Making California Work For You
Rob Bernosky for Lieutenant Governor
We all should be living the american dream
What Are We Going to Do to Make California Work For You
Crime
Criminals belong in jail. Who wants to worry about their cars being broken into, hit and runs, porch pirates, and other annoyances? Who wants to feel safe only when locked up in their homes?
Prop 36 passed by 68.42%. 10,307,296 people said enough is enough: make crimes a crime again. I will continue to advocate for more police to catch more criminals and for prosecutors to charge them. If we need better laws, the legistature need to do their job.
Schools need to be able to discpline again, so that children become younf adults understanding there are consequences to behavior.
Housing
The saddest statistic to me is that the average age for acquiring a home in California is 49 years old. Even couples with 2 good incomes cannot begin the path to homeownership. We need to build more inexpensive houses!
It is a very complex issue, but we need to begin chipping away at it. We can start by stopping the non-safety requirements that drive up home prices like requiring solarization, all electrivication, so on and so forth. We need to increase supply, which means we decreasing the abilities of CEQA and California Coastal Commission mandates.
Actual home ownership leads to better neighborhoods with less crime, higher quality of life, and better schools.
Schools
It is probably the most contentious issue. Some schools are fantastic. Many are not. School choice is the answer. Inter-District transfers are the vehicle.
My life is surrounded by educators and as a former school board member of different school districts, I am well aware of the power unions have, including to keep bad teachers in the system. I am also aware of the dilemma edcuators have with absentee parenting. These are the "Problems".
For those parents who are willing to sacrifice their time to get their kids to a school that has figured it out, we need to let them to do it.
Principals and other administrators who are not suffienctly working on the Problems and adequately supporting the teachers, need to go, and probably not back to the classroom.
Car Costs and Frustrations
While we all can enjoy a bicycle ride now and then, we still have to get to work, go shopping, visit doctors, and want to go to the city to play on occasion. But California wants you to abandon your car, so they take out lanes of traffic, time lights obnoxiously, and have other tricks that make driving in cities miserable. I will advocate for this to stop.
Building out regional rail would probably do a lot to alleviate the situation, and makes more sense than high-speed rail to get us from one end of the state to the other - there just is no demand for that in reality.
But in the meantime, we need to get back to a single fuel year round, and do what is necessary to get more refining in California, including building new refineries.
Jobs
We need to bring back manufacturing and support businesses. We need to survey companies that have left or reduced their activity in California and ask them what would it take to bring them back.
Their response will be to lower taxes, lower fuel and other utility costs, reduce risk of employment and environemental lawsuits, more affordable housing, better schools, ability to move products, stable electricity, and overall, less laws and regulations that stifle business.
We need to make California the best place to be in business, not the worst. When California has to compete for the best employees, high paying jobs will return and you can buy your house. What California does not is mandate excessive minimum wages that drive up the costs of restaurants and hotels for the tourists, but drive away manufacturers. There is only so much advancement in service industries. There is a lot of advancement in manufacturing companies.
Electric Cars and Other Vehicles
Electric cars are great, if you want them and have the means to charge them.
I personally get very confused about the current situation of forced electrification when I think of my 3 adult children, all renters. In their busy lives, in their rental home/apartments, how exactly are they supposed to charge their "electric cars", run extension cords out to the street?
Perhaps the schools they work at will allow them to leave early to charge their cars for a few hours a week?
Time to face the truth: The product is not ready (only affordable if subsidized, can't charge as quickly as a gas filllup, range anxiety), California's infrastructure is not ready (chargers not as ubiquitos as gas stations).
Mission
What we believe
California is not doing it for too many
The California we see on television or at the movies is not what we are experiencing in reality.
I Want California to Work For Everybody
California truly is in the hands of the voters, so it can be changed and we must change it.
I have a big ask of you...
I am asking you to give the Republican Party a chance. Vote for me. Let me use this position to convince others to do the same. One Party Rule needs to be over.