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Dennis Sanchez for Assembly – Common Sense, Accountability, and Real-Life Experience

Faith, family, freedom. Those principles are not just slogans for Dennis Sanchez—they are the foundation of his life and the reason he is running for the California State Assembly.

Dennis Sanchez is running for Assembly District 29, which includes parts of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties. It is a large and diverse district currently represented by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, and Dennis is offering voters a grounded, commonsense alternative focused on the everyday concerns of working families and local communities.

Sanchez is a lifelong Central Coast resident, a father, a small business owner, and a man whose life has been shaped by hard work, personal responsibility, and service to others. Raised in a Christian family in Castroville, he learned early that character matters, family matters, and that leadership begins with showing up, working hard, and doing what is right even when it is difficult. His professional background includes construction, private security, management, and small business, giving him firsthand experience with the pressures working families, employers, and local communities face every day in California.

What sets Dennis Sanchez apart is that he is not coming from a political career. He is coming from real life. He understands what rising costs, overregulation, public safety concerns, and government neglect look like on the ground because he has lived them alongside the people he hopes to represent. He is running to bring practical judgment, accountability, and common-sense priorities back to Sacramento.

One of the most encouraging developments in Dennis Sanchez’s campaign has been the response he is receiving from the Hispanic community on the Central Coast. More families are recognizing that the values they live every day—faith, strong families, hard work, respect for law enforcement, educational opportunity, and the desire to build a better life—align naturally with Republican principles. Dennis has been effective in meeting people where they are, listening first, and speaking in a way that connects public policy to everyday concerns. That outreach is opening doors and building trust in communities too often taken for granted.

Dennis’s campaign is focused on the issues that most directly affect quality of life. He believes public safety must be restored by supporting law enforcement and ensuring communities are safe for families, workers, and local businesses. He believes affordability must be addressed by pushing back on policies that drive up the cost of living. He believes infrastructure—roads, water, and the basic systems of government—must again become a serious priority. He believes small businesses and agriculture should be supported, not buried under endless fees and regulations. And he believes education should return to academic excellence, giving students the tools they need to succeed in life.

Dennis Sanchez is running to be a steady, grounded, and accountable voice for the Central Coast. You can donate on his campaign website, VoteSanchez.com.

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Dennis Sanchez for Assembly – Common Sense, Accountability, and Real-Life Experience

Faith, family, freedom. Those principles are not just slogans for Dennis Sanchez—they are the foundation of his life and the reason he is running for the California State Assembly.

Dennis Sanchez is running for Assembly District 29, which includes parts of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties. It is a large and diverse district currently represented by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, and Dennis is offering voters a grounded, commonsense alternative focused on the everyday concerns of working families and local communities.

Sanchez is a lifelong Central Coast resident, a father, a small business owner, and a man whose life has been shaped by hard work, personal responsibility, and service to others. Raised in a Christian family in Castroville, he learned early that character matters, family matters, and that leadership begins with showing up, working hard, and doing what is right even when it is difficult. His professional background includes construction, private security, management, and small business, giving him firsthand experience with the pressures working families, employers, and local communities face every day in California.

What sets Dennis Sanchez apart is that he is not coming from a political career. He is coming from real life. He understands what rising costs, overregulation, public safety concerns, and government neglect look like on the ground because he has lived them alongside the people he hopes to represent. He is running to bring practical judgment, accountability, and common-sense priorities back to Sacramento.

One of the most encouraging developments in Dennis Sanchez’s campaign has been the response he is receiving from the Hispanic community on the Central Coast. More families are recognizing that the values they live every day—faith, strong families, hard work, respect for law enforcement, educational opportunity, and the desire to build a better life—align naturally with Republican principles. Dennis has been effective in meeting people where they are, listening first, and speaking in a way that connects public policy to everyday concerns. That outreach is opening doors and building trust in communities too often taken for granted.

Dennis’s campaign is focused on the issues that most directly affect quality of life. He believes public safety must be restored by supporting law enforcement and ensuring communities are safe for families, workers, and local businesses. He believes affordability must be addressed by pushing back on policies that drive up the cost of living. He believes infrastructure—roads, water, and the basic systems of government—must again become a serious priority. He believes small businesses and agriculture should be supported, not buried under endless fees and regulations. And he believes education should return to academic excellence, giving students the tools they need to succeed in life.

Dennis Sanchez is running to be a steady, grounded, and accountable voice for the Central Coast. You can donate on his campaign website, VoteSanchez.com.

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How the Wealth Tax Allows the Legislature to Circumvent Prop. 13

Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and Business Roundtable President Rob Lapsley have co-authored a new Substack post  uncovering yet another way in which the so-called “Wealth Tax” is really an Everyone Tax.  Here are some excerpts from their article:

“Sacramento politicians are asking Californians to believe a familiar story again: don’t worry, this tax only applies to someone else.

This time, it is wrapped in the language of fairness and sold as a “billionaire tax.” But when you actually read the fine print on how the ballot measure is structured, the reality becomes crystal clear. This is not simply a tax on billionaires. It is a framework that will allow future Legislatures to expand new taxes onto your property, savings, investments, retirement accounts, taxing millions of Californians who would never consider themselves billionaires.”

“One of the most insidious details in the bill is how the authors wrote it to allow the Legislature to circumvent Prop. 13. The authors of the measure aren’t stupid, and they deliberately structured the initiative so the current exclusion for real property exists in statute — specifically in the Revenue and Taxation Code — rather than as a permanent constitutional protection. That distinction matters enormously.

Why? Because the same measure explicitly grants the Legislature authority to amend the “2026 Billionaire Tax Act” with a two-thirds vote, so long as lawmakers claim the changes further the purposes of the act. In other words, the initiative itself hands future Legislatures the power to rewrite key portions of the tax structure after voters approve it.

That is the bridge around Proposition 13.

The measure first creates constitutional authority for non-uniform taxation of property. It then places the actual exclusion for real property into statutory language that can later be amended by the Legislature with a two-thirds vote. So while supporters say today that homes and real estate are excluded, the mechanism to remove that exclusion without a vote of the people already exists inside the measure itself.

The result is a simple but dangerous formula:

  1. Create new constitutional authority for wealth taxes with pre-planned loopholes to exploit long after voters make their decisions
  2. Place property exclusions in amendable statuteinstead of permanent constitutional language to protect taxpayers.
  3. Empower the politicians in the Legislature to later rewrite those statutes with a two-thirds vote
  4. Circumvent Prop. 13 by allowing the Legislature to expand taxes onto real propertywithout going back to voters for another statewide ballot measure.

Read the Substack article here.

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How the Wealth Tax Allows the Legislature to Circumvent Prop. 13

Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and Business Roundtable President Rob Lapsley have co-authored a new Substack post  uncovering yet another way in which the so-called “Wealth Tax” is really an Everyone Tax.  Here are some excerpts from their article:

“Sacramento politicians are asking Californians to believe a familiar story again: don’t worry, this tax only applies to someone else.

This time, it is wrapped in the language of fairness and sold as a “billionaire tax.” But when you actually read the fine print on how the ballot measure is structured, the reality becomes crystal clear. This is not simply a tax on billionaires. It is a framework that will allow future Legislatures to expand new taxes onto your property, savings, investments, retirement accounts, taxing millions of Californians who would never consider themselves billionaires.”

“One of the most insidious details in the bill is how the authors wrote it to allow the Legislature to circumvent Prop. 13. The authors of the measure aren’t stupid, and they deliberately structured the initiative so the current exclusion for real property exists in statute — specifically in the Revenue and Taxation Code — rather than as a permanent constitutional protection. That distinction matters enormously.

Why? Because the same measure explicitly grants the Legislature authority to amend the “2026 Billionaire Tax Act” with a two-thirds vote, so long as lawmakers claim the changes further the purposes of the act. In other words, the initiative itself hands future Legislatures the power to rewrite key portions of the tax structure after voters approve it.

That is the bridge around Proposition 13.

The measure first creates constitutional authority for non-uniform taxation of property. It then places the actual exclusion for real property into statutory language that can later be amended by the Legislature with a two-thirds vote. So while supporters say today that homes and real estate are excluded, the mechanism to remove that exclusion without a vote of the people already exists inside the measure itself.

The result is a simple but dangerous formula:

  1. Create new constitutional authority for wealth taxes with pre-planned loopholes to exploit long after voters make their decisions
  2. Place property exclusions in amendable statuteinstead of permanent constitutional language to protect taxpayers.
  3. Empower the politicians in the Legislature to later rewrite those statutes with a two-thirds vote
  4. Circumvent Prop. 13 by allowing the Legislature to expand taxes onto real propertywithout going back to voters for another statewide ballot measure.

Read the Substack article here.

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California Congressional Redistricting Maps: Current and Proposed Districts

Source: Statewide Database

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California Citizens Redistricting Commission – District Viewer

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