
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Maintains state incentives boosted renewable energy, opposes regulatory overreach slowing energy delivery, and calls for cheaper robust power grids.

Opposes AB5-style broad labor-market regulation, would veto complexity-increasing bills without relief, and maintains a better-than-cash anti-poverty baseline.

Calls for phonics and arithmetic fundamentals, opposes reliance on state-mandated textbooks, and urges scrutiny of university administrative bloat.

Opposes mandated ideological approaches in education.

Calls for auditing prison bureaucracy, supports diversion and defelonization strategies, and advocates reduced incarceration while maintaining safety.

Supports testing existing regulations and agencies, opposes rules that add bureaucracy, and supports measurable results for residents.

Supports reducing regulatory friction blocking housing development and backs CEQA-related efforts lowering development barriers.

Calls for a direct cash transfers baseline, supports state-level bargaining through Medi-Cal, and calls for scrutinizing wasteful local projects.

Supports Medi-Cal negotiating lower costs and calls for evaluating health programs against cash.

Supports reducing regulatory friction blocking public infrastructure, expanded power grids and reservoirs, and efficient highway and core infrastructure management.

Opposes AB5 for harming part-time workers, calls for vetoes on bills that add complexity, and urges minimizing harm from broad labor mandates.

Supports transparent California tax and spending structure, calls for direct cash program benchmarks, and urges auditing bureaucratic bloat in spending.

Supports eliminating mandatory minimums for drug offenses, backs diversion-to-treatment programs instead of prison, and supports reclassifying low-level drug offenses as infractions.

Opposes broad labor mandates like AB5 and calls for tradeoff-aware workplace regulation.