San Francisco is a progressive city. We are dedicated to environmental and social justice, climate protection, affordable housing, better public schools, accessible healthcare, and anti-racism. I share those ideals—I live them every day. I am dedicated to them—heart and soul—but I'm not a progressive in the policies that reflect the movement today. I have my eyes open. I'm looking ahead to what we can be—as a city, state, nation, and world.
- Bill Shireman
Prosperity can be shared broadly, with lower taxes and higher performance, if we tax things we don’t want, like pollution and waste, and cut taxes on things we do, like income and small business. Learn more about carbon pricing and the circular economy.
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Schools can be improved by giving teachers more freedom to teach, parents more schools to choose from, and students more opportunities to discover and develop their distinctive skills, passions, and identities. Learn how nonprofit charter schools and new options that harness diversity can serve California’s diverse student communities.
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Homes can be more affordable by empowering homeowners and renters to create more housing in established diverse walkable neighborhoods, built for safety but unconstrained by outdated codes and zoning laws that favor overpriced housing by developers and unions with political power on the left, right, and center. Learn about living cities and resilient communities.
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Small businesses can’t flourish until we loosen the tightropes that we wrap around local retailers, restaurants, service providers, start-ups, and small businesses of low income immigrants and residents - long overdue changes to unleash people to create organic local businesses that cultivate real communities.
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Crime can be reduced and justice enhanced if we recriminalize property theft, divert homeless addicts to treatment; end zoning, codes, and drug laws with racist origins; let police be police and counselors counsel; incentivize local merchants,, churches, synagogues, mosques, and spiritual centers that offer neighborhood support and provide creative solutions for individuals suffering from addiction and homelessness; and enact bipartisan criminal justice reform at the state and federal level, to end mass incarceration by race, gender, orientation, mental illness, and addiction. Entrenched interest groups block these bipartisan solutions today. By working together, we can make changes that transform lives.
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Stop pitting Californians against each other. Big and small businesses, home renters and owners, tech workers and shop keepers, the rich, middle, and working classes, religious, spiritual, and college-educated, progressive, liberal, moderate, and conservative, LGBT and Q - we are all a part of California. Our differences can be exploited to divide us. But those same differences can also be the defining parts that make us whole - and one of the most creative, most diverse, connected, and consequential cultures on the planet.
There are real solutions to every challenge we face. The problem is they cost too little. Effective solutions reduce costs across society—pricing pollution, rewarding prevention, enhancing health, reducing crime, assuring justice—all enrich our community as a whole. But that is of no interest to a political power-brokering industry that thrives by creating threats to vested interests and then extracting money to protect them.
That is the system I am running against. I can't lose, because no matter the outcome on Election Day, you and others will be with me. We're in this together, all of us, the 100%. We have all the money and all the power, and we will use it for good. It's just common sense.
Governing is the job of the broad center—conservatives, centrists, and progressives who have common sense, who opened their eyes to reality and understand nuance and complexity. I am running to reach the silenced majority—the 70% governing majority that can solve our problems and advance our ideals.