Sean Frame is the only corporate-free candidate in this race, accepting zero donations from corporate PACs or individual corporations. While his opponents are funded by big business, developers, pharmaceutical companies, and charter schools, Sean can’t be bought. He’s funded exclusively by working people, and won’t sell us out to corporate profiteers.

We are experiencing a housing crisis because our government has chosen landlord’s profits over keeping people housed. In some parts of the District that have been historically redlined, the divestment in the community is visible and staggering. Sean will fight to build more affordable housing, ban Wall Street private equity from owning single-family homes, bring back rent control, fund mental health services, and declare a state of emergency in housing.

Sean understands firsthand that climate change is no longer an abstract problem – he was forced to relocate his family from their home due to the increasing fire risk and soaring cost of fire insurance. Some of the most dangerous environmental justice zones and urban heat islands are located in this District. Sean will fight for solutions that prioritize people over corporate profits, bring carbon emissions to net zero, and rapidly accelerate the greening of our economy with sustainable, good-paying union jobs.

A recent study found that one third of Sacramento and Placer families can’t afford the basics. Rent, healthcare, and food costs are out of control, but politicians don’t get it. How is anybody supposed to survive and raise a family on wages that don’t keep pace? Sean will fight for living wages and to bring down skyrocketing costs so that we can all afford not just to live, but truly thrive.

When Sean was elected to the school board, he put his values to work by delivering broadband for all, support for students facing housing insecurity, and a dual language immersion program. Sean understands education policy, and he knows that our schools aren’t failing – our leaders are failing them through lack of investment—particularly in the neighborhoods where historic divestment and systemic racism have brought out the sinister meaning of the words “Separate but Equal.” Sean will fight for fully funded neighborhood schools, a more robust and stable funding source for community colleges, and a CSU and UC system that doesn’t continuously underfund faculty and staff and raise tuition while paying huge salaries to administrators. Together we can restore the promise that quality public education for all is the foundation of a prosperous society and a thriving democracy.

Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege reserved for the wealthy. California is the 4th largest economy in the world, but we’ve given for-profit insurance companies and for-profit hospitals all of the power to decide who lives or dies. Sean knows this all too well as he could have died of melanoma because his doctor initially refused to provide a simple referral to a dermatologist. Meanwhile more than 50,000 people in California are going bankrupt every year due to medical debt. Sean supports creating a California-based, Single Payer/Medicare for All plan for ALL Californians. It’s time to focus on providing actual healthcare, not funding for insurance companies.