Public Comment

I'm an activist and Democrat running for State Assembly District 14 because I object to the housing laws that Buffy Wicks, our Assembly member, votes for. It's market-rate high-rise housing we see going up everywhere in the East Bay. Her laws let developers bypass our city council's environmental protections and build high-cost housing anywhere they can buy land.

We need low-cost housing, housing for all of us. See my video, https://youtu.be/78AfCZNbYHU

Her failed state housing policy means that more people camp on the street, travel far from home to work, couch surf, live in cars because they cannot pay the high cost of housing.

Wicks' "affordable" housing In the East Bay is for those making less than $100,000 a year. "Low-income" housing is for people who earn less than $78,000 a year. But we need housing for all of us. Minimum wage workers earn $30,000 a year.

In the Assembly, I will work to legislate needed housing, housing for elders on Social Security, veterans, teachers, students, families, people who want to live near their work. This is the housing we need, housing for all of us. 

Vote Margot Smith for State Assembly 

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Website: margotsmithforassembly.com 

Endorsers: 

Our Revolution East Bay 

Gayle McLaughlin, Former Richmond Mayor 

Shirley Dean, Former Berkeley Mayor 

Daniel Hodges, Co-founder, Health Care for All - California 

Becky O'Malley, Berkeley Daily Planet 

Leah Simon- Weisberg, Chair, Berkeley Rent Board 

Zelda Bronstein, former Chair, Berkeley Planning Commission. 

David Weintraub, Wellstone Club, Berkeley 

Willie Phillips, NAACP, Berkeley 

Dean Metzger, Berkeley Neighborhood Council 

Video: https://youtu.be/78AfCZNbYHU 

State Assembly District 14 is Berkeley, El Cerrito, Piedmont, Albany, Richmond, San Pablo, Pinole, Hercules, and a part of Oakland.