Gloria Romero

Taxes / Budget As a governing board member, Gloria will push for serious oversight, real consequences, and basic accountability. Taxpayers deserve to know their dollars are helping Californians learn job skills, not disappearing into a broken system. Environment / Energy From Paradise to Malibu, the Palisades, and Altadena, families have paid the price for bad policy, slow permitting, and leaders who care more about process than people. Gloria rejects a “Let Them Burn” malfeasance. Gloria will be a strong, common-sense voice for fire prevention, smarter land management, and faster rebuilding when disaster strikes. Education And let’s be clear: no student should be threatened with who they are or what they believe. Jewish students, and students of every faith and background, deserve safety, dignity, and equal treatment on campus. No student should ever have their life or physical safety threatened with who they are. Gloria will hold administrators and university officials accountable to ensure non-discrimination in access to every campus and academic programming. Education If you’re admitted to college, you should be able to do college-level work. That’s not controversial, it’s common sense. Gloria will fight to restore merit in admissions, protect academic standards, and stop setting students up for failure. Education And this starts earlier. If students graduate high school unable to read or do basic math, that’s not compassion, it’s failure. Gloria will fight to more fully integrate our K-12 system with higher ed so that our education system is, truly, a public education system for kids from Day 1, which actually prepares kids for college, careers, and life—not just a “public works” program for adults in the system. Environment / Energy We can protect the environment and protect communities. Gloria will collaborate with federal partners where it makes sense, cut through red tape, and push policies that put people, not paperwork, first. Gloria will also work with federal partners to safely provide for uncovering untapped energy reserves. Environment / Energy The Lieutenant Governor plays a major role in California’s land and coastal policy, and right now, California is burning while bureaucracy holds meetings. That’s unacceptable. Gloria will lead on restructuring and streamlining commissions that answer to Sacramento special interests, rather than looking out for the needs of people and communities wanting to rebuild their lives. Education Gloria believes that California’s community colleges are “the Ellis Islands of higher education” and are supposed to be the gateway to opportunity, not an open invitation for fraud. Recent reports show widespread abuse of the application system, and that’s stealing resources from real students and working people.