. At that time, all cell antennas had been 4G (4th Generation).
Ultimately, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the bill at the 11th hour. Today, the 5G radiowave-microwave radiation technology remains untested on humans under its currently ubiquitous use throughout California.
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- Restore order and revoke unconstitutional executive orders.
- Ensure safety in our streets & businesses
- Recreate a positive business environment to strengthen and reinvigorate California businesses after the effects of the pandemic.
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As Governor, I will work to bring business and freedoms back to our state. I support small and family-owned businesses and will work to bring large jobs and revenue-generating businesses back to California. I support freedom: freedom of parents to raise their children, freedom to make our own medical decisions, and freedom to live our lives without government overreach.
With our eyes on tomorrow we will build a bright and sustainable future for our children. We will do this by placing our hands firmly on today’s problems and implementing statewide strategies to recover from the personal and economic losses resulting from the outbreak and mandated lockdowns of COVID-19. Together we will address the economy, the environment, education, societal equality, safety and security, our infrastructure and the growing homelessness rate. My decades of public service have prepared me to move California forward. Join me as we honor Constitutional freedoms and restore our great state to it place as a leader in global economics.
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I am an immigrant from Belfast, Northern Ireland. We came to the USA and California and it was a dream state where there was so much opporunity. I got my cosmetology license and eventually opened my own salon where staff could grow and prosper, like I want for all Californians. I listen to hudreds of people a week, from all different political parties, economic and ethnic bacgrounds. I can make decisions that are fair, fast, economical and are what the people are saying what they need and whatis lacking. I am not owned by any union or lobby.
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- Individuals that can not take care of themselves, I believe, it is the States responsibility to care for them. There are plenty of closed hospitals and military bases that could be repurposed quickly to fill this need.
2. For the homeless living on the street, I want cities to take over or build 8 -10 story parking lots or parking like structures in downtown or industrial areas. (With most office workers working from home there should be parking structures that are under used now)
The structures would shelter them from the sun and rain and still have air flow going through. Each person would be given an assigned spot where they can move with their pets, belongings and the communities they have formed on the street. (Just like us, they have formed communities that they are comfortable with so, unlike Roomkey, they are not isolated from their community) They can still do drugs and drink but they could not manufacture and sell drugs or alcohol.
There would be toilets, showers and laundry available for them. They would have an address they could use (this is a HUGE need), access to banking and if needed, help with medications, mental health, get a GED, get an ID, accessing programs that they may be entitled to, job training and regular meals. There would be wrap around programs to address the needs of the residents.
There would be security for the residents of the structures and for the surrounding areas. There could be a floor just for women because, I found out, that when women first experience homelessness, 99% are raped.
There is a lot of duplicity with the programs helping the homeless. Having them in one location would cut down on that and make the funding available for homeless services more efficient.
Groups that feed the homeless would have 1 location to go to instead of spreading all over the city.
Homelessness is a harsh and dangerous lifestyle. It is inhumane to let people continue to live on the streets with no sanitation, running water, safety codes, vermin. It is unhealthy and unsanitary for the homeless and the housed. Close to me, the homeless are destroying a protected habitat for migratory water fowl.
This is to try to allow them to reenter society. Not all people will be able to reenter society and they can stay in the structure indefinitely.
3. The motorhome population would have large parking areas that would have hookups for sewage, water and electricity. They would have the services the homeless living in the structures like an address to use, toilets, showers and laundry etc.
The homeless would not be forced to live in these structures or parking areas but they would NOT be allowed to live on the streets or park wherever they want. There are still shelters they can access.
Fire Department Personnel has told me that 50% of all calls are to homeless encampments and motor homes. This is another reason to place the homeless in a safer environment off the streets.
I would look into hydrogen and possibly nuclear power. Both generate very low to no carbon emissions. If they can be done safely they should be considered.
Preventing wildfires is a top priority. We need to manage the forests better and clean up the exess and/or dead trees and brush.
Illegal camping and camp fires are a major cause of wildfires and those should be stopped and fined.
Hiring more "Hotshot" firefighters.
Utilizing natural ways to clear brush like using goats and making sure all propety has a clearance primiter for fire safety.
This is a multi layer, long term issue. Some things can be implemented quickly and others will be an ongoing effort to uplift those in lower income catagories.
I want to lower the gas taxes. Californians pay more than almost any state in gas taxes and we have he worst roads. I would audit what happened to the money that is supposed to used to maintain our roads.
Free bus and train passes to lower income workers and students.
I want to look into how some states do not have income tax for their residents, if we could do that in California, that would be a game changer for residents here.
I would cancel AB5 (the gig work law) so that people can work as independant contractors choosing how much and when they work.
We should be policing lower income areas more so that neighborhoods are safer for the residents and they are not victims of crime.
There are new housing ideas that are turning shipping containers that are refurbished into mini apartments that are stackable and would be able to house people in secure , clean envirnonment with common areas, at reasonable rents for lower income earners, former foster kids who have aged out of care, low income seniors.
Encourage education and have a financial literacy course in each grade level so that people have more control for their financial future. I want to offer free community college or trade school to kids who attend school regularly and maintain a "C" or higher grade average and participate in sports or work part time. I believe EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO ENDING SYSTEMIC POVERTY!
Just like the old saying "Give someone a fish and they can eat for a day, teach them to fish and they can eat forever."
Some would just want to more heavely tax the very wealthy, but I dont think that is a good option. We want those residents here and keeping their businesses here. We want to stop the exodus of companies leaving California with good paying jobs.
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I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I am pro peace, non-violence, social justice & equal opportunity, pro choice (for everything including school), sustanable environment, pro business and support those who wear a badge who serve and protect.
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Education is THE key to ending systemic poverty!
By giving kids an education that focuses on life skills and encouraging college or trade school they will graduate with skills that are more than just a minimum wage job.
Knowledge is power and the more knowledge people have the more empowered they feel.
When kids are undereducated they are more and more challenged and fall more behind year by year until they don’t want to struggle anymore.
To supplement education, I would propose making instructional videos that would cover all grades and all subjects. We could make a YouTube channel that kids could watch videos of subject material that they are also learning in their classrooms. We are in California, we have an abundance of people who could make content interesting and informative for students. This would help kids who struggle to learn in the traditional way, have fallen behind, need extra time on subjects and give kids a bit of a leg up if they view them in advance of the classes.
This could even help kids worldwide and anyone who wants to learn (Like ESL students, older people who lack education and people who live in rural areas who don’t have easy access to schools)
I would like traditional books to be moved to an electronic form when possible. Besides not needing the paper that books use, the weight of the books that kids have to carry around, they could be updated much easier. Electronic books could have references that could be clicked on easily and they could be listened to or read.
Education needs to have more life skills taught in classes and Financial Literacy should be taught appropriately at every grade level. People are unprepared to hold jobs because of lack of quality relevant educational system and the disconnect between Home, School and Community . By the time kids graduate from High School they should have a good grasp on what it takes to start an independent life.
I would like to offer 2 years of free junior college or trade school to any student in California if they attend school regularly, maintain a “C” or higher grade average and work part time or participate in a sports program….If something is just given to someone then it doesn’t have the same value as when the person is working towards a goal for themselves.
I believe you should have a choice on where your kids go to school.
Recently, there has been controversy of transgender people participating in sports. I am all for exclusivity, but a trend where opposite genders are participating in sports as a new gender is not fair or equal. I propose increasing the two separate gender sports programs to three to have a dedicated non-binary group. I believe this will be the way to go in all future sporting events.
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I believe my policy will help aleve the number of immigrants waiting at the border and help the businesses that need workers.
As an immigrant myself, I am pro legal immigration. I believe no person is “illegal” but their status may be. This proposal covers 2 issues that are impacting California.
Right now we have hundreds of thousands of people arriving at our southern border, at the same time we have thousands of businesses that are struggling to hire staff. With all the immigrants coming to the border and all the businesses in California needing staff, why not combine the two to alleviate both issues.
Most of the positions that businesses need to fill are entry level, low skill positions that a lot of citizens don’t want to do. The United States and California have long depended on immigrant workers to fill these sorts of positions.
I propose that we vet and match up immigrants with businesses that need employees. The immigrants would be given the opportunity to work for 2 years at a business in the program, pay taxes and start to learn English and if they can do this, and be checked on periodically through the 2 years. It would give them a pathway to residency.
If they can not complete the 2 years they would be returned to their country of origin to apply through the legal process and those who do not want to participate or are incapable of participating they can wait at the border for their application for immigration to be processed.
Statewide day to Honor our citizens who wear a badge and serve and protect us.
I want to have a day to Honor those among us who wear a badge and serve and protect us. It would not be a hoilday because these are the people who never get holidays off. It would be like a Mother's Day or Father's Day, possibly on the 2nd Sunday in August or 2nd Sunday in October.
As Governor I will set aside a State wide day to honor and celebrate all our citizens who wear a badge working in Law Enforcement protecting us everyday and our citizens who work in the Fire Departments.
I honestly can’t believe that this hasn’t happened before and we need to show our appreciation to those who put their lives on the line every day to serve and protect us.
The job they do for us is difficult and dangerous and underappreciated.
This would help with retention within heir departments and possibly make more people want to join these professions.
I am on the side of victims, not on those who commit crimes. I want everyone to feel safe in this once great state.
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- Companies relocating out of state - California is the worst state for business, has the highest poverty rate and 2nd highest unemployment rate
- Housing costs - 2nd least affordable housing in the country and Homelessness - highest in the country out of any state
- Immigration - Northern Triangle and Mexico having a carve out immigration policy due to historical connection and shared values due to Christian faith backgrounds
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This is Cristian Morales’ (@CMoralesCAGOV) first venture into politics, running as a Republican for California Governor. Cristian brings valuable experience in other ways, leveraging his personal and business qualifications. Born in Guatemala and raised by highly educated Guatemalan parents, the family immigrated to the U.S. during the 1970’s Cold War. Inspired by his family, Cristian went on to earn a Masters in Industrial and Labor Relations and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Cornell and Purdue. A 20+ year career spent in manufacturing factories (Automotive/Aerospace/Defense) leading multicultural teams from every demographic and age group, combined with his early upbringing in Guatemala has shaped Cristian into an insightful and broad-minded leader. His political belief system stems from his personal background and management approach – he genuinely connects with people and is known in the workplace as an advocate For All Voices. A fair-minded, accomplished businessman, Cristian wants to take that further into politics focusing on California’s labor movement, immigration, and economic issues.
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Be the Labor Candidate for Governor of California, and the first Latino representing the voices of the working class — improve the quality of education to give Californians the skills needed to be competitive in the market, and make it affordable to do business in the state again, bringing back job opportunities for the disenfranchised blue-collar worker. Immigration will also be at the forefront of Cristian’s plan, aligning with the work already begun with his non-profit Northern Triangle.
The main pillars that I aim to address as Governor are the economy, Covid, housing costs, crime, homelessness, health care, and civil rights. California is ranked worst or near the bottom in every measurable metric regarding the above. Governor Gavin Newsom is failing us and causing an exodus of jobs from California that has accelerated since he became Governor. His inaction to resolve these issues or worse willful actions will lead to a loss of the majority of manufacturing and working-class manual labor jobs from California. The Democratic Party has moved on from being the party of labor to the party of elites, Big Tech, Hollywood, and the media. The Republican Party is now the party of labor and owes it to the working class to advocate for them. Companies that once would consider California as a place to do business now no longer even would consider moving their company to California.
Together, with your support, we can make a change - revitalize the California Dream. It won’t be easy. The deck is stacked against us. However, with faith, we can begin to turn and improve things around for all Californians.
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- Restore personal freedom and liberty to the people by ending the "State of Emergency" and mandates issued by the current leadership.
- Restore Law and Order by repealing Prop 47 and supporting our law enforcement officers in doing the job they have been trained to do. Making crime punishable once again.
- Solving the Homeless crisis that is destroying our cities by addressing the root causes of the problem which include drug addiction, mental health, and housing.
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I would support a comprehensive program that focuses on the root of the issues. The majority of homelessness can be categorized into 3 different groups, all with subset groups or issues. 1) People with mental and/or substance addiction issues; 2) People who are down on their luck whether it be from a job loss or other major event in their life; 3) People who chose a life on the streets. This group has no desire to change they way they live. My plan is to begin the process with a temporary shelter processig center. This is a place where people can get a meal, get cleaned up, receive shelter, and be evaluated to see where they should go next. Step two is to get help for those who need and want it. Step three would be to integrate these folks back into society where they once again have a sense of purpose and self worth. This is not a problem that is easily solved by just spending money. California has spent $12B - $14B in the last 3 years and the problem has only gotten worse. Bad policies add to the increasing homelessness issues in our state.
I would support investigating the use of Nuclear Power as a source for energy. It has proven to be super low cost tot eh end user and has a very small carbon footprint. Given the advancement in technology, this can be impleneted safely and provide power for generations to come. We should also rely more on our own natural gas supply. It is the cleanest in the world. Geothermal sources are an excelent alternative as well. The largest obstacle to overcome is how to make the existing infrastructure (power grid) more reliable. In it's current condition, the power grid cannot support any future growth, as evidenced by our continued "rolling" black outs or brown outs as they call them today. In general, good leadership will invest in the right people to implemented solid solutions for tomorrow and the future.
I fully support holding the responsible party accountable. In recent years we have seeen the increase of uncontrolled wildfires and the destruction left behind. Companies such as PG&E have been found responsible by way of failure to maintain facilities or transmission lines. These cases have been litigated and settlements reached. However, the Attorney Generals have failed the people. As the responsible party, PG&E should be required to cover all costs related to these fires. That includes home replacement, recovery of personal expenses, and all other financial impacts suffered by each individual. In addition, they should be required to fund fire insurance for all residents that no longer can be covered. I support forcing insurance compaines to provide fire insurance for homewoners. If they cancel your policy, our government needs to fight for the poeple on this matter. It is the right thing to do.
It must start with the education system. We live in an age where blue collar workers (plumbers, electricians, welders, carpenters, etc.) earn an average wage of $50 to $60 per hour. That equates to an annual income of roughly $100,000. However, our school system no longer teaches vocational training to high school kids. What is being taught is for kids to go to school, get a good education, go to college, then get a job in your field of study. There is no focus on the middle class or lower income groups. No all kids are cut out for college even if they could afford to attend. When a student graduates from high school with basic vocational training in a blue collar field, now job opportunities open up outside of fast food or retail. This is how you break the cycle and close the income gap. Additionally, we need to stop rewarding those people who chose not to work and collect government assistance. They are a burden on the tax payer. All people need help once in a while, but making a career of living on government assistance is nothing more than criminal.
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- Pardon the millions of CA slaves convicted of unconstitutional victimless/consensual "crimes" (drugs, sexwork, etc)+FREE most of 100k citizens in jails. Will make CA safe haven f/ALL WOMEN seeking abortions UNTIL BIRTH+mail abortifacients to US.
- Sue in Supreme Court to make CA (+USA!) a democracy by getting our citizens' votes to count equally, by abolishing (or weighing) Electoral College +Senate. I sued f/3 yrs+LOST:#19-275. Must PACK COURT NOW w/judges who KNOW democracy means equal vote.
- Fight f/wealth tax, as I did in my prez campaign f/20+yrs, on richest 1% (>$10m) to pay f/human rights: small $4k trailers f/ALL homeless in US, free college (pub+priv), affordable org vegs, basic income, health+childcare. NO LOCKDOWNS/MANDATES! Vax.
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- Foster policies that promote a consistent respect for the dignity of human life
- Foster policies that promote a fair distribution of wealth
- Foster policies that help safeguard California against the ravages of climate change
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Jim Hanink, here. I'm from Inglewood. My wife Elizabeth and I are about to celebrate our 54th wedding anniversary. Our large family, like our neighborhood, is racially diverse. For forty years I taught philosophy at Loyola Marymount University (LA). I'm a writer, blogger, videocaster, and organizer.
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I would support measures to provide decent permanent housing for the homeless. In addition I would support expanding wrap around mental health services. Lastly, I would support the aggressive prosecution of drug manufacturers and distributors.
I would support tax incentivies and the development of community owned utilities. Both measures would be cost effective and help make energy prices affordable/
I would support emergency relief efforts for those who have suffered such losses. I would support mandatory insurance programs to offset the loss of homes and jobs in the future. Lastly, I would work to prevent housing developments in fire prone areas.
I would support higher taxes for the super rich, an increase of the minimum wage, and experiments with universal basic income packages.
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I am the candidate of the American Solidarity Party. Please see our California FB page! American-Solidarity Party of California!
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- I want to change the status quo and address the real problems Californians are facing
- Address the Cost of Living
- Address the Homelessness
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Build mental health and rehabilitation centers in counties with ample land for people with mental health or drug addictions issues. Offer AA-type programs. Create housing in cities with tiny home villages/vacant buildings with meals, medical help, and professional training for the jobless looking for work. Offer affordable housing to workers with low pay.
About housing costs, lower the entire building process costs. Remedy the labor shortage. Up productivity. Use prefabricated homes.
No source of energy we produce is CO2 neutral. Besides developing new (hydrogen technology) & making cleaner existing sources of energy (recyclable solar panels), we need to have a blanket policy to help cut CO2 emissions. This includes:
- investing in innovation
- manage forests, plant billions of trees
- enhance the current train track system for cargo and people
- use agriculture practices that include natural fertilizers, low tiling, crop rotation, and no pesticides
- curb energy consumption
Provide worker protection for essential workers with low-wage jobs. Offer free education and employment training. Increase healthcare and mental health services. Provide affordable childcare. Address the racial and gender wealth gaps so everyone can build long-term financial stability regardless of race, gender, or zip code. Build more affordable housing. Support the reentry of people that have served with assistance, housing, education, and employment. Keep lowering the criminal system costs.
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I am addressing all the problems I see and offering solutions to them.
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- Solve the homelessness problem in California
- Develop the 200 miles of unused land from San Diego to Arizona along the border
- Develop revenue-generating programs for public schools to assist funding
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Bradley graduated cum laude with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Telecommunications Management.
He spent 15 years in IT, working for the corporate offices of Fed Ex Kinkos (Dallas, Tx), Ebay and Paypal Corporations (San Jose, Ca.), and Upper Deck Corporation (Carlsbad, Ca.), to name a few. He has handling being an IT Support Engineer, Asset Manager and Executive Support, before becoming San Diego's children's book author.
As an author, Bradley has written 50 books since 2014, donating 100% royalties to San Diego County public schools. He has held free book readings for over 50,000 in Southern California alone, and continues to be active with schools, non-profits and libraries throughout Southern California.
He recently has started his own political podcast show, has been coaching AYSO soccer for over 7 years, as well as continuing his book publishing and fundraising efforts, helping to raise over $500,000 for schools, libraries and non-profits since 2014.
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The State has a proposed budget of $12 billion to address homelessness. I propose the budget is applied towards purchasing "mini homes" for the 160,000+ homeless, building clutches of "communities", with the Social and Health Services offices assisting them ON-SITE of the communities. As an example, Amozon offers mini-homes for as low as $10,000 ($10k x 160,000 homeless = $1.6 billion) or modular mobile homes cost as little as $30,000 each ($30k x 160,000 = $4.8 billion). Utilizing the 200 miles of undeveloped land along the border, from San Diego to Yuma, Az. enables new cities to be built, along with these new "former homeless" communities, hadling both the Homeless issue and Housing crisis simultaneously. For $2-4 billion, you have now "housed" every homeless, with $8-10 billion still in the budget for infrastructure and land development.
One proposal I have would be to require developers to include solar on all new houses built over a "predetermined" square footage (i.e. solar on all new homes over 2500 square feet). I would bring back tax incentives for residents who install solar on exisitng homes. In developing the "mini home communities" for the current homeless population, solar farm installations can be added, both to produce power as well as jobs for the residents in the communities.
With the annual Santa Ana winds, we should "harness" the natural power with additional wind farms in key "high wind" areas, to aid in creating additional power.
Develop a speed rail/light rail system along the border, utilizing turbine power created by train windflow, as well as lining walls along tracks will solar paneling, with aid with creating power, as well as reducing illegal trafficking across the border.
With housing developments continually created in high risk areas, prone to flooding, wildfires, ect. there will ALWAYS be risk of loss. Due to the State's mandates on counties for required "roof" count builds to address housing issues, cities and counties are pressed to use every inch of developable land to meet these imposed requirements, hence building in high risk areas. With 200 miles of undeveloped land alond the border, new cities and developments can be built, handling well over 2-3 million new homes (afforable housing, residential houses, ect.), thus solving the housing crisis and eliminate developments in the high risk areas.
With the pandemic, and systematic closures of schools and businesses, coupled with high taxes and cost of gas, Californians across the board have been dealt a huge finacial hit, especially those in the low income communities throughout the State. With my development plans along the border, creating new cities, communities and a plethora of job opportunities and growth potential will help in rebuilding the finacial well-being of all Californians. With a State surplus and revenue-generating projects I have proposed, more money can be budgeted to better develop programs focused on finacial aid support for small-business and minority-owned business growth. Provide more funding to public school systems in lower-income school districts, enabling more opportunities for the futures of the children of lower income families.
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I believe the only way to end issues like homelessness, the housing crisis, climate issues, etc. is to SOLVE problems, as opposed to the political approach to "band aid" temporary fixes, costing taxpayers year after year. With my proposals to these issues, once these problems are solved, their will no longer be a need for the State to budget for them year after year.
Along with reeling in exuberant Government spend on unnecessary or wrongly implemented State projects (i.e. speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles), I intend to pursue plans for solving our dwindling water supply as well as the growing threats of devastating wildfires that plague our State.