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California is a magical place...
A wonder of the world. The fourth largest economy. The home of Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
But we are also the home of millions of families barely making it, or forced to consider leaving. Sky high housing prices and the nation’s worst homelessness. A middle class income no longer provides a middle class life.
And now, Donald Trump is weaponizing the federal government against our state—cutting off funding for essential services, hurting our economy, threatening our democracy and way of life.
Our people are inventing the future. And yet, too much of our government seems stuck in the past. Billions of wasted taxpayer dollars. Bad customer service. Failing to protect public safety and public health. Blocking rather than building the things we need. Making life more expensive, not more affordable.
The job of our next state senator has to be listening then leading, taking your concerns to Sacramento, and bringing people together to solve problems.
This generation of Californians may be the first that ends up worse off than their parents. We can’t accept that.
We need to fix this.
My Priorities
We need to make it easier and more affordable to live here
Easier to find an affordable place to live, easier to operate a small business, easier to build the infrastructure we need. We need more workforce housing so that our public servants don’t have to drive hours to their jobs. We need to reform rules and permitting so that businesses that are barely hanging on can actually make it in our state. We need to enable the transmission of clean energy so that we can lower sky high electric bills. And we need to fight for everyone to have access to high quality health care–despite Trump passing the biggest cut ever to Medicaid, which covers more than one in three Californians, including a majority of our kids.
We need to take on crime and homelessness
We can’t go back to mass incarceration…but at the same time, we shouldn’t tolerate smash and grabs, property crime, and violent assaults. I supported Prop 36 because I believe the pendulum swung too far in favor of permitting lawlessness. Feeling safe shouldn’t be a privilege reserved for those with private security–but a right for all Californians, in every community. And there is nothing progressive about allowing anyone to sleep on the street. I want to redouble our support for nonprofit organizations that have been on the ground for years, delivering results with transparency, accountability, and action.
We need to focus on the future
Too many in politics want to re-fight the battles of the past. But we’re living in a new world: accelerating climate dangers, transformative technologies, creeping authoritarianism. We need to pull together and make sure our kids live in a safe, free, and prosperous California–where they can build lives of purpose and meaning. Our schools need to prepare them for the 2050’s, not the 1950’s. Our leaders need to take on threats to kids’ mental and physical health, including the uniquely American threat of routine gun violence. Regulation needs to strike a balance between protecting our people and protecting our economy. And as we rebuild places like the Palisades and Malibu, we must make them more resilient–and make sure insurance is available, affordable, and actually covers the costs of the insured.
We need to fight hate and division
I have the old-fashioned view that the job of elected leaders–especially in a big and complicated state like California–is to bring people together, not tear them apart…to call on the best in our neighbors, not profit from polarization. I have spent years taking on the scourge of antisemitism–and I will help lead that fight in the Legislature. And I will also stand up against Asian Hate, which reared its ugly head in 2020 and never really went away. Against racism. Against what our Latino brothers and sisters are facing right now with these unconstitutional ICE raids. I will stand up for the diversity that actually makes California great.
About Me
My grandparents lived the California Dream. They moved here at a time when anything seemed possible. I grew up with a wonderful family in the heart of West LA, and never expected to run for office.
I delayed college to work for Hillary Clinton, and became a journalist to cover politics, from presidential campaigns to the Great Recession, producing Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin and stories from Politico to The Atlantic.
I also became a lawyer and launched two tech startups.
When Trump became president the first time, I decided I couldn’t just observe politics anymore, I had to work to change politics. And from Sec. Pete Buttigieg to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto to Rep. Shontel Brown, I helped candidates I believe in.
Now that Trump is president again, and with the enormous challenges we face, I am running to get things done, to make it easier and more affordable to live here, and to improve our public services.
As the husband of an educator, and father of two young kids growing up in our district, this isn’t just political to me.
It’s personal.