In the last couple years our news has been full of stories about billions of dollars of waste in Sacramento. The Unemployment Office, for instance, paid out over $31 billion in fraudulent claims while Californians, unemployed because of COVID, couldn’t get the money they needed to buy groceries or pay the rent. They don’t care about wasting your money… I do, and here are my solutions:

- Require a public, nonpartisan audit of every department’s spending and
  effectiveness every year, and publish the results so we can see if we are getting our
  money’s worth.
 

- Increase transparency by forcing the state to do what other governments do: put all
  spending on line, in real time, on an easy to use website.
 

- Prosecute elected officials and government workers who use taxpayer money as
  their own private piggy bank, staying at fancy hotels and eating at expensive
  restaurants while we pick up the tab.