Christy Smith is an American politician who was the California State Assemblywoman for the 38th district from 2018 until 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, Smith ran two unsuccessful campaigns for California's 25th congressional district, losing twice to Republican Mike Garcia.
Healthcare is a human right and while the Affordable Care Act was a tremendous step in that direction, Christy believes we need to do more to reduce costs, ensure that every American has access to affordable healthcare, and protect those with pre-existing conditions. Additionally, Christy believes we need to have the same consumer protections in the healthcare system as we do in any consumer market, which includes transparency when it comes to the real cost of healthcare treatments. She will work to shed light on pricing that for too long has been negotiated in the dark.
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Congress needs to do the work of controlling the skyrocketing cost of healthcare, including the rising costs of prescription drugs. It’s unacceptable that US taxpayers subsidize the research and development of lifesaving drugs, only to pay more for them than people who live in Europe, Japan, and Canada. Christy will also fight to protect Medicaid and Medicare, women's reproductive healthcare rights, and funding for Planned Parenthood.
In the California State Assembly, Christy Smith:
Secured $700,000 for the Free Clinic of Simi Valley
Wrote and passed the bill to help community colleges recruit and retain nursing faculty
Authored legislation to increase affordable access to mental health services, particularly in rural areas​
Defending reproductive freedom and expanding access to reproductive health services
Christy believes that a great education levels the playing field and creates more opportunity for all of our young people. That's why she has dedicated her career, particularly as a federal education policy expert and a member of her local school board, to improving schools and giving every student a fair chance through a world-class education, including:
Ensuring charter school accountability and transparency by authoring and passing the first significant regulation on California's charter school industry in 27 years
Chairing the successful Measure E Prop 39 bond campaign for the Newhall District, which provided $60 million in resources for facility and technology upgrades
Making school sexual harassment resources accessible on school campuses
Expanding the California ScholarShare program to pay for expenses associated with college such as rent, textbooks and rent, expanding college affordability
In Congress, she will work to support every student from preschool to grad school. Christy will work to invest in local public classrooms so that we can hire more teachers and reduce class sizes, and pay teachers livable middle class wages.
We must ensure students have options after K-12, without going into a lifetime of debt. Christy will work to increase the affordability and availability of options like job training, apprenticeships, technical school, and more affordable public colleges and universities.
With abortion rights under attack, Christy has been a steadfast defender of the right to choose, which is why she has a 100% scorecard from Planned Parenthood. She’ll push back against Republican efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade and end funding for Planned Parenthood, protect abortion rights in federal law, and protect the ability to buy contraceptives.
Here in the 27th District, we are all too familiar with the emerging threat of the climate crisis—experiencing wildfires in nearly every part of the district, air and water pollution, drought, and more.
For too long, federal agencies have fallen short in their stewardship, so we must fight to ensure accountability and reform. We have a lot of work to do to protect the air our children breathe and water they drink here at home, including shutting down the Aliso Canyon gas facility and ensuring aggressive oversight of our district’s two toxic waste clean-up sites, Santa Susana Field Laboratory and Whittaker Bermite, and three landfills, Sunshine Canyon, Chiquita Canyon, and Simi Valley.​
As Chair of the State Assembly's Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Management, Christy co-authored a law that ensures first responders have mental healthcare covered in their workers’ compensation policy and worked to ensure communities had the resources needed in the face of growing wildfires. Christy held town halls to properly educate communities about wildfire resiliency and how to prevent loss of life, livelihood and property.
Now, Christy is an appointed member of the California Delta Stewardship Council where she works on issues like water supply reliability and ecosystem health with the council consisting of experts on agriculture, science, the environment and public service.
We must also invest in building a fully renewable and clean energy infrastructure using wind and solar to create good mortgage-paying jobs and combat the climate crisis so we can ensure our community is a place where families can live and thrive for generations to come, before it’s too late.
We need to get serious about creating better-paying jobs right here in our community so more middle-class families can prosper and don’t need to spend hours away from their families to commute to downtown Los Angeles.
Christy Smith has a plan to do it. She believes we must make smart investments in transportation infrastructure, education, scientific research, and renewable and clean energy industries to create sustainable jobs in our community that will also pay the mortgage. We must do more to help people start and grow small businesses right here at home and give people the career skills they need by making colleges and trade schools more affordable and accessible, all the while ensuring that workers have the right to organize and have a voice in the workplace through unions.
As a former labor leader, Christy understands the value of our unions and passing the Protecting the Right to Organize Act or PRO Act to support California's working families.
As a mother, Christy believes that every one of us has the right to live without the fear of gun violence and protect our families. That’s why she will work to promote public safety in neighborhoods across the 27th District and America by stemming the tide of gun violence and fighting for comprehensive and mandatory universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, “red flag” laws that allow families to ask courts to take guns away from domestic abusers and others who are a danger to themselves and others.
In 2019, our community endured a tragic shooting at Saugus High School that took two innocent lives. As our Assemblywoman, Christy sprang into action to support families and mobilize resources. Christy is very proud to hold an F-rating from the National Rifle Association and is deeply committed to fighting in Congress to reduce gun violence and work towards a new era of gun safety where no community has to face the tragedy we have.
Christy supports commonsense reforms and investments in public safety to continue to reduce emergency response times, lower crime rates, and improve neighborhood security for all communities. Our law enforcement departments can better serve our communities with increased investments in effective community-based policing, racial bias training, and crisis intervention training along with more trained support professionals, especially mental health experts, within and/or in conjunction with departments. In Congress, Christy will work to pass reforms and provide funding to keep all of our communities safe.