California Open Letters

From a constituent in Venice, CA

Unconscionable Spending on Trump’s Ballroom

I just read the article about Trump’s plans to spend $1 billion on his ballroom: https://newrepublic.com/post/210320/what-donald-trump-plans-buy-ballroom-1-billion. It is ridiculous and unconscionable that we are even considering spending a dime on this after the perfectly functional White House wa

From a constituent in El Dorado Hills, CA

Vote Yes on the Plug-in Solar Bill SB 868!

Please support SB 868 which would let consumers use portable “Balcony Solar panels” without utility red tape. SB 868 will help make electricity more affordable for renters and homeowners alike in all housing types including apartments, mobile homes, and single family houses. SB 868 treats a Plug‐I

From a constituent in West Sacramento, CA

Support limits on corporate election spending

I'm writing to strongly urge you to support, or introduce, legislation in California similar to the bill recently passed in Hawaii limiting corporate spending in state elections. At some point we need to honestly ask whether democratic representation still belongs primarily to citizens, or whether

From a constituent in Forest Knolls, CA

How to win back young voters

Democratic leadership seems still to be imagining that the way to win elections is to back moderate candidates. That policy ignores young people who are the voting block of the future. My grandson and his friends are being turned off by “politics as usual”. Candidates like Randy Villeges inspire t

From a constituent in North Hollywood, CA

Please renew Stop the Hate to combat ascendant anti-Black hate

The Stop the Hate Program is needed now more than ever. In the past two weeks we’ve seen an explosive rollback of the Civil Rights movement by the Supreme Court and Southern legislatures, and a Republican legislator just admitted Rep. Clyburn’s South Carolina district was redrawn for being too Black

From a constituent in Pasadena, CA

Oppose the 23% NASA Budget Cut — Protect American Space Science Leadership

Block the White House's proposed 23% cut to NASA's budget and fight to restore and increase NASA science funding. Reducing fiscal year 2027 spending to $18.8 billion — a number Congress already rejected last year — would gut missions like the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, OSIRIS-APEX, and Mars Odyssey,

From a constituent in Los Altos, CA

Protect the Presidio. My favorite park in SF is the Presidio. The well maintained and accessible trails are wheelchair friendly which made it possible to bring my family when dad recovered from surgery. The food trucks and cafe means I don’t have to pack food everytime. There’s easy parking. A beaut

From a verified voter in San Francisco, CA

First, I want the Congressmember to support the PREDICT Act, a bipartisan bill that will ban members of Congress, the president, vice president, and senior executive branch officials from trading on prediction markets tied to political events and policy decisions. We deserve a government that works

From a verified voter in San Francisco, CA

First, I want the Senator to support the PREDICT Act, a bipartisan bill that will ban members of Congress, the president, vice president, and senior executive branch officials from trading on prediction markets tied to political events and policy decisions. We deserve a government that works for us,

From a constituent in San Francisco, CA

I’m writing to urge you to use every tool at your disposal to fight any budget reconciliation bill that shovels more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol. Republicans already voted to give them the budget of a small army last year, and now they're trying to use the reconciliation process to giv

From a constituent in San Francisco, CA

I strongly oppose Republicans’ so-called “Ballroom Bill,” which gives more money to ICE, CBP, and Trump’s hated ballroom while adding 71B to the deficit. I will work to vote out every lawmaker who supports it. Americans are dying for lack of healthcare, we can’t afford groceries, we can’t pay our ut

From a constituent in San Francisco, CA

I want the Senator to support the PREDICT Act, a bipartisan bill (https://substack.com/redirect/b6e2ace5-5836-4650-b568-600e12d03599?j=eyJ1IjoiYXlnanAifQ.T6UfmtUSHaSzROql4dk0P8hiSMgmNaM7190u4j1jmJo) that will ban members of Congress, the president, vice president, and senior executive branch officia

From a verified voter in San Pedro, CA

I am very concerned about climate change and the impact it will have on our children’s future. It has been deeply alarming to see the Trump administration offer payouts to energy companies that agree to stop their offshore wind projects and invest in fossil fuel development. These deals are not o

From a verified voter in Thousand Oaks, CA

I would like you to support the PREDICT Act. I would like you to oppose the so-called Ballroom Bill. No insider trading! No money for ICE, CBP!

From a verified voter in Pebble Beach, CA

Both Montana and Hawaii are both working on a way around the ridiculous Citizens United ruling. It is something we should consider. Corporations derive their power from the charters granted by the state in which they are domiciled. These states are looking to rewrite the laws governing the activitie

From a verified voter in Los Gatos, CA

Use your lame duck power to get our money back from the gouging gas companies. Chevron is busy blaming you for its high prices. The companies are taking advantage of Trump's Epstein war for this windfall. Use the windfall tax law and get that money back.

From a constituent in El Dorado Hills, CA

Investigate and Stop the Trump Administration's Public Land Grazing Giveaway

Investigate the Trump administration's emergency grazing expansion and put a stop to it. The Bureau of Land Management fast-tracked a plan to open 24 million acres of federal land to cattle grazing — bypassing required consultation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species A

From a constituent in Los Angeles, CA

I’m a voter who is very worried about climate change and the impacts it will have on ALL of our children’s future.   It has been deeply alarming to see the Trump administration offer payouts to energy companies that agree to stop their offshore wind projects and invest in fossil fuel development. T

From a verified voter in Albany, CA

Accountability is Essential

The United States taxpayers have a right to know if Kash Patel used any of our funds to pay for his ridiculous personalized bourbon bottles. He should be investigated and if any tax payer money was used to pay for these bottles, he should be forced to pay it back. We need accountability to be a pr

From a verified voter in Los Gatos, CA

Please for the love of God get RFK out of the way of the actual medical professionals at the CDC and HHS. We do not need another pandemic or weak policies regarding public health. Covid was a disaster. Hantavirus has a much higher fatality percentage. This is not a game. If we act like it is, we a

From a constituent in North Hollywood, CA

Please do all possible to block election deniers from judicial appointments

Please do everything in your power to delay appointments of 2020 election denialists and prevail upon the likes of Chuck Grassley and Thom Tillis to ultimately block their confirmations. The lower Judiciary has been the best and last institutional line of defense against the Trump Republican authori

From a constituent in Sonora, CA

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of acres of national forest with

From a verified voter in San Diego, CA

Support universal childcare and paid parental leave for all Americans.

From a constituent in Los Angeles, CA

This is probably obvious to anyone outside of this ridiculous administration that we’re cursed with but don’t allow them to strip citizenship of any kind from anyone just because they’re petty, racist xenophobes. they’re ruining everyone’s lives already, so please don’t let it get worse.

From a verified voter in Saratoga, CA

Reform the Supreme Court - Start Now.

The Supreme Court needs structural reform, and I want you to act on it. That, in my view will likely need to include more justices to the Court, limiting the terms of their appointments, and removing by forced resignation, or impeachment the worst offenders of our Constitution. Chief Justice Rober