State Assembly District 19
Votes reliably for pro-housing legislation and promoted CalEITC expansion as Budget chair.
Ting focuses less on housing than his peers Chiu and Wiener, but he still votes reliably for pro-housing legislation. As chair of the Assembly Budget committee, he has notably promoted the expansion of CalEITC, a cash transfer to low-income Californians. CalEITC effectively reduces poverty in California and is a step toward basic income.
His opponent, John McDonnell, is a Republican who demonizes people experiencing homelessness and the gas tax, and advocates protecting Prop 13’s inequitable property tax system. While I agree with him on some views like equal protection, allowing gig work, and supporting charter schools, a vote for any Republican is, today and for years to come, a vote for Trumpism and the GOP, which have failed our country and our state.