Containing the damage to our public education and public health systems done by recent state budget cuts is at the top of my priorities. To move our state forward, we need leaders who will hold the line on basic progressive values of fairness and opportunity, and who will fight to ensure that our people have access to the best education and health care, a strong environment, and an intact public safety system.

Recognizing that our children are our future, I’ll make sure our children have all the resources and skills they need to compete for and win jobs in the global economy, and I will support efforts to reform our state’s longtime broken health care system.

I’ll also seek to rebuild our middle class by creating new jobs and pushing our state to invest in new technologies and industries. I’ll expand alternative energy and sustainable, clean ways of living and doing business, and will unite our state’s environmental and labor constituencies behind a pro-jobs agenda to ensure that California is not left behind.

As your representative in the Assembly, I’ll work for lasting change and success by looking beyond the short-term gimmicks and political expedience of cuts-only state budgets, and will push the state to find new revenue streams, such as increased tobacco taxes, oil severance, and single-use bags, as ways through our current fiscal crisis.

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