Fighting for

We’re essentially fighting for our families, neighbors, communities, and our State. We believe California can do better — and we believe only we can fix it together. Otherwise, are we to let a party’s agenda tell us how to live and spend our money dividing us all. The following are some of the issues we’re fighting for:

•   Fighting for Our Children and Their Future

California’s future begins in our classrooms. How our children treat one another, how they learn to respect shared spaces, how they develop confidence, discipline, and compassion — this will determine the California they inherit in terms of the public sphere.

Our public schools, a public institution, should teach more than academics.
They should teach respect, responsibility, courtesy, and character.

That means, as an example:

· Students greeting each other in the morning

· Learning to clean up and take care of their classrooms and activity areas

· Developing empathy for classmates

· Feeling a collective ownership over the places they share

These small lessons build big citizens. If we want a California where people respect one another, we must start by teaching our children how they should interact within public spaces and institutions.

•   Fighting to Protect Our Public Spaces

Our roads, highways, parks, schools, sidewalks, and public buildings belong to all of us.
We built them. We paid for them. We inherited them.  We maintained them. We depend on them.

We should refuse to let them be destroyed, vandalized, controlled by personal decisions, or used as battlegrounds for private interests.

We will fight to make sure:

·  Public infrastructures are respected

·  People who destroy or exploit them are held accountable

·  Communities have a voice in how public spaces are managed

·  No one misuses our “public spaces” as an excuse for corruption or division

        ·   That private desires and choice do not dictate the path of the collective, public good

These public spaces are our shared home. And we must protect them and be accountable to one another while protecting one another.

•  Fighting for Genuine Public Safety — Not Political Games

Public safety should mean one thing: protecting our families, neighbors, and communities, not protecting political power and motives disguised as “public safety!”

We will fight for:

·  Criminals to be held accountable and face their consequences

·  Victims are defended

·  Safe Communities

·  Online predators, cyberbullies, and keyboard warriors are accountable unable to hide their identity

·  Those who violate the public trust answer for it

·  A just judicial system with proper oversight

· No one misuses “public safety” to disguise corruption, division, or private interests

Public safety should unite us — not divide us, threaten our independence and our way of life. We will work and fight to restore fairness, accountability, and public trust.

•   Fighting for Responsibility, Redemption, and Justice

We should believe in accountability and in consequences.
But we also believe in redemption — in second chances earned through honesty and change by fully complying with consequences.

Adults must be responsible for their actions. And when someone has harmed another person or our community, they must take responsibility, make things right, and earn back the trust of the people.

Justice without mercy creates resentment. Mercy without justice creates chaos.
We should fight to restore balance considering imbalance leads to extreme conflicts between oppression and lawlessness.

•   Fighting for the Dignity of Work

Every person who is able should be empowered to work — because work gives dignity, purpose, and independence.

We believe:

·  Social assistance should empower people, not trap them

        ·  Those receiving help should contribute according to their abilities, earning their keep

·  Opportunities for training and trades should be expanded

·  No one should be left behind, but no one should be left idle

Work is not punishment. Work is freedom. And we should protect that freedom.

•   Fighting For Government Accountability and Public Trust

Californians needs to gain its public trust by holding itself accountable. Political parties have cleared the way for personal desires and choices to co-opt our government’s policies, laws, and treasury at our expense.

Enough is enough; together, we’re strong enough, and courageous enough to make a difference.

We will fight to:

·  Reveal, expose, and be critical in the “analysis” of bills

·  Reveal and expose deceptive budgeted line-item expenses within a decoy

·  Have oversight involving families and communities over government programs

·  Have programs and policies that build our families, neighbors, and communities.

·  Increase families and neighbors spending capacity while diminishing government’s spending capacity.

Every dollar collected from us must serve us — not political insiders. We need to fight for public trust by holding our government accountable.

•   Fighting for California and Us, Together

California has every ingredient for greatness:

· The best weather

· The best landscapes

· The best parks and outdoor life

· The best athletes and team

· The best industries and markets

· The best innovators

· The best carne asadas

· The best events

· The most diverse communities and best people

But we’ve lost our sense of vision and direction.
We’ve allowed division, mismanagement, and corruption to overshadow what makes us the best to do great things together.

We’re fighting to bring California together again. To build us up around our strengths and not tear ourselves down. To create a place second to none — not because of our slogans, but because of our shared character.

In short, we’re fighting for each other!