Bob Brunton is the only candidate working to improve education for all of our students by giving them choices to attend quality schools regardless of the income of their parents or the location of their home.
He wants to pay great teachers what they are worth and knows how to improve our schools and reduce wasteful redundant spending.
California allocates about 54% of its entire budget to education and we are not getting our monies worth. Too many students are failing. There are many reasons, but the primary reason is that our current educational system is greatly out of date and needs major reforms. California has over 1000 school districts, with 5 academic systems and they do not work well together. California once had the best educational system in the world but the foundation of that system was set up in the 1950’s. California is different now and it is time to reform and restructure.
Bob Brunton has 12 years of experience in educational governing. He was elected 3 time and served 12 years as Ohlone Community College Trustee. He knows what is needed, what is possible and how to get it done.
The Bob Brunton plan will improve the education of our children’s students and improve our adult career and technical education and our systems work together better, waste less money and provide more money to the classroom. And reduce taxes.
The Bay Area needs a vital, efficient, and effective mass transit system but it currently does not have one. Bob Brunton is the only candidate that knows how to greatly improve mass transit in our region and without raising taxes.
The Bay Area has over 25 mass transit agencies and they do not work well together and of those 25 only 2 have elected board members. A bad combination.
Bob Brunton will tirelessly work towards both improving mass transit and reducing the overbearing costs thru consolidation and improving cooperation, coordination and accountability.
The costs of getting things done is outrageously expensive and time consuming. To often the only winner were the lawyers. This must stop.
Bob Brunton has plans to improve the civil court system to make it more cost effective and to make justice be fairer. He will advocate for providing a Public Defender for low- and middle-income people and small businesses when defending themselves against the rich and powerful and foreign companies.,/
Bob will advocate for small claims court reforms that will allow the system to be a better choice for settling disputes.
The Burning Issue: When it comes to housing, although almost everyone has an opinion, there’s no real consensus as to what the core problem is. What is certain is that the government is the major reason behind our major housing problems. Worse yet, these problems are multilayered and complex. And most of the so-called solutions coming from the state level have not worked.
I suggest a different approach..
Too often cities focus on taking the money while being unwilling to take on the expense. Though they add jobs and new tax dollars, they’re unwilling to balance the housing, schools, and infrastructure. They then leave other cities — or worse, no one! — to handle the expense.
A viable climate change solution needs to be big and lasting — which means bipartisan legislation. I support the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act put forth by the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and would work to pass its equivalent in the California State Assembly. The policy will drive down America’s carbon pollution while unleashing American technology innovation and ingenuity.
Healthy Parks = Healthy People
Bob Brunton, his wife Elena, and their dog Vivaldi are all active supporters and visitors of our state parks.
Bob will advocate for both the growth of our park system and the improvement of our parks’ maintenance.
Bob Brunton stands ready to propose that each year, after you file your state taxes, the state will return to you several thank you gifts, and one of those will be a Day Pass to visit one of our many beautiful state parks. Our parks are there to be enjoyed and treasured. Californians should embrace this tradition for generations to come.
Here’s the plain truth: In California, we are not only taxed too much, we receive far too little for the money that we send to our government.
The information we receive about our state and local governments’ finances is too often needlessly complicated, to the point where a regular person cannot understand it. Even worse, it’s often presented in an unbalanced and outright disrespectful manner. Bob is going to Sacramento to start fixing these longstanding problems. And they must be fixed, because we have so many long-unmet needs.
Sacramento and the state government must get its financial house in order. It’s time for them to stop their wasteful and redundant spending before daring to ask the taxpayer for a dollar more.