Michael Gunning

California is unaffordable for working families.  As Insurance Commissioner, I’ll fight to lower costs and bring transparency to insurance pricing — to make our state more affordable for all of us.

I encourage everyone to watch this incredible documentary about one of the best to ever play the game, someone near and dear to my heart, and my former General Manager for the Lakers - the legendary Jerry West! Watch now on Amazon!

Had the honor of swearing in my longtime friend, Arnold Hardy, as an on-call Deputy Sheriff. Arnold retired as a Captain from the California Highway Patrol after a distinguished career, and it didn’t take long for him to realize he wasn’t quite done yet. We had a good laugh during the ceremony, but in all seriousness, it’s great to have someone with his experience, professionalism, and work ethic joining our family. I’ve known Arnold for a long time, and I’m glad he finally made it to the right side!

"In November of 2018, just days before President George Herbert Walker Bush drew his final breath at his Houston home at the extraordinary age of ninety-four, something happened that almost no major news outlet ever stopped to fully tell: former President Barack Obama quietly made a private visit to Bush's bedside, the two men sitting together in the kind of gentle, unguarded conversation that transcends party lines and political rivalry entirely, with no cameras, no press releases, and no political theater of any kind. It was a moment of pure human decency, and it was entirely in keeping with the character of a man who had devoted more than seventy years of his life to serving a country he loved beyond all personal ambition. George H.W. Bush had enlisted in the United States Navy on his eighteenth birthday in 1942, becoming the youngest commissioned naval aviator in American history at the time, flying fifty-eight combat missions over the Pacific before being shot down near Chichi Jima island, rescued by a submarine while two of his crewmates perished, an experience so shattering that he rarely spoke of it in public for decades. He went on to serve as a congressman, Ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the CIA, Vice President, and then the forty-first President of the United States, and yet those who knew him best said the title he wore most comfortably and most joyfully was simply 'Dad' and 'Granddad.' When Michelle Obama wrote her tribute after his passing, calling him an extraordinary example of decency and a guiding light, she was echoing a sentiment that cut across every political boundary in America, because even Bill Clinton, the man who had defeated Bush in the 1992 election, said with unmistakable emotion that he would forever treasure their unlikely and deeply genuine friendship. Bush's last recorded words before he slipped away were spoken to his son George W., who had called to say goodbye, and the former president replied with complete simplicity: 'I love you too.' Some lives are so full of grace that even their final chapter leaves the whole world a little better than before.