Candidate for California State Assembly - District 19 in 2022 California General Election.
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Get StartedIncrease funding for the San Francisco Police Department, and fill the more than 400 open positions for police officers. Seek the repeal of Prop 47, the proposition that decriminalized shoplifting and theft. Seek to repeal Assembly Bill 2942 which made it easier for district attorneys to apply lesser charges against criminals or let them go entirely. Learn more
Effective policies to address addiction and drug dealing do exist. The Portuguese model, successfully putting an end to the drug crises in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Zurich, will work in San Francisco, too. Arrest, charge and seek conviction of drug dealers with the goal of protecting addicted homeless people in our city. Put addicted homeless people before the choice to enter rehab or go to jail. Learn more
Seek the repeal of Assembly Bill 3234, allowing judges to offer diversion to defendants even if the prosecutor disagrees. Seek the repeal of Prop 57, which allows earlier paroles. Learn more
Arrest, charge and seek conviction of drug dealers with the goal to protect addicted homeless people in our city. Introduce rules that prohibit releasing repeat violent offenders. Launch a crime-fighting program protecting our Asian-American neighbors. This will be a combination of more police presence and charging criminals with the aim to convict and jail them. Learn more
Seek a review and reform of the district’s finances and get expenses back in line with income. This will include a review of the top-heavy senior management positions versus the number of students in the district. Prohibit indoctrination of our kids in elementary school with socialist or other extreme left-wing ideologies, and sexual education in grades K-4 without parents’ consent. Offer school vouchers to all parents with school-age kids. Many parents see the value in sending their kids to a public school - if they do a solid job. If not, parents deserve a choice. Learn more
Find ways to improve teacher compensation state-wide. Our greatest asset in our fight to fix our schools is our teachers. They are doing a great job under very difficult conditions (especially during the Covid crisis). Their work is often underappreciated and underpaid - and they shouldn’t have to pay for school supplies out of their own pocket. Launch a comprehensive program to address learning shortfalls in underprivileged kids. Learn more
Go back to higher standards and testing for more accountability and better education. Reintroduce algebra and accelerated math classes and defend the teaching of calculus. Refund Advanced Placement. Reinstate merit-based admissions at Lowell Highschool. Learn more
Create a city wide mental healthcare system for rehabbing the serious mentally ill or addicted. Unify mental healthcare on the state level instead of on the county level for more effective treatment of serious addiction. Learn more
Create 4,000 more shelter beds in San Francisco instead of trying to build housing, which is too expensive and slow to make a difference. Learn more
Make it easier to create new living spaces by simplifying rules and accelerating approval processes. It must be easier and faster to expand one’s home, redevelop homes into multifamily housing and redevelop underused lots (parking lots, single story commercial buildings). Subsidize affordable housing. Build 4,000 additional homeless shelters. Learn more
Dissolve tent campsites. Learn more
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