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From Crisis to Care

We need a California where Health & Housing are not stock options, but Simple COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS.

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Our Core Principles

• We bring the people’s agenda to the Governor’s desk. The California Democratic Party’s super-majority trifecta has blocked life-saving legislation on healthcare, housing, the economy, education, climate, and more.

  • WE END THE ROADBLOCKS.

• We Californians should own our government, not the billionaires. Decades of crooked politics have turned our state into a money and land grab for multinational corporations and their bought politicians.

  • WE STOP THEIR GRIFT.

• We reject the divisive use of identities and ideologies that have been weaponized to isolate us from each other by the current system’s institutions.

  • WE FIGHT IN SOLIDARITY AND COMMUNITY.

• We build movements to empower communities with electoral power, putting the Green Party in the hands of working people to use in our fight FOR the working class.

  • WE WIN TOGETHER.

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Platform: Housing & Homelessness

The Problem:

• Homelessness has risen by 50% in 5 years while most spending has gone to real estate developers & NGOs.
• We cannot solve homelessness with sweeps, vagrancy laws, and the criminalization of poverty.
• A $100 increase in median rent is estimated to raise homelessness by 9%.

Our Solutions: We will extend housing and care, building a system of universal security. This can dramatically reduce homelessness at a far lower cost than the $25 billion spent by Newsom’s Administration.

• Reclaiming Public Goods: Use eminent domain for egregious, corrupt private appropriation of public goods.
• Progressive Taxation of Vacant Properties: Target corporate and private equity companies that own large numbers of empty properties.
• Homes Not Profits: Acquired properties become state-managed, mixed-income, social housing operated at cost, not for profit.
• Fair Rents Now: Immediate rent freeze, aggressive rent control, and enforcement.
• Path to Home Ownership: Mortgage forgiveness and state first-time homeowner programs to bring homeownership back within reach.

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Platform: Healthcare for All

Healthcare should be accessible to all residents of California without regard to income or zip code. With the world’s third-highest GDP, California has the resources.

We will cut out the parasitic middleman of private health insurance and redirect those funds from shareholder profits and CEO salaries to actual healthcare.

The Butch Ware campaign unequivocally supports a state-based single-payer healthcare system through the CalCare program.

CalCare Principles:

• Universal Coverage
• A Single Public Program
• Fully Comprehensive Benefits
• Freedom to Choose Your Care Provider
• Free at the Point of Service
• Just Transition for industry workers
• Patient Care Based on Patient Need

How We Do It: We will declare a healthcare emergency and implement CalCare by executive order. It will be paid for by:

• Taxing the wealthy and large corporations’ profits.
• Reaping the benefits of preventive care.
• No insurance premiums, copays, deductibles, or coinsurance.

We will also encourage more healthcare professionals by making state college tuition-free and reinvest funds to build more hospitals and clinics in underserved areas.

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Platform: Divestment from Genocide & War Crimes

It will be a top priority to ensure California is divested from all genocides and other war crimes globally.

We will create an executive task force to investigate state-based financial and political ties to foreign regimes and corporations engaged in or aiding genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes.

A Butch Ware Administration will:

• Veto any spending legislation that is not divested.
• Direct the State Treasurer and other agencies to divest.
• Appoint board members who prioritize divestment.
• By executive order, adjust or freeze any non-divested spending.
• Reinvest those funds to support the immediate needs of Californians.

We will also direct that existing anti-BDS laws not be enforced and encourage the legislature to repeal them.

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