United States SenateCandidate for SenatorFull Term

As large as California is, and as often as our droughts become a problem, there is ZERO reason why, in our ENTIRE STATE which is 50% lined with water, why we only have 11 Desalination plants. California is a MASSIVE STATE and we have MILLIONS OF TONS OF WATER RIGHT HERE that we can process, desalinate and use to both fight our drought periods AND tap into when fires break out. California should lead the pack in having HUNDREDS of these sites and reservoirs of desalinated water that spans the entire state. Many will say "yeah, but, where will you get the money"... We SCRAP the bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco (a want) WHICH, by the way, is on pace to carry a 105-BILLION-dollar price tag by the time its done, and we re-invest that money into what we need. This...Just..Makes..Sense!

YES! This is a very simple address for me. Our nation is and will continue to be built on immigration. If there is anything MAJOR to add to our existing law it absolutely needs to come down to the humanitarian aspect of immigration. If we make the process of immigrating to America comfortable, welcoming and pleasant... NOT treating HUMANS as though they are cattle waiting to be branded, we would inevitable see much less chaos at the border. People will understand and know that comfort and compassion is right around the corner. We need to have processing stations at the border where health care workers are positioned who can screen those who are in bad health, to ensure they are receiving both food, water, and physical aide to ensure they are okay. We need to have mental health stations at the border because we far too often forget that many of the immigrants have traveled hundreds of miles, often nutrient deficient and dehydrated in acts of desperations. We need welcome stations where immigrants are registered and understand that they have been documented and that they must comply with not just American Law, but their processing dates. If we can develope structured and methodical stations, the flow at the border will be much more inviting as well as controlled. We will be able to drastically decrease the negative perceptions that we see and hear so much about.

Our voting system needs to continue to be one of our most respected and protected system as it is a freedom within our democracy that so many have fought and died for. We need to be leading the world in voter turnout. We need to Accept the outcome of our elections simply because we know this is America and we lead the world in voter security, verification, as well as technology to ensure our elections are not infiltrated by ANY outside OR inside source. Our technology needs to continue to advance to ensure our elections are sacred. We cannot have what we had over the last 2 years in an American persistently claiming that our voting system is rigged because, much like the art of war, the best way to create chaos is to create it from within. 

Example of advancing in protection: If we have voter’s receipts much like a restaurant tab, where our electronic votes are casted, AND we receive a printed out "receipt" that shows who we voted for that gets signed upon final scan (on paper), and that gets sealed and delivered, we can have a backup count system. I believe we have a lot of foreign and domestic players who are looking to "get what they want" or "who they want" in office. Our job is to stay 2 steps ahead of them. 

Incentives need to be our best friend. We have seen too many "time crunch" type pushes here in California with no regard to peoples financial/life situations. We need to impose an indefinite tax incentive to citizens to encourage and incentivize, without feeling pressure, to pursue, adapt and adopt solar so our carbon footprint begins to decrease. We have become creatures of a required need for "Instant" results which gets us in trouble because that sets us up for failure. There is no denying that California is a pretty difficult state to live in in terms of something as basic as cost of living. We need to do a better job of INCENTIVISING our citizens to make changes, INCENTIVIZES big business to implement changes, and encourage California citizens to way to stay here in our golden state.

Additionally, avoiding "the abrupt requirement to change" which almost always comes with immediate resistance, we need to have a slow, yet steady, implementation and re-introduction to renewable energy. We need to look much deeper into our ability to "carbon capture" as to decrease the environments carbon emissions AS THESE COMPANIES ADAPT... 

Tax incentives (similar to the cash for clunkers) movement) where people can exchange their gas powered vehicles to aide in transitioning into electric vehicles. Again, I cannot emphasize enough that people are IMMEDIATELY resistant and will not comply if they feel forced to do ANYTHING (clearly seen). We need to bring a psychological component to the game and allow people to feel that WE are willing to do whatever it takes to work WITH our citizens to pursue and protect our environment and its carbon emissions. 

Many of the bills are very aggressive and read as forceful. Anytime you see the word "required", people are naturally going to feel like they didn’t have a say and they will find ways to rebel. This, again, is just how we as people function. We need to UNITE, and move forward TOGETHER as one nation seeking COMMON goals.