Two hundred and eighty million dollars! That is how much the Governor and his legislative enablers want to spend on the gerrymandering Special Election assault on voter integrity, the California budget is in disarray. Gavin Newsom and the Sacramento ruling party ran up a $12 billion deficit that they "closed" in July with accounting gimmicks and rosy revenue projections. Now as their budget falls apart, they are talking about a Special Legislative Session in the Fall to again deal with the budget they supposedly fixed in July. And none of that stops them from wasting $280 million tax dollars on Newsom's vanity project: giving politicians a safe back room to gerrymander the state. 

I’m running for Secretary of State to work on behalf of the voters and taxpayers of this state because someone has to be their voice. Prop 50’s cost estimate is just the latest news that voters and taxpayers are getting a raw deal. My opponent, the Newsom-appointed Shirley Weber, is just going to sit back and go along with the Governor without standing up for the people who elected her.

The fact of the matter is none of these politicians have the best interests of the voters in mind;  Newsom's political rhetoric and Shirley Weber's enabling of that rhetoric will cost voters and taxpayers dearly.

If we want to save our Democracy, we need to start protecting the security of our elections and the first step to that should be to implement processes that prohibit ineligible voters from voting. 

Just last week the Democrats on my Board of Supervisors blocked attempts to investigate a situation where a dog was registered to vote and even cast a ballot in two elections. During that debate one of them stated she would be more motivated to remove ineligible voters from the voter rolls if they “don’t support my core values." 

This is the type of mentality we have to change throughout California -- voter integrity should come first and foremost.