Does anyone have thoughts on what any of the current or Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates might offer if being elected Governor?
I'm not taking into account having CA fight back at Trump so much as just running the state, improving its image and making it a more livable and business friendly state. This particularly is important …
Does anyone have thoughts on what any of the current or Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates might offer if being elected Governor?
I'm not taking into account having CA fight back at Trump so much as just running the state, improving its image and making it a more livable and business friendly state. This particularly is important as currently with film production in Hollywood and LA County the costs are too high to allow enough projects.
Kamala Harris I'm seeing as a potential gubernatorial candidate more as a weapon against Trump instead of just being focused like Jerry Brown was as governor pre-Newsom. Katie Porter may pay attention to the income inequality problems facing the state (especially in the big cities and suburbs) and fight against Trump at the same time although I don't know what else.
I honestly was a big Rob Bonta fan until he decided to run for reelection as AG especially because he's the only statewide office holder willing to do more than talk about combating the housing crisis.
The rest of the currently declared field is mediocre from top to bottom. What a shame because we're a state with serious issues that requires an executive in the Jerry Brown mold not whatever Newsom is doing right now.
As Attorney General, Bonta has been vigorously defending housing production laws passed from the legislature and suing recalcitrant local governments like Elk Grove who've done their best to get around state housing laws to deny projects that should be approved under state law.
Cities like Woodside, one of the wealthiest cities in CA, have no excuse in this case. Like they are REALLY going to hurt by building affordable housing that prevent people from being priced out. Kudos for Bonta doing this.
Now if Bonta pushes Democrats to repeal the Costa Hawkins Act and Ellis Act that would really be great.
Rent control doesn't work and never will work. The only solution to the housing crisis is building more housing not disincentivizing landlords. Austin's and Minneapolis's rents didn't fall due to rent control but due to a suburban housing book and urban densification.
It would be cool if Kamala runs on an Abundance agenda platform in California. California is the perfect laboratory for Abundance which will most likely work as it did in Colorado under Polis. Kamala may also be able to overpower the stubborn legislature with her long built political capital, connections and donors (primary NIMBYs like Abbott does to dissidents). If she wants California as a consolation prize then she better stay away. California needs to win the race against Texas imo. Imagine if Hollywood and Silicon Valley had Texas values.
Reporting has it that she is interested in the gubernatorial race and has had "tough" 2028 conversations with her advisors. She will decide by end of summer. Porter has suggested that she will step aside if that happens.
I think the reality is that even if she could win in 2028, it's very likely that a fresh face would perform better than her and be more likely to bring along larger majorities in Congress/majorities at all. California Governor is a top 5 job in American politics, and I think everyone in the party thinks highly enough of her that she could also tack on Secretary of State or Defense or AG afterwards if she wants another spin around the executive branch.
That's what I was thinking as well. I'd rather Kamala Harris be Governor and change the image of California so it's not being looked at as a laughing stock that FL and TX can get benefit from (in an exodus of both businesses and residents). I'd want her to be smarter than what the GOP and Trump think she is and prove them wrong.
You know Florida is not actually even in the top 5 destinations for California emigrants. It's something like Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado and Wash. .
Right although I was just arguing FL and TX figuratively speaking. Anywhere where the cost of living is lower elsewhere by comparison to CA is an incentive to move.
Yes but it’s more than just housing. Cost of doing business factors in as well. Of course, with the LA County fires the State of California is certainly having its hands tied. Costs this, costs that, it all ties up together.
I’d rather Democrats not be singular on this agenda. Let initiatives like AI regulation be done at the federal level while the state level be laser focused on addressing the costs of running a business and housing. Both Main Street businesses and corporations factor in.
California does have to prioritize, but I think that its tradition of being the first to push pro-consumer or environmental regulation is great and a fine thing to maintain.
Business operating expenses are going to have a high correlation with housing expenses. It's not a 100% overlap in the venn diagram but it's rather substantial. The higher housing costs, the higher salaries need to be to attract employees. Higher housing costs also strongly imply that land and construction will be more expensive.
Housing costs are driven up in a good portion because of demand. Then there’s also limited space to build housing as well as other factors such as limitation of single-family housing.
Business operations are completely separate from residential housing. This particularly applies to taxes, some of which btw cities like San Francisco are trying to lower or outright eliminate. If there’s correlation with housing, it’s because of salaries and investment the business owners/CEOs/founders make in the business. Otherwise, no correlation.
Residential businesses on the other hand most certainly have correlation with housing. Naturally, it’s all dependent on the salaries and flexibility residents have in paying for rent.
At this point, I'd prefer Porter just because of how I align with her on the issues. I just wish we had better options in the biggest state in the country but most anyone would be an improvement over Newsom at this point.
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Does anyone have thoughts on what any of the current or Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates might offer if being elected Governor?
I'm not taking into account having CA fight back at Trump so much as just running the state, improving its image and making it a more livable and business friendly state. This particularly is important as currently with film production in Hollywood and LA County the costs are too high to allow enough projects.
Kamala Harris I'm seeing as a potential gubernatorial candidate more as a weapon against Trump instead of just being focused like Jerry Brown was as governor pre-Newsom. Katie Porter may pay attention to the income inequality problems facing the state (especially in the big cities and suburbs) and fight against Trump at the same time although I don't know what else.
I honestly was a big Rob Bonta fan until he decided to run for reelection as AG especially because he's the only statewide office holder willing to do more than talk about combating the housing crisis.
The rest of the currently declared field is mediocre from top to bottom. What a shame because we're a state with serious issues that requires an executive in the Jerry Brown mold not whatever Newsom is doing right now.
I read this as a sign that Kamala told him she's running.
What in particular makes Rob Bonta stand out on the issue of housing? I'm not familiar with his time at the State Assembly.
As Attorney General, Bonta has been vigorously defending housing production laws passed from the legislature and suing recalcitrant local governments like Elk Grove who've done their best to get around state housing laws to deny projects that should be approved under state law.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/california-housing-rules-17188267.php
Cities like Woodside, one of the wealthiest cities in CA, have no excuse in this case. Like they are REALLY going to hurt by building affordable housing that prevent people from being priced out. Kudos for Bonta doing this.
Now if Bonta pushes Democrats to repeal the Costa Hawkins Act and Ellis Act that would really be great.
Rent control doesn't work and never will work. The only solution to the housing crisis is building more housing not disincentivizing landlords. Austin's and Minneapolis's rents didn't fall due to rent control but due to a suburban housing book and urban densification.
It would be cool if Kamala runs on an Abundance agenda platform in California. California is the perfect laboratory for Abundance which will most likely work as it did in Colorado under Polis. Kamala may also be able to overpower the stubborn legislature with her long built political capital, connections and donors (primary NIMBYs like Abbott does to dissidents). If she wants California as a consolation prize then she better stay away. California needs to win the race against Texas imo. Imagine if Hollywood and Silicon Valley had Texas values.
Is she running? If she plans another presidential campaign I doubt she runs for governor. I'm guessing Katie porter knows it.
Reporting has it that she is interested in the gubernatorial race and has had "tough" 2028 conversations with her advisors. She will decide by end of summer. Porter has suggested that she will step aside if that happens.
I think the reality is that even if she could win in 2028, it's very likely that a fresh face would perform better than her and be more likely to bring along larger majorities in Congress/majorities at all. California Governor is a top 5 job in American politics, and I think everyone in the party thinks highly enough of her that she could also tack on Secretary of State or Defense or AG afterwards if she wants another spin around the executive branch.
hearing from a lot of OC California Dems who voted for KH that most of them would prefer her as Governor and not run for Prez....fwiw.
That's what I was thinking as well. I'd rather Kamala Harris be Governor and change the image of California so it's not being looked at as a laughing stock that FL and TX can get benefit from (in an exodus of both businesses and residents). I'd want her to be smarter than what the GOP and Trump think she is and prove them wrong.
You know Florida is not actually even in the top 5 destinations for California emigrants. It's something like Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado and Wash. .
Right although I was just arguing FL and TX figuratively speaking. Anywhere where the cost of living is lower elsewhere by comparison to CA is an incentive to move.
You hit on the most urgent problem California needs to tackle: the housing crisis. That and the ravages of global warming, especially fires.
Yes but it’s more than just housing. Cost of doing business factors in as well. Of course, with the LA County fires the State of California is certainly having its hands tied. Costs this, costs that, it all ties up together.
I’d rather Democrats not be singular on this agenda. Let initiatives like AI regulation be done at the federal level while the state level be laser focused on addressing the costs of running a business and housing. Both Main Street businesses and corporations factor in.
California does have to prioritize, but I think that its tradition of being the first to push pro-consumer or environmental regulation is great and a fine thing to maintain.
The good regulations need to be kept and the bad need to be repealed.
That's always the case everywhere, right? The debates will be about which regulations are good or bad.
Sure. I agree.
Business operating expenses are going to have a high correlation with housing expenses. It's not a 100% overlap in the venn diagram but it's rather substantial. The higher housing costs, the higher salaries need to be to attract employees. Higher housing costs also strongly imply that land and construction will be more expensive.
It all loops back to housing costs.
It also has a huge effect on rents, which can be a tremendous business expense!
Not always.
Housing costs are driven up in a good portion because of demand. Then there’s also limited space to build housing as well as other factors such as limitation of single-family housing.
Business operations are completely separate from residential housing. This particularly applies to taxes, some of which btw cities like San Francisco are trying to lower or outright eliminate. If there’s correlation with housing, it’s because of salaries and investment the business owners/CEOs/founders make in the business. Otherwise, no correlation.
Residential businesses on the other hand most certainly have correlation with housing. Naturally, it’s all dependent on the salaries and flexibility residents have in paying for rent.
At this point, I'd prefer Porter just because of how I align with her on the issues. I just wish we had better options in the biggest state in the country but most anyone would be an improvement over Newsom at this point.
I agree. Newsom's replacement needs to be a definitive upgrade and that's Porter or Harris for me!! 💙🇺🇲