Len Fernandes

@RBReich Your tired socialist ideology is the opposite of democracy. You have one answer for all problems: punish success & let govt take more. A “one-time” 5% wealth tax is legalized theft from people who earned it to feed a bloated Sacramento machine that's wasted billions.@SteveHiltonx

Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax. Don't fall for their fearmongering. A one-time, 5% tax on their excessive wealth is essential to funding what millions of Californians need — and to preserving our democracy.

The CALIFORDABLE plan: ✅$3 Gas ✅Cut your electric bills in half ✅First $100k tax free ✅No more free healthcare for illegal immigrants, lowering healthcare costs for you ✅A home you can afford to buy It’s time to take our state back!

We have the same president in all 50 states. The same federal policies. The same international situation. But ONLY California has the highest cost of living in the country. An average of $35,000 extra a year - ENTIRELY due to Democrat policies.

@katieporterca Tax the big guy more. Sounds noble until collectivists like you decide our “small business” is too successful. CA doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem & you are the problem. Punishing companies for growing is exactly how you drive more jobs & investment away.

California currently has a flat 8.84% corporate tax. Whether a company makes $100 or $1 billion in profit, the rate is the same. It’s time for a tax code that recognizes the difference between a local shop and a global giant.

What Gavin Newsom doesn’t want you to know is that he spent nearly $10 BILLION California taxpayer dollars on healthcare for illegal immigrants to make that graph.

@ENERGY California governor Gavin Newsom & his supermajority are making CA unliveable with record taxes. Gas taxes (just one example) at 70.9¢/gal more than double the national avg. Time to throw the tea overboard & end one-party rule that can tax at will! #VoteThemOut @SteveHiltonx

The truth on California’s gas taxes & fees: Californians pay the HIGHEST gas taxes in America—70.9¢/gal, more than DOUBLE the national average.

@katieporterca Ms Porter: Perhaps you need a trendy acronym to define what has happened in this state under Gov Newsom and his supermajority. How about SAGA. It's a nice play on words. SAGA = Socialists Are Gutting America

If there was any doubt what this race is about, now it's certain: It's California values against MAGA. I'm running because voters are tired of the same old political games when the stakes are so much higher. They deserve a governor they can trust to fight for regular people, not just push policy agendas that only benefit corporate interests and the richest of the rich. I'm the only leading Democrat in this race who's never taken corporate PAC money or profited off corporate greed, and I've taken on Trump and his cronies and won. Join me: secure.actblue.com/donate/social_…

@FoodDudd2099 @CAgovernor @SteveHiltonx Exactly!

@SierraTechPR @CAgovernor @SteveHiltonx And also tell that to the thousands of employees affected by the moves out of CA. Newsom seems to forget the small people trying to make a living that are losing their jobs because of his and the CA Democrats’ policies.

Forget the California “exodus” narrative. Companies KEEP BETTING on California. Investors are overwhelmingly backing the innovation and ideas coming out of the Golden State — far more than ANY other state — because the future happens here first.

@GavinNewsom Bloomberg’s “Newsom economic maestro” story is💯 propaganda. Cherry-picked GDP & VC stats don’t hide CA’s highest state income & gas taxes, failed housing, homelessness, infrastructure & supermajority-run state. If things are so great, why are families & employers still fleeing?

Things you won't see on Fox News tonight: The California “doom loop” is a fantasy. They’ve been wrong for years. California just became the #1 performing economy not just among all states -- but among ANY developed nation.

A new report titled “California’s Economic Performance Review 2025” paints an absolutely damning picture of our state’s decline during Newsom’s governorship: -Highest unemployment rate in the nation at 5.5%, with over 1 million unemployed workers -181,700 private sector jobs lost in 2025 and 432,900 private jobs lost the last three years, with almost all new job growth coming from government -1.9 unemployed workers per job opening, the worst ratio in the country, with layoffs and separations up by 57% in 2025 -Net business establishments in 2025 down almost 90 percent since before Newsom took office, with almost all new firms being sole proprietorships with no employees -highest cost of living of any state, with 6 of the 10 most expensive metropolitan areas in the country -Electricity rates nearly double the rest of the country for homes and almost triple for industry, along with highest in the nation gas prices -Highest poverty rate in the nation at 16.4% -1.9 million residents lost to other states the last seven years, including 409,000 workers lost in job-to-job migration over five years -Budget growth of 68.2% since 2019, with a structural deficit that is now $20–35 billion annually -Nearly a 50 percent drop in the number of high earners filing tax returns over $10 million the last five years

🚨CBS News investigation on California gas prices reveals the reality of what closing refineries, high taxation, and the green new scam leads to: cbsnews.com/news/californi…

@katieporterca Clueless socialist Katie Porter: you can’t print money, that’s a crime, but you can squeeze taxpayers until you run out of other people's money to buy votes. Free tuition isn’t a right, it’s a taxpayer-funded scam. @SteveHiltonx

Higher education in California was a public right for 100 years before Ronald Reagan turned it into a private financial burden. As Governor, I will restore the California Promise to ensure every resident can attend a UC or CSU tuition-free.

California’s image problem isn’t a branding issue - it’s a series of policy failures driven by Gavin Newsom and his liberal allies in Sacramento and DC. Sky-high gas prices. Crushing cost of living. Rising crime. Homelessness out of control. A failing energy grid. Families and businesses aren’t leaving by accident - they’re being pushed out. Fixing California means reversing these failed policies. But instead, Gavin Newsom wants to blow $19 million on a PR campaign to distract from the damage. If things were actually improving, they wouldn’t need to spin it.

@CAgovernor Thoughts & prayers? Really? CA is drowning in one of the highest tax burdens in the USA, housing costs thru the roof, a $125B boondoggle train with no completed tracks while homelessness and fraud scandals fester. Calling critics "deranged" doesn’t fix reality.” @StevenHiltonx

Thoughts and prayers for everyone suffering from CALIFORNIA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME this morning. California's economy is pulling ahead and growing faster than the ENTIRE NATION!

@america The only way to stop this taxpayer scam is to turn off the spigot. That spigot = voters who keep giving Newsom & his supermajority power to waste billions. They now want $125B more for high-speed rail, more than Amtrak ever got still be $90B short! Wake up voters! @SteveHiltonx

California now says they don’t have enough money to finish building their high-speed rail system and are asking for $125 billion more. CBS: “That’s more funding than Amtrak has received in its history, and still leaves a shortfall of roughly $90 billion.”

I am very glad we cut off all federal funding for CA High-Speed Rail. This is the most important step for terminating the project and sparing our taxpayers $125 billion.

@nettermike @SteveHiltonx The future of California if voters keep checking the party line boxes. Unless voters wake up and stop handing Gov Newsom and his supermajority unchecked power year after year, don't act shocked when Sacramento takes more & more from you with almost every bill they try to pass.

🚨 WOW. California governor candidate Steve Hilton (R) @SteveHiltonx exposes that Gavin Newsom and Democrats shoved a $1,350 PER MONTH CHARGE for 20 years on every new single family home into a bill "They snuck it into the bill that was supposed to SOLVE their housing crisis!" "Vehicle Miles Travelled, and it's yet another sneaky, stealthy way that the Democrats in charge of California want to gouge you for the crime of driving your car." "They're trying to punish single-family homes. They want to stop single-family homes from being built, and so they're going to put this charge on it, VMT, because if you build a new home, people are going to drive to their new home. That's vehicle miles travelled." "They are trying to sneak in a charge, wait for it, of $1,350 per month for 20 years on every new single-family home. And this is in the bill, AB130, that Gavin Newsom said would solve the housing crisis. They don't want to solve the housing crisis." California needs to wake up and vote red for once!

@RepVinceFong The real gouging may have came from Newsom & the Democrat supermajority, but the bigger problem isn’t them — it’s voters who keep handing them unchecked power year after year, then act shocked when Sacramento takes more & more from taxpayers every time you fill up your tank.

For years, Gavin Newsom and Sacramento Democrats blamed everyone but themselves for California’s sky-high gas prices. Now, another report confirms what we’ve known all along: these prices aren’t an accident—they’re the direct result of their liberal policies, excessive regulations, and crushing taxes. It’s time for Gavin and his allies to look in the mirror.