By Alexandra Crosnoe

June 30, 2025 4:48 p.m.

“Buhler said she is particularly passionate about addressing homelessness and making rent cheaper. She plans to give a tax return of 10% to renters who pay on time and create a policy that would prevent rent from being raised by more than 2% across the state every year. Landlords would also receive a 5% tax break annually, she said.

“There’s already been case studies in this state that have been successful in doing this,” Buhler said. “It’s actually more expensive to criminalize homelessness.”

Buhler said she would work to handle fire recovery – and would prioritize listening to environmental experts when creating these policies. She added that she would implement a regional, rather than state-wide, approach to handling fires, but did not specify what that plan would be.

The primary election will take place June 2, 2026. In California, candidates from all parties appear on the same primary ballot, with the top two advancing to the general election.

Ballot drop-off locations open May 5, 2026, and in-person early voting begins May 23, 2026. Eligible citizens must be registered to vote by May 18, 2026.”

By Robin Epley

“As for the five women on the ballot, there are two particularly exciting options. Why two? The process of elimination, mostly. UCLA senior Carolina Buhler, while making an admirable attempt, hasn’t a Bomb Pop’s chance in July of actually winning. The other two I’m counting out are perhaps more controversial to say so: California Democratic Party vice chair Betty Yee and current Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis. Yee just doesn’t have the public name recognition it takes to make a serious run at the position — a problem that plagues most of the field, to be honest. But no one wants the first reaction of voters upon hearing their name to be “Who?” Kounalakis, for her part, has simply failed to distinguish herself in any way as lieutenant governor. Nor has she made any attempt to extricate her reputation from her family’s deep pockets — her father is the obnoxiously wealthy Sacramento developer, Angelo Tsakopoulos. Kounalakis may also now regret getting into the race so early. She was the first to announce, all the way back in 2023, and might have been hoping for a Harris run as a way to quietly and gracefully bow out of contention. (Yee also announced in 2023 on the heels of Kounalakis, I might add.) That leaves the only two truly promising female candidates: Former U.S. representative from California’s 47th congressional district, Katie Porter; and former President pro tempore of the California Senate, Toni Atkins.”

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