Josh is a successful entrepreneur and business owner with a long, successful track record in tech and telecom startups. His work helped create hundreds of jobs locally and beyond.
Our community is a great place to live because it is a safe place to live, work, and raise our families. I’ll fight to get our cities and communities the tools they need to crack down on residential crime, gun violence, and organized retail theft. Together, we can make sure our neighborhoods are safe from crime and violence.
Homelessness is reaching crisis proportions in our state and our communities, and we need solutions that address the need for housing, mental health help, addiction treatment, and safe neighborhoods. In the Assembly I’ll work to make sure that we use our record budget surplus to fund the programs necessary to get people off the streets and into housing and treatment. I’ll also make sure that our cities and counties have the tools they need to enforce our laws and keep residents and neighborhoods safe from crime and violence. We must get the unhoused the help they need – from housing to mental health and addiction services – while dealing with the blight and crime associated with unlawful encampments.
The last few years have been tough on our communities, and inflation and price increases are only contributing further to the uncertaintly and volatility. We need to use all the tools at our disposal to create good jobs you can raise a family on. As a business owner, I’ve helped create hundreds of good paying jobs, many in our community. With record low employment, we need to focus not on just creating jobs, but making our existing jobs better. This means making access to education and uptraining easier and less expensive, ensuring our secondary and higher education graduates are being trained for the best jobs in our economy, and working to give workers a say on the job. In the Assembly, I’ll fight to make sure our schools have the resources they need, our higher education meets its promise of providing affordable college education to all graduating Californians, and our state is taking every step possible to help businesses create jobs we can all raise a family on.
We live in a wonderful part of California with a bountiful amount of beaches, parks, and wonderful weather. With nearly 10% of the US population set to visit California beaches in 2018, our coast is also the greatest economic driver in our community. For both our livelihood and our local economy it is our responsibility to protect open space and beaches from over development and pollution, and expand access to them for our communities and future generations. In the Assembly I will fight to crack down on polluters, ensure that our coastlines are not marred by ill-informed development, and work to increase access to parks and open space for all residents of our communities.
As an entrepreneur, I’m passionate about building companies and creating jobs. My business experience over the last two decades has shown that job growth is directly tied to implementing bold and out-of-the-box thinking. In the legislature, I’ll work to make sure our government is a true partner for creative and innovative businesses, both large and small, and works to nourish their ability to create new opportunities for our community. We all know the best jobs come from the best employers, and I’ll work closely to attract and retain private industry by implementing a regulatory framework poised for growth.
As a father with children in local public schools, I understand the anxiety parents feel about the quality of their children’s education. With so many young people falling between the cracks, we’ve become too focused on a political relationship with public schools instead of a partnership focused squarely focused on results for our students. That’s why I want to focus on fully funding our locals schools, increasing parent involvement and volunteering, and creating accountability to parents and students that will allow us to make the informed decisions necessary to improve faltering schools. Our schools are not a political battlefield – they are the nursery of our future and deserve our undivided commitment to their success.
We live in a digital world, where daily life may involve the convenience of mobile apps, social media, and online commerce. Unfortunately data breaches and hacking happen with little consequence, and advertisers monetize our digital behavior without our knowledge or control. As a business executive in the tech space, I recognize the tremendous benefits and conveniences of the digital world. Yet we are also paying a huge cost for our most precious information to be stored elsewhere, and the consequences of poor security are high. Our government has an obligation to make certain our data is secure, provide simpler and easier mechanisms for us to understand who is using our accessing our data, and to opt out if we choose. I am particularly interested in protecting children by enabling parents to have stronger controls over their kids’ digital footprint.