Currently holds the office of California State Assembly - District 74 until December 2, 2024.
Candidate for California State Assembly - District 74 in 2024 California General Election.
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Get StartedWhile local government works hard to keep parks and other green spaces clean and safe, we have a growing problem with homeless camps and the garbage, pollution, and crime that they generate. We need to take these spaces back. Our children should be able to run around our parks without worrying about stepping in human waste or pricking themselves on a disgarded needle. Learn more
I oppose ‘Defunding the Police.’ I believe we need to do what it takes to have enough well-trained, properly equipped police in every community. At the same time we need to build trust with the police and some parts of our community: that’s why I support body cameras and diversification of our law enforcement. I also believe we need to repeal laws and ballot measures which have emboldened criminals and made the rest of us worry about when our car or home will be robbed. Learn more
We can and will do better. My solutions? Clean up the camps and garbage to keep our communities clean and safe. Dramatically increase emergency shelters with wrap around services so that we can require people sleeping in the streets to spend the night there and start getting them the help they need. At the same time we need to declare a State of Emergency in California and immediately pour resources into treatment centers for drug addiction and mental illness, and change laws that make it difficult to mandate in-person treatment. We need to enforce rules against public use of drugs. While we solve this problem, firmly but fairly, we need to make sure we have the police we need to keep our property and people safe. Learn more
I believe we must demand Sacramento do everything reasonably possible to locate and eliminate fraud, waste and mismanagement. I support ongoing, public, nonpartisan audits of every California Department. They key words here are “public” so that you can see the results and “nonpartisan” because politics shouldn’t have anything to do with this. Learn more
I strongly support improving our freeways, making our roads smooth and pothole free, and expanding public transportation and making it safer and earlier to use. Learn more
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