The first thing that must happen: California voters unite to elect a Republican Governor and break the Democrat veto-proof supermajorities in the State Legislature.

There are currently 60 Democrat and 20 Republican members of the State Assembly. To break the supermajority we need to increase the number of Republicans to at least 27. In the State Senate the split is the same: 30 Democrats and 10 Republicans. We need to elect at least 14 Republican Senators. Numerically it’s less challenging, but as State Senators serve 4 instead of 2 year terms, only half will be running for reelection this year.

As Dr. Thomas Sowell has often said: “There are no solutions. There are only tradeoffs.” California voters have to decide which is more important: Making California more affordable or maintaining the high cost of its government and all of the regulatory controls it exerts over housing, the environment, businesses of all types and sizes, and the social justice goals which place a tremendous burden on every taxpayer? We can’t have our cake and eat it, too.

The problem with the second choice is it is not sustainable. Jobs and companies will keep leaving, making California even less affordable up to the point it collapses.

If a majority of voters choose the first option – making California more affordable – I will work with the Republicans and reasonable Democrats in the Assembly to:

1. Roll back regulatory legislation across the board.

2. Develop a plan based on the Texas model to lure companies and jobs back to California, and to keep the companies and job we still have.

3. Develop a plan to reduce the size of California’s state government, thereby reducing the state budget and the per capita tax burden on all Californians.

4. Repeal the new tax on gasoline and stop the plan to tax motorists for every mile they drive. Both are regressive taxes that cause the most harm to lower income Californians.