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Zoltan Istvan is often considered the world’s leading transhumanist and a top Libertarian futurist. Zoltan began his futurist career by publishing The Transhumanist Wager, an award-winning, #1 bestseller in Science Fiction and Philosophy. The libertarian-minded novel has been compared to Ayn Rand’s work many times in major media and was a Top 5 Amazon book. During the 2016 elections, Zoltan interviewed with Gary Johnson to potentially be his preferred Vice Presidential running mate. Zoltan is also a well known technology journalist and a former filmmaker for the National Geographic Channel. As a successful entrepreneur, The New Yorker cited Zoltan made a "small real estate fortune." Zoltan also has executive experience via his former position as a director at a major wildlife nonprofit, WildAid. In total, Zoltan’s public work has received hundreds of millions of views, much of it through his political activism. He is running for California Governor for the Libertarian Party in 2018. Zoltan has spoken at the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, Microsoft, and been the opening Keynote at the Financial Times Camp Alphaville. He is a graduate of Columbia University, and lives in San Francisco with his physician wife and two young daughters. In a 5000-word feature on Zoltan, The New York Times wrote Zoltan is “polite and charismatic” and has a “plausibly Presidential aura.”
Like many entrepreneurs, I became a libertarian because of one simple concept: reason. It just made sense to embrace a philosophy that promotes maximum freedom and personal accountability. “Hands off” was my motto—and in business, if you wanted to succeed, those words are sacred. But “hands off” applies to more than just good entrepreneurial economics. It applies to social life, politics, culture, religion, and especially how innovation occurs.
I’ve been a passionate science and technology guy—an advocate of radical innovation—ever since I can remember. In college, I focused on the ethics and challenges of science for my Philosophy degree. But my stories for National Geographic and my witnessing of the Great Recession viscerally reminded me that government and the growing fundamentalism in Congress was desperately trying to control innovation and progress—even at the expense of people’s health, safety, and prosperity. With plenty of free time after the sale of my business to mount a challenge, I decided to take science and technology into the public and political realm; I decided to make a run for the U.S. presidency in 2016 as the self-described “science candidate.”
I knew I couldn’t win the election, but it was a great way to awaken many Americans to the desperate plight of our country’s increasingly stifled science and innovation sector. My experience in media has helped propel my candidacy. I spoke at the World Bank, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, was interviewed by the hacker collective Anonymous, and consulted for the U.S. Navy about technology, among other things. Even 2016 Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson invited me to interview as his possible vice president. Alone in his New Mexico house, we talked shop for 24 hours solid. He chose Governor Bill Weld as his VP, but I left Johnson knowing I would soon be making a stand for the Libertarian Party.
Due to the fact I was arguably the first visible science presidential candidate in American history, I ran a very centric, science and tech-oriented platform, one that was designed to be as inclusive of as many political lines as possible. With leadership comes some compromise, and I veered both right and left (mostly left) to try to satisfy as many people as I could, even when it meant going against some of my own personal opinions. I believe a politician represents the people, and he or she must never forget that—or forget the honor that such a task carries.
One thing I didn’t stray from was my belief that everything could be solved best by the ‘scientific method’—the bastion of reason that says a thing or idea works only if you can prove it again and again via objective, independent evaluation. I’ll always be a pragmatic rationalist, and reason to me is the primary motivator when considering how to tackle problems, social or otherwise. I continue to passionately believe in the promise of using reason, science and technology to better California and the world. After all, the standard of living has been going up around the globe because of a singular factor: more people have access to new science and technology than ever before. Nothing moves the world forward like innovation does.
Yet, in the political climate of 2018, few things seem more at risk as innovation. A conservative, religious government stands to overwhelm California with worries about radical tech and science, such as implementing Federal regulation that stifles artificial intelligence, driverless cars, stem cells, drones, and genetic editing.
Sadly, the same could be said of immigration, women’s rights, and environmental issues. Then there’s America’s move towards expanding its already overly expensive military, which you and I pay for out of our pockets so that generals can fight far-off wars. America can do better than this. California can do better than this.
And we must. After all, the world is changing—and changing quite dramatically. Even libertarians like me face the real possibility that capitalism and job competition—which we always advocated for—won’t survive into the next few decades because of widespread automation and the proliferation of robot workers. Then there’s the burgeoning dilemma of cyber security and unwanted tracking of the technology that citizens use. And what of augmenting intelligence via genetic editing—something the Chinese are leading the charge on, but most Americans seem too afraid to try? In short, what can be done to ensure the best future?
Much can be done. And I believe it can all be done best via a libertarian framework, which is precisely why I am declaring my run for 2018 California governor. We need leadership that is willing to use radical science, technology, and innovation—what California is famous for—to benefit us all. We need someone with the nerve to risk the tremendous possibilities to save the environment through bioengineering, to end cancer by seeking a vaccine or a gene-editing solution for it, to embrace startups that will take California from the world’s 7th largest economy to maybe even the largest economy—bigger than the rest of America altogether. And believe me when I say this is possible: artificial intelligence and genetic editing will become some of the first multi-trillion dollar businesses in the near future.
We can do this, California, and it doesn’t have to be through stale blue or red political parties, which have left many of us aghast at the current world. It can be done through the libertarian philosophy of embracing all that is the most inventive and unbridled in us—and letting that pave the way forward. A challenging future awaits us, but we can meet it head on and lead the way not just for California and America, but for all of humanity.
Zoltan Istvan dicsussed the Future of Basic Income via his Federal Land Dividend
Improving HealthCare dramatically with insurance companies giving health free monitoring devices to customers and opening a public database of health records. This public database will be used by health care companies who will use the data with artificial intelligence to better predict patients health futures.
Also I will mandate that every single health care insurer provides a free IOT (internet of things) health monitoring medical device to patients. The patient can choose a device from a assortment of options and these devices will provide real time data to the doctor and to the patient themselves. This will cut health care costs dramatically as the patients will now be able to actively monitor their health much better from anywhere while also having a faster more streamlined connection with their doctor and digital records.
Health care has several inefficiencies that can be improved which will lower costs and provide better care for the people of California. The first thing I will do is mandate that the government releases health care data of willing Medicare and Medical patients into a public database so that California health insurers who use artificial intelligence can use the data to predict health situations of new patients much better. The public database will be open to anyone willing to donate their health data. This will lower costs as a whole and will save billions through preventive measures. Also I will mandate that every single health care insurer provides a free IOT (internet of things) health monitoring medical device to patients. The patient can choose a device from a assortment of options and these devices will provide real time data to the doctor and to the patient themselves. This will cut health care costs dramatically as the patients will now be able to actively monitor their health much better from anywhere while also having a faster more streamlined connection with their doctor and digital records.
Board of Regents being appointed by the students intead of the Governor. This will prevent corruption and encourage massive representation and transperancy.
Board of Regret (Regents): The governor of California should no longer have the power to appoint the 18 regents for the nine UC campuses. The members of the Board of Regents will be elected by the students of the UCs. This will make the Board more accountable, transparent and representative of the UC students and campuses they reside over. This will fix disturbing issues like Janet Napolitano, the president of the UC system, hiding $175 million last April from students, the board mishandling funds and regents being financially corrupt.
Digitalized and centralized profiles of all california office holders that shows their previous financial transactions and their progress towards their platforms they advocated for during election season.
GovBook: All office holders in California will have a transparent digital profile on the governor’s website. This will show their economic interactions for the past 10 years with regard to money and donations they have received from any sources, including the people who control them and investments they currently have. It will also include the platforms they advocated for during their election cycle and will comment on their progress toward completing them. This will keep all of them accountable with their decisions, corruption and ineffectiveness and give the people of California a much better idea of whom they are being represented by.
Youngest candidate, Shubham Goel, describes his previous experience and why that will help him fix the state for all people.
Shubham Goel's platform, Board of Regret, where he states that the board of regents will be appointed by the students of the UC's instead of the governor. The board holds so much power over the UC's so this will be great for accountability, and transparency for the students.
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Meet Delaine in this one minute video and hear why she is running to be California's next governor!
A clip from a debate where Delaine states her position that we must reduce prescription drug prices (Delaine takes no money from any corporations, including drug companies)
This video shows my fellow candidates supporting my policy ideas.
Why we support Delaine Eastin as California's leader.
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Josh's platform is based on two principles: maximize equality of opportunity, and minimize harm.
We will take no money from corporations.
Josh has made a special pledge to take absolutely no coal, oil, or fracking money.
Corporate-free and people powered.
I have spent my life advocating for the California Dream. Whether as a union organizer or as an elected official, I have worked tirelessly to open the doors of opportunity, fighting for fairness and justice. I was a community organizer and/or labor leader for twenty-five years prior to getting elected to office in 1994. I worked as an investigator at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (U.S. EEOC). I was also a steward, chief steward and president of AFGE, the union of record at the U.S. EEOC. From 1986-1987, I was an organizer/field representative with SEIU 1000. Later, I was a field representative/organizer with UTLA and a member of the staff union as well.
I am a progressive. I was an early supporter of marriage equality, years before it was championed by other Democrats. When others were silent or absent, I helped lead the fight against bigoted attacks like Prop. 187 and 209. As Speaker of the California State Assembly, I wrote one of the nation’s toughest assault weapon bans.
I am proud of my record of accomplishment and believe it distinguishes me from my opponents. While in the Assembly, I authored the Healthy Families bill, which provided health care to 750,000 children. I fought for class-size reduction and authored a $9 billion bond for school building and repair. I joint-authored the prevailing wage bill, which ensured that workers are paid a fair wage with adequate benefits. I fought for AB 60 to restore daily overtime pay for people who work more than eight hours a day.
While I served as Mayor, we doubled the number of high-performing schools and graduation rates went from 44% to 72%. We expanded the public transit system and, with Measure R, raised $40 billion for transportation projects, including new rail and bus lines. Los Angeles was the first big city to set a goal to become independent of coal by 2025 and during my tenure, we reduced overall greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 30 percent.
I have experience serving in both executive and legislative leadership roles. It is without question that serving as the mayor of the country’s second largest city has uniquely prepared me for the role of governor of the world’s sixth largest economy. Coupled with the experience of serving as the Assembly Speaker, working with legislative leaders and understanding the legislative process, my experience makes me exceptionally qualified to best serve as Governor. Throughout my career, I have earned a reputation for hearing all sides, making tough decisions and letting my colleagues, constituents and all stakeholders know why I made these decisions. Everyone might not always like it when I take a stand, but they will always know where I stand.
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I am a progressive who believes in marriage equality, reproductive rights and protecting our environment. I also believe in gun control, abolishing the death penalty and three strikes. All of these are issues I have led on for decades. I fought to have same sex marriage included in the DNC platform when I was chair. I joined the legislature’s LGBT caucus the day it was formed by my friend and colleague Sheila Kuehl. I led rallies against Prop 8 and recorded Spanish language ads to oppose it. I did the same when anti-choice advocates pushed parental notification measures on our state ballot. In the legislature I authored the nation’s toughest assault weapons ban and lent my name to campaigns to end the death penalty and reform three strikes.
But I am also a progressive because I believe that we must close the widening gap of income inequality and lift more families into the middle class. We live in a progressive state, and we talk a lot about how we need to defend our progressive values and principles, but we must also take stock of how well we are actually doing to make economic progress a reality for the millions of Californians who have been left out or left behind. We can’t be truly progressive as a state unless we are actually making progress for everyone. Progressive isn’t a press release. Progressive isn’t being on all sides of the same issue. Progressive needs to be a consistent and successful focus on closing the gap between rich and poor by lifting more Californians into the middle class and keeping them there.
What Should We Do Next to Protect Our Immigrant Communities
For years now there has been a steady and unrelenting attack on immigrants and immigrant communities. Some of those attacks began in California beginning with the passage of Proposition 187 in 1994 which targeted undocumented persons. Fortunately, the judicial system prevented the more draconian parts of Prop. 187 from ever taking effect. Even more importantly, California has in recent years been the leader in enacting provisions protecting immigrants. California is home to almost two million undocumented persons and they are a vital part of our social and economic fabric.
Whether it was passing drivers licenses for undocumented persons, or ensuring in-state tuition for undocumented college students, Californians have sought to balance the reality of the overwhelming majority of undocumented persons who are simply working and providing for their families in our state with the need to remove persons who are serious criminal offenders. The constant vilification of immigrants as criminals and leeches on society has not succeeded in California as witnessed by the implementation in 2014 of the Trust Act which limited severely the holding of undocumented persons by state or city law enforcement for the sole purpose of allowing ICE agents to remove and deport those individuals. Making exceptions for serious felony and violent convictions the California legislature drew a line regarding cooperation with federal immigration enforcement officials. Moreover, California recently enacted a program to provide health insurance for undocumented children, with California legislators and voters making clear that they understand that immigrants are a vital and essential part of California’s economy and society.
With the election of President Trump, immigrants and California communities have come to find themselves in the cross-hairs of evermore intense attacks. Within weeks of the election of Donald Trump, California legislators sought ways to protect immigrants and families. That effort resulted in SB54 signed into law in October 2017. Building on the Trust Act, SB54:
Over the last months, ICE has stepped up enforcement in communities across the state, including efforts to arrest people in government buildings such as courthouses and conducting raids in cities deemed friendly to immigrants. The US Department of Justice has also sued the state of California, arguing that efforts to protect undocumented persons and immigrants is contrary to federal law. Local and county officials in cities like Los Alamitos and San Diego are contemplating joining the DOJ lawsuit, as some Californians share Trump’s panic regarding immigrants. Further, the Trump Administration has now decided to ask a citizenship question as part of the 2020 census, the purpose of which is to cause fear and reduce the response rate of immigrants and their families. Finally, the Trump Administration is now proposing to make it harder for lawful legal permanent residents and US citizen children to receive health and nutrition benefits for fear that receiving such benefits will prevent undocumented parents or family members from ever legalizing their immigration status.
In the months and years ahead, we must continue to find to ways to protect immigrants, families and our communities, as we wait for our nation’s leadership to fix finally our broken immigration system.
First, we must continue to increase the availability of legal counsel for all who are detained by immigration authorities. We should look to developing and supporting county level legal resource centers to coordinate and train both public and private, including non-profit agencies to provide legal counsel.
Second, as the Trump administration steps up and increases detention of those accused of violating immigration laws, we need to use all of our state’s powers to limit the expansion of detention centers and ensure the basic human rights of those detained. The state’s efforts to ensure compliance with human and civil rights resulted in the enactment of AB103 in June 2017, which authorized the state’s attorney general to monitor detention centers under federal contract. Stories continue to emerge of serious health and safety issues in various detention centers, especially those operated by private contractors and we must continue to work to ensure basic human and civil rights.
Third, we should also explore all legal avenues for ensuring that California speaks with one voice as it faces the virulent anti-immigrant policies of the Trump Administration. Our representative government debated long and hard over the last two decades on policies to protect immigrants. If elected officials and citizens disagree with the policy choices made in Sacramento, the way to change such policies is through elections, not to pick and choose which laws they will accept.
Finally, we must also do everything possible to reduce the fear and anxiety caused by the Trump administration by protecting the privacy of immigrants and their families. We need to ensure all data and information collected by social safety net programs and other governmental programs are firmly and securely protected from discovery by federal immigration agencies, whether a family applies for CalFresh or Medicaid tomorrow or answers the census in two years—the only walls we should build are those that protect immigrants and their families.
California must continue to demonstrate the moral leadership required of this moment. Our country’s history shows that even in the darkest times, whether it was the round-up of Japanese-Americans for internment during WWII or during the McCarthy era when witch hunts for Communists caused many people to lose their jobs and careers, there were always some Americans who stood strong and fought to protect our core American values of justice and fairness. They understood that what was being proposed was wrong and contrary to the very essence of America’s values.
This moment is our generation’s call for moral courage. All of us are required to choose what side we will stand –not just elected officials, but regular citizens. Whether they take care of our children or our parents, clean our houses or offices, pick our fruits and vegetables or contribute in countless ways to California’s vibrant culture, society and economy, I ask you to join me and stand on the side of those who are our neighbors and part of our communities.
BACKGROUND
ROLE OF STATES AND CITIES IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
Until 2002 it was well-settled law that the federal government had exclusive and full authority to enforce federal immigration law. Before then there were at least three opinions written by the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) which held that state and local law enforcement agencies lacked authority to enforce civil federal immigration laws. In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, then Attorney General John Ashcroft began a process of re-examining those opinions and in 2002, OLC issued a secret opinion which reversed its prior opinions. DOJ/OLC concluded in the summer of 2002 that state and local police have “inherent” authority to enforce the civil provisions of federal immigration law. [2]
Our current debate over how much and under what circumstances state and local law enforcement agencies should cooperate with federal immigration agencies derives directly from that OLC policy pronouncement and the expansion of 287(g). In a very real sense, the confusion and tensions currently swirling around “sanctuary” cities and states arise from the monkey wrench that General Ashcroft threw into previously clear and defined roles.
To remind all, local and state law enforcement agencies have as their foremost and primary duty to keep the public safe from criminal actors and activity. As numerous law enforcement officials have argued since 2002, requesting or requiring local and state police to enforce immigration laws complicates their ability to do their primary job. Without the trust of the community, local police and sheriffs have a more difficult time identifying and arresting criminal actors, and are less able to respond to the needs of the community.
With 287(g) agreements between DHS and 76 state/local agencies in 20 in states as well as the broad “inherent” authority of state/local law enforcement agencies to enforce immigration law determined by the OLC opinion, it is no wonder that immigrant communities are terrified. The stepped up immigration enforcement under the Trump Administration has caused tremendous fear and anxiety in immigrant communities throughout our country. With California as home to almost 2 million undocumented persons, the fear and terror permeates communities large and small throughout our state.
One other key fact is the increased detention of undocumented persons. Trump has called for more detention and curtailing the so-called “catch and release” process of releasing immigrants after arrest for immigration violations.[3] Trump announced in October 2017 plans to increase immigration detention by requesting private companies to make proposals for the housing of adult immigrant detainees. Trump previously indicated that he wanted to detain and deport over 2 million undocumented persons. Moreover, Congress has mandated that ICE detain at least 34,000 people per day and in 2018, ICE wanted sufficient budget resources to detain 44,000 people per day.
Even before these announcements, questions were being raised regarding the conditions of those detained by ICE, by state and local jails under contract with ICE as well as private prisons.[4] The focus on illegal immigration has led to massive numbers of people in detention. In the mid-90’s, less than 7,000 were held by immigration authorities on a daily basis. Steadily increasing in the last 15 years, in fiscal year 2017, ICE detained an average of about 40,000 per day. Trump’s budget request for 2018 wanted to increase that number to over 51,000. This is happening at a time when border apprehensions along the southern border was 24% lower in 2017 than in 2016. Immigrants, many of whom have been in the country for over ten years, are now the focus of interior enforcement. Moreover, in the first three quarters of 2017, almost a third of those detained by ICE did not have criminal backgrounds.
Apart from deep concerns regarding health and safety in detention centers, especially those operated by private companies, the privatization of immigration detention means profit for some at the expense of the human rights of many.
Historically, in determining eligibility for legal permanent residency (“LPR”), the government has not considered use of Medicaid, CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program), or other non-cash benefits. In 1999, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now part of DHS) issued guidance to clarify to specify that cash assistance or government funded long-term care could be considered in making the public charge determination, which can be a bar to obtaining legal immigrant status. The Trump Administration, however, has now proposed a rule to broaden the scope of the “public charge” bar: those lawfully present immigrants seeking to obtain LPR status or those seeking to immigrate lawfully into the USA would be barred from obtaining legal residency if they or their US born children utilized food stamps, Medicaid, CHIPS or WIC (Women, Infant and Children Nutrition Program).
This proposed rule which is under consideration by the Trump Administration suffers the same weaknesses that led to the 1999 clarifying guidance. The rule would increase confusion about public charge policies, “deter[ing] eligible aliens and their families, including U.S. citizen children, from seeking important health and nutrition benefits that they are legally entitled to receive. This reluctance to access benefits has an adverse impact not just on the potential recipients, but on public health and the general welfare.”[5]
Lastly, the Trump Administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census will increase anxiety and fear in immigrant communities. An undercount is almost guaranteed which will have severe impacts on the allocation of resources such as Medicaid, food stamps and other programs where allocations are based on population size, when so many of our families are of mixed status.
I HAVE LIVED IN CALIFORNIA FOR 50 YEARS AND AT MY AGE OF 92 HAVE THE BENEFIT OF SERVING MY COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY AS A MARINE CORPS MACHINE GUNNER OF 3 WARS, CONTRACTED MALARIA ON GUADALCANAL, CITY COUNCILMAN AND VICE-MAYOR, DETECTIVE, POLICE OFFICER, OWNER OF 10 RENTALS AND 2 RANCHES AND SPENT 50 YEARS AS AN EDUCATOR HOLDING 3 UNIVERSITY DEGREES. I AM 2ND AMENDMENT POSITIVE, AND AS A DETERRENT TO CRIMINALS WILL FIGHT FOR ALL PERSONS VETTED BY THE F.B.I. AND NOT DRINKING TO CARRY LOADED GUNS, AM PRO-WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND WILL DO AWAY WITH ALL BRAIN DESTRUCTIVE DRUGS. CALIFORNIA AND AMERICA ARE IN A WAR WITH CRIMINALS WHO KILL OUR CHILDREN WITH IMPUNITY. I WILL FIGHT TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN FROM HARM AND USING MY MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE CONTINUE TO MAKE CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN STATE AND NOT ALL0W IT TO TURN INTO A DRUG CARTELS STATE.
I HAVE NEVER BROUGHT DISHONOR UPON MY NAME AND I DO NOT ASK FOR YOUR MONEY ONLY THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR ME.....USING MY MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND DEVOTION TO DUTY TO BE YOUR.....PUBLIC SERVANT AND PROTECTOR. PLEASE ELECT ALBERT MEZZETTI FOR BEST RESULTS.
"Neutrinos through me go,
My ego is my own amigo."
A significant part of this campaign is performed in verse; inspired by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), Snow tha Product, Les Miserables, and viewers like you.
If there were ever time for a play, this is that time.
I have puppets, a resonator guitar, and a burning desire for giving the voters of California a reason to look up. Next year is the 50th in the lunar era, and growing numbers of voters believe we never went to the moon at all, or that the earth is flat.
Let California lead the world back to our rightful place in the cosmos, as participants in exploration and pioneers into the future of mining and deflecting asteroids.
Meteor Theory is the general idea that meteors are responsible for major events in the course of human civilization, notably in 2800 bc and 540 ad.
By understanding the damage and worldwide effects of an impact, we can pass on working, useful knowledge and survival stories to future humans as language evolves away from our ability to warn them.
Not if, but when arsenic rains into the freshwater supply, bread fails, and the stars disappear by atmospheric detritis, and our entire green energy grid is disabled, California might be able to mitigate the damage, having recognized before others that we are a human system with limited funds on a ball of rock floating in space.
The last words on the moon,
An irish woman singing about the northern lights,
and a call to action for milllenials and their successors; the "lucky ones"
A rhapsody of guitar and verse that follows three settings: a classroom, a whaling boat, and high density human habitation.
apologies to StarTalk for pulling a sample of Bill Maher mocking my profession. Thank you for backing me up though, I assure you this one has teeth.
Taliesin was killed by a Klansman last year in Portland oregon.
All money spent on ego driven politics is waste and could be put to better use. What good is your victory if it was bought and an animal shelter couldn't make rent?
Gavin is widely recognized for his bold willingness to lead – repeatedly developing, advocating, and implementing innovative and groundbreaking solutions to some of our most challenging issues.
On a wide range of topics including same-sex marriage, gun safety, marijuana, the death penalty, universal health care, access to preschool, paid family leave, technology, criminal justice reform, sugary drinks, and the minimum wage, Gavin stuck his neck out and did the right thing, which often led to sweeping changes when his policies were ultimately accepted, embraced, and replicated across the state and nation.
Gavin’s top priorities are economic development (creating jobs and reducing poverty), education (increasing affordable access to quality schools at all levels), protecting the environment, and justice – ensuring California continues to lead by example while actively resisting any attempt by the Trump administration to take us backwards.
Gavin is married to Jennifer Siebel Newsom. They reside in Marin County with their four children Montana, Hunter, Brooklynn, and Dutch.
The son of William and Tessa, Gavin grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Santa Clara University on a partial baseball scholarship, graduating in 1989 with a B.A. in political science.
After college, Gavin sold orthotics and worked as an assistant at a real estate firm. In 1991, Gavin recruited investors and founded PlumpJack, a wine shop, which he grew into a thriving enterprise of 21 businesses including wineries, restaurants, and hotels.
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Klement Tinaj is 28-years old and lives in Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Tinaj received his Masters Degree in 2015 and now he is running for Governor of Califorina (D). As a CEO, Mr. Tinaj knows first hand that we need to invest in jobs and the economy. We must stop pushing away small bussinesses who employ more than 50% of our local residents. Higher taxes and too many regulations are destroying our economy and pushing our working class people out of the state.
As a School owner, Mr. Tinaj knows that giving tax breaks to the wealthy forces us to cut afterschool programs, early childhood education programs, social security and job training. As the governor, Mr. Tinaj is commited to investing in public education including early childhood education, K-12, Special Education and Free-Four Year Community College. As an Educator, Mr. Tinaj knows that California needs at least 1.1 million educated workers by 2030 to keep our economy moving forward.
Mr. Tinaj is a bright new leader with the vision and powerful voice who is willing to fight for single payer, affordable housing, 100% Renewable Energy, Cut Taxes, Reform Justice, Fix our education, balance the budgets and save for the future. For more information please check out his "Ten-Point Action Plan" on his website: www.KlementTinajForGovernor.com.
His goal is to inspire the young, give hope to the working class and a voice to the voiceless. Mr. Tinaj quoted "I want my students to look at me and be like, if my teacher can do it, I can do it. I will bring back the benefits and healthcare programs to the eldery and our veterans. I will veto any tax increase that will come across my desk and invest in jobs and our economy. I will help people out of poverty, invest in the working class and help small bussinesses survive. To my classmates and other college students who are leaving Califorina or who are struggling to pay for thier college, here is my message to you. As your next governor I will make all 114 community colleges free so you and your friends can sit in your dorm room and follow the same steps of the man who started facebook from his Harvard dorm room. For those students who are one step away from being homeless, facing poverty or can't afford to live on campus becasue of the skyrocketing tuitions and you live in your parents house. You can follow the same steps of those two college students who started the greatest computer firm from their parents garage behind thier house".
"As your governor I pledge to fight for your future, libery, justice and equal opportuity for all. It's time to act now to build a better tomorrow. "
Tinaj released his "Ten-Point Action Plan" coverning the issuess that matters the most to our communities:
AN ACTION PLAN THAT MATTERS TO OUR GENERATION THE MOST:
1. STATE WIDE RENT CONTROL & AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Repeal Costa Hawkins Rental Act & Ellis Act.
Invest in Affordable Housing Development.
Invest in permanent housing, emergency shelters and supportive services for the homeless.
2. HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
-Pass Single Payer and stop people from filing bankruptcy, losing their homes, losing their business, and spending their retirement money to get healthcare because their insurance refuses an ultrasound and the insurance cancels.
-Stops discrimination based on your age or current health status.
-Ensure health care that is affordable for every Californian.
3. WATER TECHNOLOGY
-Maintain our service and underground water.
-Maintain our water supplies, recycling supplies, reservoirs and completing the state water project.
-Invest in Water Technology because wasted water from our leaky pipes is skyrocketing our economy.
4. REFORM THE TAX SYSTEM
-We pay the highest taxes in the nation, gas tax 12%, rate on the personal income 13.1%,
minimum combined sales tax 7.5%.
-To keep business, homeowners and college graduates in California we need tax reform
including proposition 13.
5. REFORM THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
-Invest in Early Childhood Education.
-Invest in Public Schools and Special Education.
-Hold Charter Schools Accountable to meet States Standards.
-Free-Four Year Community College.
6. JUSTICE REFORM
-A Fair Social, Economic and Criminal Justice for all.
-Stop “additional and considerable” threats to law enforcement.
-Proper training for law enforcement.
-Stop the war between poverty and racial justice.
-Reform Prop. 47, Prop. 57, and AB 109 to stop human trafficking, rapes, murders, repeat
offenders and other violent crimes in our communities.
7. TRANSPORTATION
-Traffic, poor roads, and car repairs are taking time from your work, friends & family.
-Invest in public transportation including: transits, railroads and 564 brides.
-Build quality and affordable transportation for all.
-Expanding our roads and highways.
8. 100% CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY
-Clean environment, clean air, clean water & clean power.
-Build new industries to fight global warming and pollution.
-Make California the most energy-independent state by protecting our natural resources
and building sustainable, safe and caring communities in all 58 counties of California.
-To protect our water, air, health and climate we must STOP turning our forest acres into
industrial zones. We must STOP fracking our future.
9. JOBS & ECONOMY
-We must STOP chasing jobs and small businesses away.
-We must reform our current taxes and regulations to keep jobs and workers.
-We must invest in Energy – (solar, wind and renewable energy) creates more jobs, makes our nation’s power supplies more secure, and also reduces our dependence on dirty fossil fuels.
-We must invest in Water Technology – creates more jobs and puts a long-overdue stopper in our wasteful water systems.
-We must invest in Public Transit – creates more construction jobs, solves the traffic
problem and helps people get to work on time with fewer costs.
-We must invest in Agriculture Industries who employees hundreds of thousands of people, by investing in water technology because leaky pipes and poor agriculture irrigation is not the bright future for our agriculture industries.
-Invest in small businesses, who employees about 50% of the state private work force.
-Invest in more education and health care facilities, to build on a work force educated by quality employment, educational and economic opportunities.
-Invest in growing the economy, creating jobs for the working class and raise the living
standards for all.
-I believe in public investment that grows the economy for a long run and not short-term programs.
10. BUDGET
-Stop late and unbalanced budgets.
-Stop useless spending.
-Pay Back our Debt $443 Billion ($218B in retirement | $126B in bond | $64B in
infrastruction | $22B in deferred payments | $6.8B federal unemployment fund | $4.1B in “inter fund”).
-Keep track of the budget, keep our checkbooks balanced and save for the future.
Gloria La Riva is a labor, community and anti-war activist based in San Francisco, California. Born in Albuquerque, N.M., Gloria attended Brandeis University where she was active in affirmative action struggles.
Gloria has been a key organizer of many mass demonstrations and other actions opposing U.S. wars and occupation in Central America, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, South Korea, Libya, Syria, Niger, and elsewhere.
Gloria has worked for decades to defend Cuba’s sovereignty and against the U.S. blockade. She was awarded Cuba’s Friendship Medal in 2010, approved by the Council of State, for her many years of Cuba solidarity, and is the national coordinator of the Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee.
Gloria has traveled to Venezuela many times since the election of Hugo Chávez to president in 1998, most recently in March 2018. She has engaged in discussions with leading members of the Bolivarian Revolution, including the late president, as well as current President Nicolás Maduro.
Gloria has been active in the struggle for immigrant rights, organizing for and speaking at many mass marches in California over the past 30 years. In the early 1990's, she was the initiator of the Farmworkers Emergency Relief campaign, following a disastrous freeze that left tens of thousands of Central Valley agricultural workers with no income.
Gloria organized support for the Black Fire Fighters Association in their struggle to end racist and sexist discrimination in the San Francisco Fire Department in the 1980's.
A longtime supporter of LGBTQ rights, Gloria participated in the first National March for Lesbian and Gay rights in 1979 and subsequent national marches. She joined in the marches and rallies protesting the passage of the anti-marriage equality Prop 8 in California. She has joined picket lines defending women’s reproductive health clinics.
In 1998 Gloria produced the award-winning video, Genocide by Sanctions: The Case of Iraq, documenting the effects of the U.S./UN blockade on Iraq. In 1999, she traveled twice to Yugoslavia with former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark, at the height of the U.S./NATO bombing war, producing the video, NATO Targets. In September 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina, Gloria traveled to New Orleans, producing the video Heroes Not Looters. In 2014, she traveled to Ferguson during the uprising there in the wake of the police murder of Michael Brown.
Gloria is a contributor for LiberationNews.org, where she has written extensively on Latin America and many other issues.
