VOTE411 Voter Guide

My first priority is to reduce the cost-of-living by cutting taxes, utility rate surcharges, and certain regulations and exceptions that increase costs on all aspects of our lives by moving to repeal a framework of laws that systematically and substantially increases costs and fundamentally changes our freedoms.

My second priority is to reduce the divisiveness that permeates our communities and state by supporting our Constitutional right to privacy concerning one's personal and intimate decision, including one's household. Thus, I don't support private decisions at a public expense. Here, we should all be able to express our issues without our issues and our Constitution being co-opted and that our expression does not destroy the very processes and spaces that permit and enable our expression to be heard.

My third priority is the public's well-being including its safety and health. Here, we all need to feel safe and healthy in California. We all have needs in the collective sense: we need housing; we need healthcare; we need work; we need our infrastructure and government programs to work properly; we need our property secured; we need to stop predators preying on others; we need our education and extra curricular activities to be preserved; we need to respect one another. However, the issue we face is that laws enacted run contrary to our needs. An example, laws to promote and incentives housing projects limit its work to work cartels and monopolies excluding other labor pools; incorporate "VMT" (Vehicle Miles Travel) in the project as a basis to increase housing density, restrict and control movement by taxing and tracking for every mile traveled; set aside a limited percentage for low income; disregard community concerns; and increase the costs to maintain one's house by increasing utility rate surcharges through the EPIC program, a program that'll support Data Centers. In short, lawmakers are representing their political party, not Californians.

First and foremost, I'm a father and I served in the US Marine Corps and will fight with life and limb to help my children, our children have a future in California without being placed in serfdom where political parties and special interests make it their thiefdom!

I experienced both ends of the spectrum: I'm a high school dropout turned college educated; I've talked to people from the streets to people walking the halls of academia and legislation; I've been homeless to being a home owner; I've been single to being married and being father, to being divorced, to being re-married; I've been restricted to my neighborhood to visiting many other states and countries. I have had many experiences and relationships that have shaped my wisdom.

I have a MA in Sociology from the University of Michigan; BA in History and Sociology Magna cum Laude with Honors in both majors from the University of Arizona; AA in Social Science with Discretional Honors from A.W.C.; and a Certificate in Legal Writing and Research, Contracts, and Criminal Procedure from the University of Missouri at Kansas City that helps me critically analyze any bill, its history, its relationship to other bills to identify what it undergirds, its purpose, and whether it collectively serves Californians and our State.

Prior to focusing on my children and coaching youth sports, I assumed various civic positions including the President of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council, Board Member the Boyle Heights Chamber of Commerce, LA City's Community Improvement and Poverty Area 1 representative, LAPD's Hollenbeck Community Policing Advisory Board member, LANI representative, etc that helped me gain an understanding of the political process at ground zero.

Moreover, I'm an independent candidate and my loyalty and allegiance is to Californians and our Constitution, not to any political party that demands loyalty and blind obedience along party lines.

I support laws that provide affordable housing for middle and low income Californians BUT I don't support the current laws on the books for affordable housing because they're based upon supply restrictions; a bribe or quid pro quo system; doesn't take community concerns into account; and engineered in such a manner to give an appearance of meeting housing needs on the face of projects while re-engineering housing and lifestyle changes that are disingenuous. In short, California's affordable housing needs are being co-opted and manipulated by the supermajority political party currently in power, that has gone unchecked and not held accountable, since the 2010s.

Current laws don't alleviate the supply of affordable housing for middle and low income Californians. Laws privileged work cartels and monopolies increasing costs and unemployment; they limit allocation of housing to middle and low income emphasizing temporary and renter status; they restrict housing diversification by incentivizing and advancing high density housing projects and restriction of movement (i.e. limiting vehicle miles travel); and forcing it upon communities hiding behind a scheme of laws and policies (e.g. CEQA-EIR, Green policies, etc). So current laws, on the one hand, actually hide and limit the supply of affordable housing in the very laws its claim to meet the demands of affordable housing.

On the other hand, these laws also make any affordable housing unaffordable to maintain by increasing utility costs with surcharges to create programs as EPIC to surcharge us. An example, we pay a surcharge on our utilities to support EPIC. EPIC uses these surcharged fees for renewable energy. It'll incentivize Data Centers renewable thermal energy providing lower heating costs. However, these Data Centers' electrical and water consumption demands result in residential customers paying more on these utilities while these Centers track and control your movement and action with AI along with its risks.

I believe education of our youth is a public good for California within its public space. Every child in a public school should be given the opportunity to have a free lunch.

Private decisions on a personal and intimate nature should be removed from public schools' responsibilities and these rights and responsibilities should be restored with the parents and their household.

Public education needs to start educating our young people on character, conduct, and respect within and for our public spaces based upon our Constitution and courtesy towards one another.

We need to preserve the integrity and perseverance of arts, music, sports, and other extra-curricular programs that have been cut due to budgets or not offered as a result of school charters. Likewise, we need to ensure the integrity and transparency of prop 28 and its funds are used for what voters wanted. We need cost-allocation from a variety of resources to meet the needs in low income areas. So we need to facilitate more types of community involvement to support the educational needs of young, low-income Californians.

We need an honest assessment on the state of water supply and needs in our State along for what purposes are we using water and playing politics with our water.

As a water rate payer to Suburban Water Company, I'm thoroughly confused, Suburban is attempting to increase my water rate by 70% (including the last 3 years and for the next 3 years). Suburban cited a decreased in water consumption by users due to water conservation policies; infrastructural upkeep; and production fees in its recent move and justification to increase water rates. I'd surmise conservation would decrease costs and conserve water. I'd also surmise, less demand for water would reduce production costs. In addition, I'd surmise the water company has been maintaining the infrastructure upkeep all along the years but I'm just a ratepayer.

On the other hand, we need to assess for what purposes our water is being used towards other political ends. For example, Data Centers need a substantial amount for water for consumption by a machine rather than a human being and for the production that supports human life (i.e. agriculture), as opposed to re-engineering society to control us and our resources, causing us to fight over water and life.

Californians need water: water needs to be clean, affordable, and accessible for all people and for purposes that sustains our lives. I will support policies that achieve such ends while opposing others that divert from this policy to limit water supply where Californians fight each other over access to clean water.

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