Gubernatorial candidates debate housing, schools, fires

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "I know what it's like to grow up in a house without food and on government assistance.
58% : "Three-dollar gas, cut your electric bills in half, your first $100,000 tax free, and especially for young people, a home you can afford to buy, so we can restore that California dream of homeownership.
52% : "If want to reduce carbon emissions and protect against wildfires and revive our timber industry so we can produce timber for the homes we need to build in California, there is a simple way to do it, which is to have modern forest management, so we don't have the fuel load in our forests," said Hilton.
50% : "It is the most regressive tax in California and working people, rural people are spending three times as much maintaining our roads as wealthier EV owners," said Mahan.
47% : Because of that, Mahan pledged to suspend and reform the gas tax.
45% : "The regulations and the taxes have to go.
45% : "We can create jobs and opportunities in rural California and reduce carbon emissions in the process because we don't have the mega wildfires.
36% : "Those who say they're going to cut the gas tax have to also say what they're going to replace it with.
33% : " Becerra is not in favor of cutting the gas tax, which he said is needed to fund maintenance of roads and bridges.

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