California's public education system is broken at every level, including higher education. It is too expensive to attend, student loan debt is crushing many graduates, and the construction of new universities and colleges hasn't kept up with our population growth for decades. I will make education a top priority as Lieutenant Governor.

As Chairwoman of the Commission for Economic Development, I would make the poorest and most underserved areas of Califonria a priority. Expansive big government programs have done nothing to help these areas succeed; instead, I believe we need to reduce red tape, encourage investment, and allow the market to work as it is supposed to. That is the best and fastest path to creating prosperity in a community.

Success in this office means setting a new tone in Sacramento. As a working mom I know how hard it is for middle-class families across our state to make ends meet and succeed in California today. For too long one-party rule in Sacramento has created a disconnect from average Californians and those who are supposed to represent and serve in the Capitol. I will bring fresh ideas and a new perspective to state government.

California has historically had one of the greatest public university systems in the world.

However, costs, corruption and an imbalance between the job market needs and what is being taught have darkened a once great system.

Thousands of Californian’s have escaped poverty by rising from nothing to having great jobs which were made available by attending California’s public colleges.

My Vietnamese Immigrant wife received her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology at UC Davis after her family arrived in the US with nothing, but thankful they had been rescued at sea by the U.S. Navy after escaping communism and waiting their legal turn to come to the US.

She has lived the California dream.

The dream of working hard, getting a world class education, and being rewarded with a job and career she loves.

But, she earned her degree in the year 2000.

However, today in 2022 we see Starbucks baristas with Masters Degrees that don’t match the job market and being burdened with crushing debt.

There are 3 things that David Fennell will do as Lieutenant Governor:

• Work with Universities to better match education with job market.

• Provide paths to college graduation while limiting college debt.

• Auditing educations systems for waste and free speech violations.

It should be noted that in addition to the UC Board of Regents and the CSU Board of Trustees the Lt. Governor also sits on the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges system.

There are 115 accredited Community colleges in California that serve over 2 million students and provide a path for students to inexpensively earn undergraduate requirements before transferring to UC or State schools. 

In addition, community colleges and trade schools can provide training and certificate programs that can lead to jobs that often pay higher wages than some Masters degrees. The other reality is not every high school graduate wants to or should go to college, and given the high costs should be able to pursue jobs and careers better suited for their skills and goals. 

It is also clear the University system still has a black eye after it was exposed that they had a secret fund of millions of dollars which they hid from the public, and there needs to be an audit of all accounts. 

Finally, higher education should be a place that challenges the student with all ideas and points of view and there have been too many stories that certain viewpoints are not being heard or considered at top Universities. This is unacceptable.

David Fennell has earned his Undergraduate and Master's Degree from California Universities and has the experience to guide California’s public schools into a cost effective education that is suited for the jobs of the future. 

David Fennell has spent three years making at least 5 trips to all of California’s 58 counties.

The poorest communities in California are not only in select regions of the inner cities but increasing in rural and remote areas where citizens are priced out of their hometowns and forced into long distance commutes.

The problem is the Commission for Economic Development has not held a meeting in years.

As stated as of May 7, 2022, on the Office of California of Lieutenant Governor website:

“In addition, under state statutes, the Lieutenant Governor chairs the California Commission for Economic Development, which provides support and guidance to the Governor, Legislature and private sector regarding the development of California’s economy. The Commission is composed of appointees from the Legislature and the Governor and currently does not have a quorum needed to meet.”

This is crazy.

California is suffering from inflation, high gas prices, jobs leaving the state and the Office of Lieutenant Governor is stating on their website that they don’t even have a quorum to meet?

So, the first thing David Fennell would do as Lieutenant Governor is meet with the leaders of California’s 58 Counties and 482 municipalities to write a new Economic Plan for the State as is required as part of the role as Lt. Governor.

As David Fennell travels the state he has met with county and city leaders who have plans to bring jobs and prosperity to California’s poorest communities, but they need help from Sacramento and the complaint is that none of the current administration has ever visited their struggling region.

Many of the jobs that are leaving the expensive and regulatory burdened Californian areas such as Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc should not be outsourcing jobs to Texas, Florida and Tennessee but should be “insourcing” to some of our poorer urban and rural communities.

However, many of these communities lack the resources and regulatory guidance to keep and attract new jobs. 

In addition, numerous rural mountain communities are being destroyed by forest fires due to mismanagement, and farmers are struggling to water their crops due to lack of water - which leads to job loss in the agricultural industry.

California feeds the world, and we innovate the tech, movies, and music which is used and watched around the planet which is creating the world's largest number of billionaires of any region.

However, every day we hear of jobs leaving the state and the poorest members of our community being out of work and falling through the societal cracks created by mismanagement in Sacramento.

Furthermore, massive fraud and corruption is burdening our poorest communities.

California, we can return to the shining star of all the states but we need new leadership.

David Fennell has lived and worked in the poorest parts of California and he know what it takes to improve our most challenged parts of the state.

The Lieutenant Governor is perhaps the most powerful position in California politics that few voters actually understand.

Perhaps aside from being President of the State Senate the most important roles of Lt. Governor is chairing or sitting on the boards of the most critical agencies in Sacramento including State Lands Commission, Commission for Economic Development, Board of Regents of the University of California, Board of Trustees of the California State University system, Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges system, California Ocean Protection Council, California Coastal Commission, etc.

Historically, the Lt. Governor has had the option of taking on these critical roles or deferring them to other government officials such as the pro Tempore of the State Senate.

Many of these important agencies have not actually met in years and have not had a quorum to  decide on critical issues facing the state. The current website for the Office of Lieutenant Governor openly states the California Commission for Economic Development “currently does not have a quorum needed to meet.”

One of the Benchmarks for measuring success would be actually showing up to work in Sacramento and doing the job and holding much needed meetings of agencies such as Chairing the California Commission for Economic Development where the Lt. Governor is put in charge of writing the Economic Plan for the State of California.

At this time when jobs are leaving the state and prices are on the rise, forest are on fire, and farmers can’t get water it is a critical time for the Lt. Governor to write a comprehensive State economic plan to guide the state’s 58 counties out of this critical economic period.

In addition, there needs to be an audit of the UC California and State schools given that the The University of California hid $175 million from the public in secret funds while its administrators demanded more money from the state.

The California Employment Economic Development Agency (EDD) paid out more than $20 billion to criminals in the form of fraudulent COVID unemployment benefits yet the California Commission for Economic Development failed to even meet or provide the slightest hint of suggested oversight during the pandemic.

As Benchmarks for David Fennell’s Lieutenant Governor administration he would ensure that all of the committees actual met and that all agencies were audited for waste and fraud and that the Commission for Economic Development issue the Economic Plan for the State of California that includes input from all of California’s 58 counties and 482 municipalities.

The California Lieutenant Governor is the 2nd highest governing position in the state and under the proper leadership can guide our 40 million residents out of the current economic crisis.

David Fennell will do the job.

Let me reiterate two of my points from my previous paragraph regarding measuring my success in office. The two points are when businesses return to California and entrepreneurs start new businesses because the operating costs of businesses are lower in California. This includes fewer regulations and lower taxes at the city, county, and state levels for permits, business licenses, sales taxes, business taxes, employee taxes, etc... When businesses can afford to operate, this will help all businesses in all parts of California be able to afford to hire more people and pay their employees a better wage. In the long run, this will help single parents working 2 or more jobs, this will help families be able to work 40 hrs a week at 1 job and have time with their kids’ school, sports, and family time. The second part is addressing inflation appropriately to prevent inflation in the price of food, gas, utilities, etc…

My benchmark to measure my successful actions in the office is when I see the majority of homeless rebuilding their lives or living in a facility and off the streets in our cities, businesses returning to California, entrepreneurs starting new businesses because they can afford to operate a business in California now and in the future, schools teaching the entire history of the United States, highschools including classes on civics, banking, homeownership, and managing personal finances.

those who teach useless degrees need to find another place to teach, this money machine needs to develope and nurish those folks who will aid in making this state a better place.Our instructors of higher eduaction have mase activists of your

children, they have made them blind to the truth, ignorant of reality and unable to make best use of their tallents. college degrees make that introduction the new employee must use their skills to benefit the employer and themselves. and lately?

I am unable to trust many new employed to communicate a question to a job task let alone be observant enough to safely carry out those tasks, nothing like a post work inspection to find they spent a day putting a part in backwards,

we need to make standards and keep them, no one is equal, thay all are different and many are similar that is the nature of being human, those who blindly go through college with useless dergees or missmatched skills are mo use to themselves

or the future of society. we have too many useles brainless political activist folks in life today, look to those who lead the state and country and that will prove my point, The Green New Squeal, Social Justice, and this agenda against citizens all part

of a failed Modern education ,Education should : make them useful, make them benefit, make societal cultue better, and raise the standard for a better future     

first we need to remove those in office who suppressed our business community so we can afford to care for the less fortunate, the cost of business here over and beyond the employer conribution to the employees is staggering .taxes, fees,

permits. tarriffs, exsize taxes, carbon credits, energy and resource costs . a friend left here to Arizona and instanly made 41% profit, he hired 5 more employees expanded his shop and plans to make more hires, so why such a difference?

Permits to build without wavers is asronomical along with regulations . Keep the high standards of constuction cut nack on the red tape and cost of doing business with the state. they are paid wether thay work or not, If it was like when I was with

the Bureau an 8 hour day was 5 of work and for the 4,10 maybe six? I know I was there, and the USBP kept saying just sign the logs , "you won't get in trouble", I beleive in competent work and an honest days worth of work, 

I should not nor the state become the constant and blatent supporter of the poor, they need opporunities to acquire and exploite work and if they are not able assistance will then be needed .  

as for our incumbents? the dead wood and instigators of crisis? with new minds and honest God fearing leaders in place all other solutions will then be possible to solve in our society.

removal of all those who made it possible for those in California to be harmed, the measurable benefits to all who live here will then be realized.

I know when those in office return to our constitutions and its job requirements those problems that are today crisis will become minor adjustments rather than imposible tasks

when the graft and revolving door crony contracts are repealed and nullified a more eficient maintenance function will return, those government "industrial" "military" "homeless" "social"complexes are to make others rich and benefit too few.

common sense laws and their enforcement,those in power , politicians, criminals and those who can not care for themselves are in need of management of the state and need to be wrds of the state, The good citizens have no meed of state

management, We all need to be good stewards of the land so environmental laws will be kept current yet the state needs to not charge for inspections for state employees are paid anyway, The state is not a business and must return to the

roll of mentor, guide, and standard maker.