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California's crippling gas prices are inflated by excessive state taxes, Cap and Trade (CAPS) fees, carbon recapture mandates, restrictive fuel grade definitions, and CO₂ related rules that a Governor can suspend via emergency declaration freeing up supply and slashing costs immediately. As Governor, I will issue an emergency order to suspend all of these mandates, work to reopen the San Pablo Bay Pipeline (recently shut down and at risk of permanent closure) and pursue reopening as many shuttered refineries as possible, restoring in-state production capacity, reducing import dependence, stabilizing fuel availability, and avoiding further offshoring of emissions and jobs. My goal will be to make California fuels the lowest cost available, and restore the California capacity for transport and refining. My proposal for the establishment of the CCCA would fix more CO₂ than all of our current mandates combined and provide many other benefits. See this in the Smart Conservation Revival section.

California's electricity prices and power reliability suffer from the same regulatory burdens as transportation fuels: high Cap and Trade (CAPS) fees, carbon recapture mandates, restrictive CO₂ rules, and other greenhouse gas requirements that drive up costs for natural gas and other fuels used in power generation. As Governor, I will issue an emergency declaration to suspend these mandates—specifically CAPS fees, carbon recapture obligations, CO₂ definitions/rules, and related taxes or restrictions that impact natural gas-fired plants and grid stability—freeing up affordable generation capacity, reducing import reliance, and lowering bills for homes and businesses immediately. These same executive actions apply here as for transportation fuels (detailed in the Crush Fuel Costs section), ensuring consistent relief across energy sources while transitioning burdensome rules to market-friendly solutions. My proposal for the establishment of the CCCA would fix more CO₂ than all of our current mandates combined and provide many other benefits. See this in the Smart Conservation Revival section.

California's vast natural resources—forests, watersheds, and ecosystems—are threatened by wildfires, neglect, Pestilence (Bark Beetles have destroyed many acres of forests in the state) over-exploitation and mismanagement, yet we have the potential to restore nearly 15 million acres of impacted land while addressing environmental, water, youth, and fire risks simultaneously. I propose that we create and launch the New California Civilian Conservation Corps Alliance, or CCCA. With this, we would recruit and mobilize 100,000 of our young adults in a two-year voluntary, paid program (50,000 recruits each year) offering $1,600 per month, room and board, and a $30,000 completion bonus, usable for starting a business, buying a modular home, or investing in advanced educational modules.through partnerships with private sector companies, municipalities, Conservation Groups and NGOs from the areas of focus. These recruits will plant 3 billion trees, clear brush and create fire breaks for proactive wildfire prevention, and restore wetlands across California by 2051, naturally sequestering more CO₂ than all current mandates combined while delivering superior environmental results without top-down rules. This initiative:

An important part of this strategy is that this will NOT create a new State Agency to conduct this work, but will contract with local private sector, Municipal, NGO and existing conservation groups, including in recruiting and training volunteers.

Ending Water Scarcity Forever

California’s water crisis isn’t caused by natural scarcity alone, but rather by aging, outdated infrastructure designed and built for half of our current population years ago. Restrictive regulations, endless litigation, and vulnerable imports that force zero-sum fights between families, farms, and businesses are the result of counting on this aging infrastructure for all of California’s current and future needs. As Governor, I will end rationing and artificial shortages by inviting private-sector capital and innovation to create true water abundance that separates about 80% of domestic needs from agriculture as much as is practically possible. The centerpiece: a coastal chain from North to South of privately financed desalination plants delivering drought-proof water primarily to urban and domestic users. This frees current Sierra and Delta systems for mostly agricultural use and partially restores natural water flows to the Pacific. This will reduce drought-year pressure on agriculture and domestic use, and build statewide resilience without tax increases, new bureaucracy, or government expansion. This will be just the beginning step of a longer term plan to increase desalination when the future of cheap energy in the fom of fusion power becomes the standard in a couple of decades from now. When that age comes, then we can restore California's watershed flows substantially more, and finally re-invigorate our coastal biomes which have suffered from much reduced sediment and nutrient flows over the last two centuries.

How I would do this

From a Housing Crisis to Market Driven Abundance

Modular mini-homes factory produced by private companies and deployed on state-leased land become the fast, low-cost path to ownership, rebuilding prosperity for Gen Z, Gen Alpha, immigrants, the elderly, and every Californian. This would effectively embrace modular, factory-produced homes as a new class of residential product that can resolve much of the current supply shortage, estimated at about 3,500,000 homes. It would provide many jobs across California, keep our young people here and provide much needed housing for elderly, immigrant and impacted populations.

California's housing crisis is artificially driven by restrictive zoning, CEQA abuse, exclusionary local rules, rent controls, and bureaucratic delays that suppress supply and inflate prices. This has locked out Gen Z, young professionals, seniors, immigrants, and working families and created a 3.5 million home shortfall. This dynamic is one of several major factors exacerbating homelessness and pushing talent out of state. As Governor, I will create an environment for private companies to aggressively supply the lower end of the market with affordable, high-quality modular mini homes that are factory-made, have already passed environmental reviews in the factory setting, can be transported by truck, and erected quickly at low cost. These durable units will be mass-produced by private companies and used in developments by private firms to create new communities on state-owned lands under long-term low- or no-cost leases, and on private lands. Private developers will finance, build, manage, and operate these communities driving down prices through sheer abundance and competition. No subsidies, no mandates—just deregulation, land access, and temporary incentives to reward high-volume production for underserved groups as well as any Californian who can embrace this innovation in housing.

How I Will Do This

Declare the housing crisis to be a statewide emergency.Institute massive deregulation & implement by-right permitting to remove local discretionary vetoes or endless lawsuits. Work strongly with municipalities and counties to cooperate on removing permitting burdens and hurdles.Reform CEQA to exempt or fast-track factory-built modular homes that meet objective statewide standards (seismic, fire, structural). Approve qualified private projects in under 30 days.Provide private developers with long-term (e.g., 99-year) leases on millions of acres of underutilized state-owned land (Central Valley, Inland Empire, Sierra foothills, North Coast, Eastern Desert, Bay Area periphery) at low or no cost. Private firms will use these sites to develop modular mini-home communities, financing all construction, infrastructure, and ongoing management without taxpayer dollars. Prioritize designs affordable to target groups, but allow full market access.Zero Corporate Tax Incentives for both Manufacturers and Developers (2026–2041) Grant 0% California corporate income tax to companies that mass-produce modular/prefab units at or below $100K for 1,000-square-feet models (adjusted for inflation) and to private developers who build and develop communities using these units, with significant focus on underserved buyers. This will attract both factories and developers, unlocking massive production and deployment capacity through private competition meeting the enormous, pent-up demand.Attract modular home companies to locate to California, using tax incentives and possibly low-cost state land leases for manufacturing and staging. Make California the modular home capital of the country.Factory-Built Modular Mini Homes: Fast, Affordable, Transportable Scale production of compact, ready-to-deploy units:

Efficiency in Government: Zero Debt by 2051

California’s government is bloated, slow, and broke: a $320 billion+ budget growing faster than the economy, $1.7 trillion in debt and unfunded liabilities, ~240,000 state employees delivering services that take weeks or months, and billions lost annually to fraud, error, and legacy systems.The AI revolution has already begun, and California needs to be an early adopter if it wants to be a dominating force in the coming technology tsunami. As Governor, I will harness this wave to end waste through ruthless efficiency, aggressive AI adoption, and disciplined savings—turning government into a lean, high-performance organization that serves people, not itself. The goal: zero state debt, zero unfunded liabilities, and a fully self-sustaining budget funded forever by investment returns, not taxes.

How I will do this

Automate 60% of Government Functions by 2029 (80% by 2031)
Private AI firms will compete to deliver secure, efficient solutions for routine operations across major state agencies (EDD, DMV, FTB, permitting, Caltrans, licensing, CalPERS, CDCR parole, HHSA claims, inspections, and more). Government establishes strict performance and security standards, then steps back to let innovation deliver.

Opportunity Parachute for Displaced Workers
Every affected state employee receives 18 months of transition support:

California Opportunity Endowment Fund (COEF)
Seeded with 25% of every dollar saved from AI automation, fraud reduction, and program consolidation (75% dedicated to debt paydown and transition costs).

Debt & Liability Elimination

Lean Government & Instant Services
By 2035:

This phased, market-driven plan prioritizes immediate savings from high-volume processes while protecting public safety, providing generous support for workers, aggressively paying down legacy debt, and building a future where California thrives through innovation, opportunity, and reduced tax burden.

Letter to Working-Class Californios of Latin American Descent

Whether your roots trace to the original Spanish and Mexican eras, generations from Mexico or Central America, or more recent arrivals from across Latin America, you embody resilience, hard work, and tenacity. You are woven into California's story from Native, European, Asian, Middle Eastern, and African ancestors making you a vital force in our state's history and future.Today, Latinos are California's largest group—about 41% of the population, over 16 million strong—powering our agriculture, construction, services, culture, and economy. This is the Century of the New Californios.Yet real barriers remain: Latino median household income trails significantly (around $96,000–$99,000 vs. higher for White and Asian households). In schools, only about 38–39% of Latino students meet grade-level standards in English, and roughly 25–30% in math. In the workforce, Latinos dominate essential but vulnerable manual and service jobs, while holding just 7–10% of management roles and being underrepresented in tech, finance, and leadership. High transportation costs driven by California's sky-high fuel prices add extra strain on family budgets, commutes, and small businesses.
These gaps limit potential, strain families, and slow generational progress.I know your strength firsthand. After a devastating hurricane in the Dominican Republic, I volunteered with the poorest communities, then founded Plant With Purpose (now over 41 years old, operating in 10 countries on three continents to help farmers plant trees, restore land, and build sustainable futures: plantwithpurpose.org). I also co-founded a nature preserve on the Sea of Cortez in Baja California and led a dedicated team of 24 for 20 years. I've witnessed the drive, work ethic, and family-first spirit that define Latino cultures everywhere.That's why I'm running: to deliver reforms that align with your strengths and close these gaps in one generation.

Together, these open doors to higher education, incomes, homeownership, wealth, entrepreneurship, and leadership in tech, science, education, and innovation. By blending your deep Spanish, Indigenous, and global roots with forward-thinking solutions, we renew California as vibrant, connected, and prosperous—strengthening ties with Latin America and attracting investment across the Americas.This future honors your patrimonio and builds an incredible legacy for your families and people.
Let's ignite it together!Thomas Woodard

California Education Revolution: The Revolution That Wasn't Until Now

Education in California has been "The Revolution That Wasn't": trapped in an antiquated, 19th-century model of rigid classrooms and one-size-fits-all curricula, even as the internet and electronic technologies exploded with potential to transform learning. This outdated system rooted in traditions from a bygone era now costs taxpayers dearly, with per-pupil spending among the nation's highest at about $27,418 (including all state, local, federal sources, bonds, and pensions) yet delivers dismal results, failing to propel our students to the top. Cultural shifts, from evolving family dynamics to digital-native generations, demand adaptation, but entrenched interests like teachers' unions will push back fiercely against change. Despite this, as a Libertarian, I propose igniting the overdue revolution: dismantle the centralized, top-down bureaucracy that's failing our kids, and replace it with a decentralized, modular, competency-based system that puts power in the hands of families, learners, and innovative providers.
California spends among the highest amounts per pupil in the nation yet student outcomes remain disappointing.On the 2024 NAEP (the Nation's Report Card), California's fourth-graders scored below national averages in reading and math, with proficiency rates of about 29% in reading and 35% in math. Eighth-grade results were similarly weak, with roughly 28% proficient in reading and 25% in math.The state ranks in the lower half of states overall, with stalled recovery from pandemic disruptions and persistent achievement gaps.
Teacher shortages, oversized classes, rigid mandates, and ideological priorities have fueled inefficiency, family flight, and a system misaligned with real-world skills amid exploding technological change. Young people struggle to launch because education isn't future-proof.My vision: Shift to choice-driven, mastery-focused education where funding follows the learner via Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) or vouchers. No more one-size-fits-all—parents and students choose from a competitive marketplace of providers.

Keys Elements

Transition Support

Phased Rollout for Feasibility

This Libertarian reform cuts waste, boosts flexibility, aligns with workforce/AI-driven futures, respects educators, incentivizes self-reliance, and reclaims California's innovation edge. It's practical, phased, and empowers every family to build the education that works best—delivering real abundance for the next generation.

The unbridled, chaotic immigration that occurred under Joseph Biden added about 11,000,000 people to the United States while the country was handling the COVID epidemic and immediately afterward. Too many immigrants arrived too quickly, with little thought given to the negative impact on the country's economy.

It was costly, adding a second major crisis on top of the first, but the immigration issue was self-induced. The economic pressures alone on housing, jobs, healthcare facilities and public funding of immigrant benefits came at exactly the wrong time in an uncontrolled, chaotic wave. While watching others protest the Trump Administration of rampant over-aggressiveness in enforcing the capture and extradition of illegal immigrants, I offer the following points:

My plan for how to address this in California

I believe that California needs immigration laws that allow guest workers, and a path to citizenship for non-criminal undocumented immigrants who are crime-free and meet new standards of immigration. also hold to some kind of limitations on the number of immigrants that we can receive, and that those numbers should be a fair representation of all of the various nationalities that are here today. I would negotiate a different approach with the Federal Government to cooperate with the capture and extradition of criminal immigrants, while advocating a reasonable path to legal citizenship for non-criminal immigrants.I understand the current efforts by the current federal administration, but ask for a more profound and nuanced analysis of the problem. If we do not understand all of these factors, all of the current efforts will be like plowing the ocean over time, regardless of short term advances. We will need to play several layers of chess at once to craft a workable future, rather than the current dynamic. We cannot envision a State dominated by criminal empires in our future, yet the longer we postpone agressive policies the harder it will become to contain the monster we have helped create.

I lived and worked in Mexico for 20 years until two years ago. My son developed mental illness at the age of 20, became addicted and at times homeless and passed away in my arms at 37 five years ago in Mexico. Together, these experiences have given me a seasoned perspective and a motivation to share it, hoping to contribute to understanding and resolving this very complex issue.Tom Woodard

California's transportation crisis is strangling growth and stealing time from families. In 2025, commutes rank among the nation's worst, with drivers losing massive hours to congestion. Los Angeles tops global lists with around 88 hours lost per driver annually, costing billions in lost productivity and fuel. The Bay Area and statewide highways are similarly gridlocked, with economic impacts exceeding $55 billion yearly in wasted time and fuel. Traditional fixes like wider highways or more rail are slow, expensive, and insufficient against rising population and urban sprawl. High costs from bureaucracy, permitting delays, and misguided regulations keep innovation grounded.
Worse, the state has poured tens of billions into the high-speed rail project championed by Democratic leadership, yet it remains mired in delays, cost overruns, and incomplete segments. What was sold as a game-changer has become a symbol of government waste: massive spending with little to show for it, while individual commuters remain stuck on crowded freeways.
California is a big state. Individual trips and personal commutes make up the vast majority of travel, as witnessed on our freeways every day: the HOV lane (reserved for carpools) is often sparsely populated, while the single-occupancy vehicle lanes crawl with traffic. This proves most people prefer and need personal, flexible mobility, not one-size-fits-all mass transit.
As a Libertarian, I propose getting the state out of the mass transit business entirely. I would cancel the remaining high-speed rail project immediately, redirect any remaining funds to pay down state debt if legally and practically possible, and attempt to sell the existing infrastructure (land, partial tracks, stations, and equipment) to private buyers or consortia that could repurpose it for more productive uses—freight, local rail, or other infrastructure. Every dollar recovered or saved would go toward reducing the burden on taxpayers rather than continuing a failing boondoggle.
With those resources freed, we unleash the future of personal transportation in the VTOL and eVTOL space—electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that will make sky-high mobility a reality. By slashing red tape, offering targeted incentives, and letting markets compete, we can transform California into the global leader in air mobility, delivering fast, clean, point-to-point travel that bypasses traffic entirely. Both fuel-powered VTOLs and electric eVTOLs hold promising futures, with the former offering greater speed and range for certain applications, while the latter prioritize sustainability and low noise for urban use.

The Vision in Action

Picture stepping out of your home in Pasadena in 2051: your electric flying vehicle lifts off vertically, and in just 5–10 minutes you land in North Hollywood—no traffic, no emissions. This short, everyday hop—about 14–16 miles as the crow flies—becomes effortless and routine, turning what is often a 20–60 minute drive (depending on traffic) into a quick, quiet aerial commute. Quiet, clean eVTOLs bypass gridlock, connect cities and suburbs in minutes, and unlock California's strategic geography for unprecedented freedom and efficiency.

How We Get There Fast

To make this vision real, we begin with law enforcement to demonstrate safety, reliability, and public benefit, then branch out to private sector use based on that proven experience. Day 1: Equip California Highway Patrol and local police with fuel-powered VTOLs for rapid response—their greater speed and range make them ideal for pursuits, surveillance, emergency patrols, and search-and-rescue. This "Sky Patrol" initiative builds public trust through real-world operations, with transparent data on reduced response times (e.g., 7 minutes statewide), safety records, and efficiency gains informing the next steps.
From there, expand to private use:

The Future of Freight vs. Personal Transport

While the future of freight is likely dominated by autonomous systems on the ground (or under the ground in efficient loops like proposed hyperloop cargo variants or self-driving truck convoys), flight is best suited for the personal transport of the future. Personal mobility demands speed, flexibility, and point-to-point freedom—qualities eVTOLs and VTOLs deliver perfectly for people, while ground-based autonomy handles heavy, high-volume cargo more economically and safely at scale.

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Libertarian Solutions

This is practical, phased, and aligned with California's strengths—tech talent, aerospace heritage, and innovation history. By embracing VTOL/eVTOL with Libertarian principles (decentralized, voluntary, innovation-first), we cut commute times dramatically, boost productivity, reduce emissions, create high-wage jobs, and give families back their time. Cancel the high-speed rail project, exit mass transit, and let the sky become the new freeway for people. California leads the world in sky-high mobility, turning congestion into abundance.

California's public safety crisis is real and growing. Violent crime rates in many cities remain stubbornly high compared to pre-2020 levels, property crime and retail theft have surged in urban areas, homelessness-related disorder and encampments create unsafe conditions in neighborhoods and parks, and response times for emergency calls can stretch far beyond acceptable standards in many jurisdictions. Families feel less secure in their homes and communities, businesses close or relocate due to theft and disorder, and younger generations see limited opportunity when basic safety is in doubt. These problems are not inevitable—they are the predictable result of misguided policies, reduced enforcement resources, prosecutorial discretion that prioritizes leniency over accountability, and bureaucratic constraints that tie the hands of law enforcement.As a Libertarian, I believe government’s core legitimate role is to protect individual rights, including the right to life, liberty, and property. Safety is not optional; it is the foundation for freedom and prosperity. My approach restores real law and order without expanding government power or infringing on civil liberties—focusing on swift, fair enforcement, accountability for violent and repeat offenders, and targeted, effective use of resources rather than micromanaging from Sacramento.

The Vision in Action

Picture California in the near future where:

Key Solutions

Benefits

This approach is not about more government—it's about government doing its proper job well and getting out of the way otherwise. By restoring swift, fair law enforcement, deterring crime through accountability, addressing the addiction-disorder-crime nexus with structured 90-day intervention, cooperating selectively with federal authorities on criminal aliens while protecting non-criminal residents, and deploying innovative tools like Sky Patrol VTOLs and AI for emergency response, we can dramatically improve safety, rebuild trust in institutions, protect victims, and create the secure environment needed for prosperity, family life, and opportunity. California becomes a place where people feel safe, businesses thrive, and communities flourish again.

Dear Gen ZI see you. I see the quiet panic, the confusion, the slow burn of hope being smothered by a gnarly reality. The culture you inherited was wrong about the future and fucked it up. Then came COVID. Locked down, isolated, classes on screens, first jobs vanishing, social lives reduced to pixels. You stepped into adulthood amid inflation that crushed your paychecks, housing prices that smoked your income, and a culture that increasingly seems to reward outrage more than achievement. The social contract fell apart, and new, confusing dangers threaten your already overtaxed future.No wonder many of you feel embittered. No wonder many retreat into video games, weed, scrolling, or just checking out. It's a rational response to a reality that stopped making sense years ago.
But here's what I also see: underneath the quiet panic and confusion is a lot of fuel just waiting to ignite. This isn't the first time in history that a culture has thrown serious challenges at an entire generation. Still, you are the most educated, connected, technologically fluent generation in history. You care about the planet, about justice, about authenticity. You know how broken things are and deep down, you want to fix them. The problem isn't you. This isn't normal. The problem is the mess that those who came before you created through bad ideas and polarizing memes.The best possible future isn't gone. It's just an orphan in big need of adoption by young adults who care and want to make it happen.
As a candidate for Governor, I want to speak straight to you: the panic ends when you decide it ends. The confusion clears when you decide to not be confused. Put the controller down for a season, stash the bong pipe, and ignite your future, not because some politician says so, but because your future is still yours to claim. Hard work still matters, but not the kind that just keeps the broken system running. Real hard work of the kind that rebuilds, creates value, solves problems, and earns you a stake in where we're headed. The future that is messed up and now needs oxygen.If you're ready to step up, I will be open real doors for you:

We need your young energy, your ideas and idealism, your strong backs, your creative minds. Also, bring your cynicism so we can spin it into courage!Tom Woodard
Libertarian Candidate for Governor, 2026

If you're disaffected—tired of the endless shouting matches, the false narratives, the straw-man arguments, the mythical stories that pass for debate, the false dichotomies that force everyone into one camp or another, and the widespread refusal to engage in critical thinking—then this is your invitation.I am not asking you to join a tribe or an ideology. I am asking you to join a movement of people who want to rebuild California on the things we still have in common: the desire for a safe place to raise families, the need for real opportunity, the instinct for survival, and the shared history of overcoming hardship together.You don't have to agree with me on everything. You don't have to abandon your values, your faith, your identity, or your past votes. You simply have to be willing to say: Enough! Enough division. Enough waste. Enough decline. Enough watching our children and grandchildren be priced out of the future that California once promised to all.
This is for you if:

If any of this resonates, come build with us. Libertarians are leading this effort, and we welcome you to join us in that work—or simply to walk alongside and help shape a better path. No purity tests. No loyalty oaths. No demand to stop disagreeing. Just a shared commitment to turn the page and build something better—together.
The bridge is open. Come and ignite California's renewal with us.
Sincerely,Thomas Woodard

Libertarian Manifesto: Free California to Thrive

Core Principle

The non-aggression principle is absolute: no individual or government may initiate force, fraud, or coercion against peaceful people. You own your life, body, labor, choices, and property. The government's sole legitimate role is to protect individual rights, defend against external threats, and provide only those essential functions that must be met collectively.All government programs overreach, stifling prosperity and driving California's decline, creating sky-high living costs, energy poverty, housing shortages, wildfires, youth exodus, and job flight, all fueled by excessive taxes, mandates, regulations, and cronyism.Libertarian solutions unleash freedom: personal liberty, free markets, minimal government, and voluntary stewardship. The result: lower costs, abundant resources, explosive innovation, and opportunity for everyone.

Immigration

Economic Freedom & Energy Abundance

Smart Conservation Revival

Personal Transportation Takes Wing

Solve Housing for All

Limited Government
Shrink the state to essentials: more efficient, less intrusive.

California Education Revolution

Homelessness

Environmental Stewardship

Technological Growth & Freedom to Thrive

Progress explodes when free people pursue voluntary opportunities—not when central planners force outcomes. Liberate California from chains of overregulation, and watch innovation, prosperity, and human flourishing return.

My Fellow Californians,

I was born and raised in California. I studied here, launched my career here, and started my family here. For over a third of my life, I also lived and worked in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, becoming fluent in Spanish and gaining a deep appreciation for Latino cultures and the real struggles so many face in other places in the world. In 1980, I worked as a volunteer with an International Relief and Development Agency after a monster hurricane displaced thousands of people in the Dominican Republic. From that experience, I saw that those refugees had been displaced by mud slides, caused by the rampant deforestation to make and sell charcoal for cooking fuel to the markets in Santo Domingo. I had read in my "Mother Earth News" about some rapid growing tree varieties, and a professor in Hawaii send me 30,000 seeds of a tree native to our area that had very rapid growth. The seedlings that we produced from this were planted all around that mountainous river valley, and when I visited 2 1/2 years later, some had reached 50 feet in height. That experience led me to start a non-profit organization that is now working in 10 countries on three continents that loans money to poor farmers to convert to tree crops, saving watersheds and enhancing incomes while protecting farms from erosion. They are nearing 100 million trees planted, and have lifted over 900,000 people out of abject poverty. Later, I went to work in Loreto, Mexico, and co-founded a nature preserve in a remarkable area on the Sea of Cortez, where California actually began. I became so fascinated by its history and beauty that I founded an Early California Festival. I worked closely with my 24 employees, one of the best teams I have ever been a part of, and learned a great deal about Mexican people, culture and their drive to create the best life they can get for themselves and their families. These experiences, combined with raising four extraordinary children, traveling over much of the Western USA for my work in high-tech surgical device sales, and the many other life experiences that I have had, have ignited a lifelong pursuit of inquiry and understanding, including of our shared challenges of self-governance.My three daughters have grown into independent, gifted women who continue to inspire me, and we are very close. My son Joshua was brilliant: multilingual, athletic, artistic, a mechanical and electronic genius. We shared travel, adventures, fishing trips, sports, and interest in new technologies. We were joined at the hip since he arrived. Then, at 20, severe mental illness struck, bringing nightmares, mania, addiction, and periods of homelessness. After 17 years of halfway houses, in- and out-patient rehab, struggles and heartbreak, he died in my arms at 37. That grief is permanent, refusing to let me retreat into comfortable “golden years.” Instead, that experience compels me to act courageously for the future of all our families, our young adults trying to launch their careers, and for our beautiful, troubled State of California. While our wonderful state is blessed with unmatched beauty, talent, strategic geography, and human potential, it also teeters on a cliff. Sky-high costs from bureaucracy, inefficiency, and a dysfunctional governing monopoly are driving our younger generations away and squandering our shared opportunities in massive costs and overreach. The coming tsunami of innovation in AI, robotics, fusion power, modular housing, effective education, and flying personal transport will not be kind to high-cost locations locked in unworkable bureaucratic quicksand. We will be too slow, too bloated and way too expensive to dominate the coming technology revolution. These technologies could transform our state once again into an epicenter of innovation and opportunity. They also could pass us by for the places that offer better business environments elsewhere.I reject today’s toxic divisions and the bases that fuel endless conflict. The growth of sensationalized panic in the media has at least one tragic result when it divides us into polarized camps that hate each other. Like many, I am tired of sensationalized fabrications, straw-man arguments passing for discussion, false dichotomies, mythical narratives, and a reluctance to engage in critical thinking as a tool. We all share a common imperative of survival and a rich history of overcoming hardships together. It’s time we got back to that. It’s time to beat our swords into trowels and plowshares to unite across viewpoints around what truly matters: freedom, opportunity, and prosperity for all.
I invite people of every background and belief to join me in rebuilding California through hard work and visionary zeal. As your Libertarian candidate for Governor, I offer a stark choice: continue drifting into self-imposed decline or choose the bold renewal that awaits us. A decentralized, dynamic California where funding follows people, technology unleashes potential, superior education makes us smarter, and government returns to helping individuals and communities thrive in peace. California has always been where the future arrives first. With vision, courage, and the right principles of governance, we can reclaim our place in an era of freedom, peace, and prosperity. I have lived a life of accomplishment and disappointment, victory and pain. I have no alternative agenda except to help turn a big ship into a bright future.That future belongs to all Californians. Let´s ignite it together!

Thomas Woodard

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