Every person in this district should have the same voice in Sacramento. That is why Sean Frame runs corporate free, accepting zero dollars from the industries that lobby the Legislature.

The money decides what gets written into law. Too much of California's legislative agenda now arrives at the Capitol already drafted inside a lobbying shop. Sean's opponent has taken more than $100,000 from oil and gas, and argues California cannot act on emissions because we are only one percent of the problem. A perfect example of what happens when elected officials put profit over constituents.

Sean is funded by the people, and he will work for them.

This district builds plenty of housing. Very little of it is built for the people already living here, where a school bus driver or a senior on a fixed income actually live. 

California is three million units short, and nearly all of that gap sits below 80 percent of area median income., The fastest growing group of Californians losing their housing is now people 55 and older. 

Sean knows where those projects die. Developer fees carry a build most of the way, then commercial banks refuse the last 20 percent, and the site goes to market rate instead. A state public bank would close that gap and let California finance its own bonds, keeping billions a year in our general fund. Sean also supports banning private equity from buying single-family homes.

Climate change and affordability are directly linked. Sean and his family moved because the fire risk kept rising and the insurance stopped being affordable. That is what climate change is in this district now. It is a line on a household budget.

Sean's opponent says California is only one percent of global emissions, so acting is pointless, and that we should build nuclear instead of renewables. Sean's answer: there is no cheaper electron than the sun. Solar and storage are the least expensive power California can build, we can build it at scale, and China is doing exactly that while we argue about it. Every year we wait, is costing US money and handing the next economy to somebody else. 

Sean wants that build-out here, with union labor, starting in the neighborhoods of this district carrying the worst heat and the dirtiest air.

A third of families in Sacramento and Placer counties cannot cover the basics, and most of them are working. 

Teachers used to be able to live in the communities where they taught. The aides and bus drivers who keep a school open used to earn a living wage in the town they worked in. 

Sean wants homes built where people work, so the teacher in your child's classroom is not driving two hours each way to get there, and wages that track what it actually costs to live here. His measure of whether California is getting this right is straightforward: can a person working full time in this district afford to stay in it.

Nine years on a school board, and the years since at a bargaining table, taught Sean where the money actually goes. 

California requires districts to put 55 percent of spending into the classroom, and it lets districts apply for a waiver out of that requirement. A waiver granted to one district becomes the comparison used against the districts next to it. The aides and bus drivers who keep a school open end up earning below the living wage of the town they work in. 

Flat percentage raises do the rest. Five percent is $12,500 to a $250,000 administrator and $2,500 to a $50,000 aide. Repeat that for thirty years and the gap is permanent. 

Sean's first fix is about how the money gets allocated once it reaches the school site, and it does not begin with a tax increase. Bring the floor up, bring the ceiling down, and the difference lands in the classroom. A school can hire more aides when the principal is not making $300,000. The same test applies to community colleges and to the CSU and UC systems. 

On the board, Sean delivered broadband for all, support for students facing housing insecurity, and the first dual language immersion program on the west slope of the Sierra.

In healthcare, the top end of the price is infinite. Ask anyone what they would pay to save the life of someone they love and the answer is infinity. Insurers and hospitals understand that, and a market built on it moves toward that number and never away from it. 

California has spent years picking around the edges. Premium subsidies get taken away. Suing hospitals over prices adds cost without touching what drives it. 

Sean supports a California single payer plan because it is the cheapest and fastest way to get costs under control. Prices only come down when there is a straight line between the people paying for care and the people providing it. Every other country on earth worked this out a long time ago.