Issues

If elected, I will work on the following policies to help fix the state.

Make California a better place to do business:

• Create a “South Bay State Enterprise Zone” to attract thousands of high paying jobs to our region

• Create pathways to fast track “like for like replacement” of development projects – creating jobs and reducing project costs

• Bring back the state new homebuyer’s tax credit to increase new home sales and create jobs.

• Simplify the paperwork required to start new businesses and eliminate the license fee for forming your own business.

• Expand credit for California Businesses: create a tax credit for California Community Banks that finance California projects.

• Exempt manufacturing and capital equipment from sales tax- like 47 other states do – to encourage job creation.

• Reform our employment laws to give businesses more flexibility and reduce the cost of workman’s compensation and other benefits to encourage more hiring.

• Differentiate between capital gains and regular income to better reward “sweat equity” and give people more reasons to stay in California.

Keep our neighborhoods safe:

• Oppose “realignment” measures that are unloading thousands of dangerous criminals from state prisons to county jails

• Support measures to protect funding for public safety and keep police and firefighters on the streets

• Support measures to reform our prison system to rehabilitate first time offenders before they become hardened career criminals, while insuring the most dangerous prisoners stay behind bars for their full sentences

Get our state’s out-of-control spending, under control:

• Work to consolidate or eliminate many of our over 4800 state agencies to cut the budget and reduce overlapping regulatory jurisdictions.

• Apply caps on spending growth like many other states have– limiting it to population growth plus inflation or economic growth.

• Apply a means test to all regulations on the books and eliminate those that are too expensive to enforce.

• Work to repeal some of the hundreds of unfunded mandates from the state that are costing local cities hundreds of millions to comply with. Work  to put in place a moratorium on new unfunded mandates.

Fight for taxpayers:

Reform our Pension System:

• Support legislation to enable local municipalities more flexibility in addressing their pension liabilities.

• Work to curb pension abuses such as “double dipping”, “spiking”, and disability retirement abuse that are unsustainable and jeopardizes the integrity of the entire system-  and cost the public billions of dollars.

Eliminate the “one size fits all” model for education in this state:

• Empower teachers to teach by reducing the complexity of state standards and returning curriculum and disciplinary control back to local administrators and teachers. In the process, reduce state administrative spending and send the savings back into the classroom.

• Simplify the funding system for schools– reduce the number of buckets money is dispensed from the state to local school districts from 80+ to less than 5, thereby eliminating bureaucratic overhead and giving school boards the flexibility to spend money how they see best.

• Reform the Individual Expenditure Plan (IEP) system for special education to standardize it and help small school districts better shoulder the costs of special needs students.

• Work to reduce excessive standardized testing which is eating valuable class time. Reduce box checking and circle bubbling to give back instruction time to teachers.

Work to improve the quality of health care in California:

• Protect MICRA and other lawsuit protections that doctors depend on to stay in business

•  Enact measures to encourage more students to seek medicine as a profession, particularly primary care physicians

•  Remove barriers to protecting the most important relationship in health care: that between a doctor and patient

Work to address our border security problems:

• Ensure that the CA Border Patrol has the funding and tools they need to seal our border.

• Work on ways to protect our shores from criminals landing on our beaches illegally.