That’s why he supports regulatory streamlining to make it easier for the private sector to produce these housing units, and will work with our corporate partners to create workforce housing serving middle-class families and moderate income households. Unlike U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, we will attract teachers, not attack teachers. Our state faces an acute teaching shortage, particularly in special education, bilingual education and STEM.
- Faulconer also supported eliminating taxes on all retirement income veterans received from the U.S.
- Newsom began his political career in 1996, when San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed him to serve on the city’s Parking and Traffic Commission.
- According to The Hill, more than 86 percent of California voters used mail-in ballots in the 2020 general election.
- I’ve been through many elections and I’m thankful that I’ve had volunteers reviewing ballots, monitoring county procedures, to ensure that the ballots counted in my races met all legal requirements.
- A true commitment to equity would involve looking to what has worked in other states to reduce achievement gaps and propel student achievement.
- That’s right, our state government has dedicated more than 21.2 million words to regulating our families, our businesses and our lives.
I will stop prison releases and closures, and reduce homelessness by addressing root cause issues. My “Spend Smarter” plan will use data to base local funding on progress, increase mental health and substance abuse support, and ensure the homeless are legally bound to use available housing options. I have spent the last four decades working in the private sector, and spent two of those four also representing my constituents in public office at the same time.
Some new roads may be built in partnership with private companies as toll roads, allowing private businesses to invest in roads themselves and share toll revenues with the state. Currently, the State of California builds just 80,000 new units per year. However, via California Emergency Powers under my administration, we will build 500,000 new housing units per year for 5 years.
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The field of candidates currently challenging Newsom includes Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, a conservative, seasoned politician from Northern California, and independent candidate Michael Shellenberger, a longtime activist on energy and homelessness issues. Dahle has never run for statewide office and Shellenberger, who supported Newsom’s recall, ran for governor in 2018 as a Democrat and was backed by less than 1% of California voters. From 2003 to 2019, Ballotpedia tracked 57 gubernatorial recall efforts against 15 governors.
Following the recall election, Davis was replaced tintin en kangoo by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, who beat out the 134 other candidates listed on that year’s recall ballot, garnering more than 48 percent of the total votes cast. In any given year, one in four families in California deal with a mental health condition. Across the state, 134,000 people are living on the streets, a third of them suffering with progressed stages of mental illness. One-third of the people living behind bars also deal with a brain illness, making our jails de facto asylums. As Governor, Gavin will pursue an aggressive agenda to lift California’s approach to mental healthcare into a national model. His administration will work with top public policy and research groups to review our state’s delivery system and draw on best practices across the globe to create a more effective leadership structure.
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Ballotpedia is not aware of any personal political advocacy by this officeholder related to ballot measures we track. Undoubtedly, some redevelopment agencies were plagued with corruption, and eliminating them helped bring the state budget back into balance, but it’s incumbent upon the next Governor to get creative about how we plug that hole. Cities across California are turning to Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts, allowing them to partner with counties and public agencies to funnel resources to critical infrastructure projects like housing. As Governor, Gavin will eliminate barriers to entry in order to scale these districts statewide. The extreme fires that ripped across the state this year upended lives and cost California billions of dollars.
We must do more to ensure that women are treated equally across industries, and we need everyone, not just women, to speak out and continue to challenge the culture that has allowed, enabled and encouraged this behavior. Everyday, Gavin seeks to be a model – not just for his two daughters – but also for his two sons. There is a crisis of toxic masculinity among our men and boys in this country, and we must tackle it head on. As Governor, he will institute accountability measures across state government, and support strengthening workplace protections such as creating hotlines for victims, transparent, independent, swift investigations, and real consequences for abusers and harassers.
This starts with eliminating perks like the secret DMV office, so lawmakers have to feel the effects of their own policy decisions. It means rooting out the many undemocratic practices at our Capitol, like the denial of public access or rules where a bill can be killed without a vote so that legislators can claim they didn’t oppose it. Changing this dynamic can be difficult to do through campaign finance laws, but it is achievable through a cultural change at the Capitol.
Had she held onto that post, she would have been the first woman to ever chair the Senate Judiciary Committee. But after discussions with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Feinstein instead agreed to step aside from the powerful post, paving the way for the ascension of Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois to the chairmanship. “We’re very good friends. I don’t think he meant it the way some people thought,” Feinstein said when asked about the governor’s comments.
Second, we will establish 500,000 apprenticeships by 2029, creating a new vocational pipeline of high-skill workers. Apprenticeships provide the education and training necessary to prepare Californians for the jobs of today and tomorrow in an increasingly global world. We will expand both earn-and-learn apprenticeships and successful labor-management programs, both of which expand opportunity for Californians in growing sectors like advanced manufacturing, energy, health, information technology and hospitality. We will never win the race to the bottom on tax incentives, but we can win the race on talent incentives by building on our world class human capital.