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Offer more flexible job-training and retraining programs for older students, and plan classrooms for future needs. His interview raises low employee pay as a problem, but does not propose a salary or funding solution.

Ask: Which courses and schedules would you change, and how would higher pay be funded?

Expand career-training programs that can lead quickly to paid work. Explore student and employee housing on college property, including the Wake Campus, and give the college a voice in the city’s rent-policy discussions.

Ask: How would housing be financed, and which training programs would you expand first?

Declare a housing emergency, use state financing to help approved affordable homes get built, and expand down-payment assistance for first-time buyers. His housing plan also proposes faster approvals and more homes near jobs and transit.

Ask: How much funding would these programs need, and which changes would require legislation?

Proposes no state income tax on the first $150,000 and 8% above that. His small-business plan also would abolish the $800 annual business tax and cut state regulatory requirements below 200,000 by the end of his first term.

Ask: Which rules would you remove, and how would lost tax revenue and worker protections be handled?

Make higher education more affordable and expand paid internships so students can earn money while gaining work experience. Her statement does not give a tuition target or an internship budget.

Ask: Which university-board decisions would you seek to change, and how would internships be funded?

Raise education standards, develop an economic plan for businesses, change how state commissions handle water and farmland, and fight antisemitism on campuses. Her statement gives goals but does not name specific commission changes.

Ask: Which university policies or commission decisions would you change first?

Defend access to voting by mail and time available to vote. Her statement opposes shortening voting hours or days and removing mail-ballot access.

Ask: What specific changes would make voting and ballot tracking easier while protecting election security?

Count ballots faster and require voter identification. His statement does not give a counting deadline or explain how an identification rule would work for mailed ballots.

Ask: What deadline would you set, and how would voters obtain and use the required ID?

Run for re-election on public spending and payroll reports, monthly cash reports, returning unclaimed property, and modernization of the state payroll system. Her statement describes work underway rather than a new reporting deadline.

Ask: When would payroll modernization be completed, and what new financial information would become public?

Put individual state payments in an easy-to-use online database, updated close to the time money is spent. Also calls for checking spending before payment and auditing how funds were used afterward.

Ask: What would the database cost, when would it launch, and how would sensitive information be protected?

Use public financing to help build affordable homes and protect pensions. Her statement also promises investment in children and families, but does not describe a specific new program or funding amount.

Ask: Which housing-finance tools would you expand, and how would you measure costs and investment risk?

Seek more oversight of state investments, measurable results and public information about how money is managed. Her statement does not name a new investment rule, reporting schedule or audit program.

Ask: Which reports or investment decisions would you change first?

Defend California’s gun-safety and reproductive-health laws in court. His campaign also describes expanding gun-violence prevention, clearing the rape-kit backlog and bringing cases against employers who steal wages.

Ask: Which enforcement work would receive more resources, and how would progress be reported?

Enforce Proposition 36 on repeat theft and drug offenses and prosecute human-trafficking cases. These are priorities for the state’s legal and enforcement work, rather than a city police staffing plan.

Ask: Which cases and partnerships would you prioritize, and what would that require in staffing and funds?

Keep a private-insurer approach: seek more competing insurers, protect people unfairly dropped from coverage and press insurers to handle rebuilding claims fairly. Opposes taking on the financial risk of a large new public insurance system.

Ask: What regulatory changes would bring insurers back, and how would you measure effects on premiums and coverage?

Create a public disaster-insurance program, limit excessive insurer profits and enforce rules against illegal price-fixing and unfair claims handling. Her statement does not set the program’s premium, eligibility or public funding.

Ask: Who would be covered, what would households pay, and who would pay after a major disaster?

Seek fair property assessments, help taxpayers understand their obligations and use available tax relief after disasters. Her statement describes priorities within the board’s tax oversight and assistance work.

Ask: Which assessment practices or disaster-relief processes would you change?

Scrutinize tax breaks for utilities and seek an end to sales tax on restaurant and delivered food. His statement does not set out the steps needed to enact these changes.

Ask: Which changes could the board make, and which would need lawmakers or voters?

Bring his San Diego school-improvement approach statewide. His statement points to school repairs, technology and safer entrances, alongside classroom investment and protection for LGBTQ students. Those local examples do not establish a funded statewide rollout.

Ask: Which reforms would you fund first, and how would you work with local school boards?

Prioritize reading, writing and math, reduce bureaucracy, and make school spending more transparent. Her campaign also opposes transgender girls using girls’ sports teams and locker rooms, and seeks more parental control over school decisions.

Ask: Which statewide rules would you change, and what could this office do without new legislation?