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Okay. Can you cite the specific policies that are disliked? I'm open to reading. [/quote]

She is very weak on homelessness, which is probably one of the biggest electoral issues in the state. She won’t take a clear position on encampment management, which is a very hot button issue. She just talks in generalities about needing more housing but is vague about what that means. She wants to fully fund Section 8 but everyone knows that even if the federal government is okay with that, which it won’t be under Trump, there are very few landlords who want to be Section 8 landlords so it’s an empty promise. It comes across as an issue she is avoiding. I completely do not trust her to manage homelessness as an issue whatsoever as a governor as she has shown literally no thoughtfulness on the issue at all in her career.

On crime, also a hot-button issue, she’s been far-left. Combined with her policy positions (or rather lack thereof) on homelessness, she comes across as out of touch. Crime is an increasingly important issue here because the perception (and likely the reality) is that it is rising, in part because of the excesses of some of the 2020 era progressive policing laws she supported.

What I feel, and what I hear a lot of people say about her, is that she is too focused on showboating in hearings and building her personal brand. She’s invested in building her image nationally, probably why all these folks here are defending her so much, but not in actually helping her constituents. I think that’s why she lost against Schiff, who has a reputation of steadily working for Californians.  (And the temper tantrum she threw when she came in a distant third was disgraceful — like Trump, she claimed the election was rigged, insulting longtime dedicated public servants, didn’t call Schiff to congratulate him and concede. Just terrible sulking and tantruming, very Trumpish.)

It is really annoying to hear all these outsiders demanding we ignore yet more bad behavior from her, without understanding how weak her history actually is. She isn’t someone who gets much of anything done other than being loud in hearings, which might be fine for people aren’t her constituents but is hard on those of us who would be if she wins for governor. [/quote]

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