PUT CALIFORNIA’S MONEY WHERE OUR VALUES ARE

California is home to extraordinary wealth and staggering inequality.

While working families struggle to afford rent, healthcare, and groceries, billionaires grow richer off a system designed in their favor. I support bold taxation on extreme wealth to fund housing, climate resilience, public education, and healthcare.

As Treasurer, I will use the voice and influence of the office to advocate for tax justice, ensuring the ultra-wealthy and multinational corporations pay their fair share.

Our state should work for the many, not the few.

California workers create the wealth of this state.

For 32 years, I ran a small retail business in Oakland. I balanced budgets, filed taxes, and prepared financial reports. When I retired, I sold my shop to my employees because I believe prosperity should be shared.

We need living wages that reflect the real cost of living. As Treasurer, I will champion investments in worker-owned enterprises, union jobs, and community-based businesses, not corporations that extract profit while suppressing wages.

Healthcare is a human right.

Our public investments should strengthen community health systems and mental health services, not insurance conglomerates that deny care while generating record profits.

As Treasurer, I will support financial strategies that help move California toward universal healthcare and ensure public dollars prioritize care over corporate gain. 

Housing is a human necessity, not a speculative commodity.

I support the development of public banking alternatives, including efforts like the Public Bank of the East Bay. Public banks can redirect our state’s financial power toward affordable housing, climate adaptation, and small business development instead of Wall Street speculation.

Public dollars should build homes, not hedge fund portfolios.

Our pension funds, California Public Employees' Retirement System and California State Teachers' Retirement System, manage billions on behalf of public workers.

Yet these funds remain invested in:

• Weapons manufacturers
• Corporations supplying arms to the Israeli military
• Fossil fuel giants driving climate collapse

I support full divestment from:

• Corporations arming the Israeli government’s military operations
• Weapons manufacturers that profit from endless war
• Fossil fuel companies fueling environmental destruction

These investments are not only morally indefensible, they are financially risky in a rapidly changing global economy.

Divesting from war and fossil fuels protects both our conscience and our pensions.

California’s public wealth should protect the 99%, not bankroll violence or climate catastrophe.

A real safety net means guaranteeing the essentials of life: food security, healthcare, stable housing, education and access to local services that keep communities strong. 

Public wealth should be used to ensure that every Californian has the foundation they need to live with dignity.

Student debt is a lifelong burden for millions of Californians.

Public funds should not be invested in predatory lenders that profit from crushing educational debt. I support creative public financing strategies and debt relief initiatives that move us toward a student debt jubilee.

Education should be a liberation.