A couple weeks ago, I came home and my wife, Silvia, said something I almost couldn’t believe.
She looked at me and she said, “I think our state needs you.” Because she believed I could help our kids. Help San José. And help California.
And if you know anything about Silvia — when she talks, you listen.
So I’m running for Governor of California — because we can do better.
I know we can, because we’re proving it in San Jose.
We’ve reduced unsheltered homelessness by nearly 1/3rd after a decade of growth. We were rated the safest big city in America last year for the first time in over 20 years. We’re the only city to have solved 100% of homicides nearly 4 years running. And we’re taking on affordability with urgency and honesty — unlocking thousands of housing units in the past couple years.
We need to stand up for our rights, for our freedoms and for our neighbors. We need to use the tools we have at hand to protect our democracy.
One tool is the law. The other tool is our results. We have to use both.
That’s how we fix California.
We don’t just need to be against something. We need to be for something — a government that proves it can solve problems for working people again.
And before we ask Californians to give more, we owe them proof that their government can do better.
So I’m running to bring focus back to government. To give cities the tools they need to succeed. To show that the best resistance to division is results.
And to prove that California can work again — for everyone.
That’s why I’m running.
And that’s the future Silvia and I are fighting for.
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I hear and agree with the sentiment on housing, treatment; especially when it comes together as a package. One without the other is cyclically bad news. I can’t agree on safe use and safe supply. It’s not compassionate to enable this addiction and harm reduction clearly isn’t working. Thousands of people have died on our streets under the guise of harm reduction. Fentanyl in any form isn’t ever going to be safe. No one is demonizing - we want to help. Providing more of this poison is not going to do the trick.
@KVNDRY@adampnathan If the road you’re referring to is “no more open air drug markets and reducing OD deaths,” then I like that road. Turns out people can agree on some things and disagree on other things.
@a_strider_again@adampnathan Makes sense, its sad we’ve gotten to the point where not wanting open air drug markets and dead bodies on the streets is a radical position.
@bett_yu Pretty wild to see such a contradiction in one statement. No Kings for sure, we’ve had that for 250 years, but “yes on 50” consolidates power to a small group of existing politicians and takes power away from the people.
California Pastor says voters must vote No on Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 redistricting
“There are 54 seats, right, 43 are Democrat and only 9 are Republican. What has that gotten us?”
- Number one in homelessness
- Number one in poverty
- Number one in addiction
- Number one in income tax
- Number one in gas tax
- Number one in gas prices everywhere
- Number one in budget deficit
- Number one in retail theft
- Number one in illiteracy
“Friends, it’s time to start using our heads when we vote. Look at where voting with our hearts has gotten us. I want our beloved state to be number one, but not like that. So do I vote to add more Democratic seats for no other reason than a response to what’s happening in some other state? Nah. Look at what 80% Democratic representation has gotten us. I’m voting Educate yourself, friends.”