San Diego – Six Democrats who show up at the post of governor next year focused on the affordability of housing, the cost of living and health care reductions as the most intimidating problems facing the Californians during a work forum on Saturday in San Diego.
Large in the filing of these questions, the candidates underlined their political curriculum vitae and their life stories to try to create contrasts and favorites of Curry with the participants.
The former head of the majority of the State Assembly Ian Calderon, during his first governor forum since entering the race at the end of September, relied on his experience as the first millennium elected to the state legislature.
“I have the impression that my experience and my passion positioned me in a unique way in this race to ride in a way that no one else can roll, be a millennium and be young and have a different perspective,” said Calderon, 39.
The concerns concerning his future of four children as well as on state dependence in Washington, DC, led his decision to present himself to the post of governor after having chosen not to request the re -election of the Legislative Assembly in 2020.
“I want (my children) to have the opportunity. I want them to have a future. I want life to be better. I want it to be easier, ”said Calderon, whose family has deep roots in politics. Heads of state must focus on California to the DC test. We cannot continue to depend on DC and expect they will give like – about us and what are our needs, because they don’t do it. ”
The former American secretary of health and social services, Xavier Becerra, who was also a prosecutor general of the State after a 24 -year stay at the Congress, argued that it was essential to elect a governor who has experience.
“Do you want to let someone who has never stolen a plane tell you,” I can bring this plane back to land “if he has never done it before?” Asked Becerra. “Do you give the keys to the governor’s office to someone who hasn’t done this before?”
He contrasted with other candidates in the race by invoking a chihuahua barking behind a chain connection fence.
“Where’s the bite?” He said, after having mentioned his history, like the chase of President Trump 122 times, and directed the federal bureaucracy of sprawling health during the pandemic. “You don’t do teeth nave overnight.”
Calderon and Becerra were among six Democratic candidates who spoke at length to around 150 Californian leaders in several chapters from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees.
The union has more than 200,000 members in California and is beaten by the closure of the federal government, the state budget deficit and imminent health care strikes. AFSCME is a powerful force in Californian politics, providing troops to hit the doors of voters and telephone banks.
The forum came while the governor’s field to replace Governor Gavin Newsom is taking place.
Former vice-president Kamala Harris announced earlier this summer that she had opted for the candidacy for the headquarters. The former head of the State Senate, Toni Atkins, suspended his governor campaign at the end of September.
Rumors continue to spin if the billionaire businessman Rick Caruso or Senator Alex Padilla will join the field.
“I weigh it. But my goal is above all to encourage people to vote for proposal 50,” said the rediscovery of the congress on the November ballot, Padilla at the New York Times told an interview published on Saturday. “The other decision? This race is only next year. So this decision will come.”
The rich democratic businessman Stephen J. Cloobeck and the republican sheriff of the Riverside Chad Bianco refused an invitation to participate in the forum, citing previous commitments.
The union will examine an approval at a future conference, said Matthew Maldonado, Executive Director of District Council 36, who represents 25,000 workers in South California.
The former mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, looked at his longtime roots in work before running for the elections. But he also referred to tensions with the unions after being elected mayor in 2005.
Tagged “SCAB” when he crossed the picking lines the following year during a strike by workers in the city, Villaraigosa also clashed with unions on content and layoffs during the recession. His relationship with work reached a hollow in 2010 when Villaraigosa called the city teachers’ union, where he worked in the past: “the biggest obstacle to the creation of quality schools”.
“I want you to know something about me. I’m not going to say yes to every damn that everyone is approaching me, including sometimes unions,” said Villaraigosa. “When I was mayor, they would sometimes tell you that I had to say no. Why? I was not going to go bankrupt, and I knew I had to protect pensions and the rest.”
He undertook to work with work if he is elected governor.
The labor leaders asked most of the forum issues, all the candidates being questioned about the same subjects, as if they have supported and campaign for a constitutional amendment of the state offered to help the workers of the UC to the downward loans.
“Hell yes,” said the former representative Katie Porter d’Irvine, who teaches the law faculty of UC Irvine and benefited from a program created by state university leaders to allow professors to buy houses lower than the rate of the market in the cost of expensive orange because the high cost of housing in the region was an obstacle to the recruitment of teachers.
“I can benefit from the investment of UC Irvine in their professionals and teachers and professional housing, but they do not do it for everyone,” she said, noting that workers such as clerks, concierges and patient care staff do not have access to similar advantages.
Supt. Public instruction, Tony Thurmond, who entered the “California Love” dancing from Dr. Dre and Tupac, agreed to support housing loans as well as browse the lines of stakes with tens of thousands of Kaiser Health employees are expected to strike later this month.
The local AFSCME leaders listening to the former American secretary of health and social services, Xavier Becerra, are expressed during a governor forum on Saturday in San Diego.
(Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times)
“I will be there,” replied Thurmond, adding that he had just spoken on the phone with Kaiser’s director general, and urged him to respond to labor requests, payment, retirement and benefits, especially the day after their work during the pandemic. “Do it just, damn it and give them what they are asking for.”
The former state controller, Betty Yee, has also accepted the two requests, arguing that health employers focus on profit at the expense of care for patients.
“Yes, absolutely,” she said when he was asked to join the Kaiser strike line. “Shame on them. You can’t expect you to take care of others if you can’t take care of yourself.”
