Issues
Jobs
• Bringing jobs back to the Central Valley is my top legislative priority. California’s broken state government has made California hostile to business. • With a double-digit unemployment rate, we have to reward businesses that provide economic opportunity instead of taxing and regulating them out of the state. I support legislation to eliminate frivolous lawsuits that are hurting businesses and killing jobs. Sacramento should be required to report how many private sector jobs are lost with each proposed regulatory bill introduced.
Budget Crisis
• Our state is being hurt by bureaucrats without accountability. With a state budget deficit estimated at nearly $20 billion and expected to grow larger over the next year, it is critical that we reform our broken budget system.
• The budget crisis can be solved by ending the Sacramento spending spree and living within our means. I support conservative economic policies designed to restore our economy and create jobs for working families.
• We need to look at welfare reform. Individuals in this state have a right to decide how to spend their money. But that right does not include accepting entitlements without sharing responsibility. If individuals prefer to buy luxury items rather than pay for their basic needs, that preference should not be rewarded while taxpayers struggle to pay their own bills.
Water
• The Central Valley’s farmers have been forced to fallow the fields we depend on for safe food. Bad water policy that refuses to balance human suffering against environmental concerns is hurting us.• It’s time we carry the message of common sense solutions to Sacramento: water storage, infrastructure and conveyance. The alternative is a man-made economic and public health disaster: dependence on foreign food sources grown using unknown, potentially unsafe farming practices.
Taxes
• California’s tax system is unfair and hinders investment and growth. Overtaxation and regulation are crushing California’s economy and shutting the doors of small business owners. I support eliminating punitive taxation and hidden taxation in the form of “fees.”• We cannot afford the massive bureaucracy created by Sacramento, and we cannot tax ourselves into prosperity.
Conservative values
• The United States Constitution defines human rights that cannot be legislated away: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that human life is precious, and that we have a Constitutionally-protected right to defend it. I oppose the taking of human life prior to birth and support the defense of the preborn child as an individual human life.• I support the 2nd Amendment right of citizens to keep and bear arms without the intrusive hand of government. I do not support government infringement on the right of law-abiding citizens to defend ourselves and our families.
Healthcare
• Government has no business making life-and-death medical decisions for my family or yours. Healthcare reform shouldn’t put bureaucrats between you and your doctor. Real reform means improving affordability, increasing access and preserving patient choice—not expanding government control.