Maebe Pudlo, SD-26 candidate, 2026 primary election questionnaire

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Bringing universal healthcare to California is one of my top policy priorities.
65% : I have been an advocate and champion for universal healthcare for almost 20 years.
63% : Yes, I support introducing universal healthcare for all Californians, regardless of immigration status.
59% : I also support public banks, public grocery stores, free public transportation, free state college, guaranteed housing access, and increasing CalFresh/Snap benefits for anyone in need, regardless of immigration status.
59% : We have maximum access to resources like solar, wind, and hydropower to produce electricity in California.
58% : I am running to bring universal healthcare to all Californians, regardless of immigration status.
58% : We can make addiction treatments available without criminalizing addicts through a single-payer, universal healthcare system across the entire state.
53% : Abolish ICE.
52% : I support spending cuts that don't impact social services.
52% : I support a vacancy tax for corporate landlords and developers.
52% : We should be focusing on moving away from fossil fuels and toward renewable and sustainable energy, not bending to the fossil fuel industry.
51% : I, as a legislator, would demand we pass universal healthcare to guarantee this, and I have no qualms about calling out any fellow elected leaders who oppose it.
50% : I support a wealth tax and cutting corporate subsidies to pay for a single-payer model of healthcare.
48% : As someone who opposes AI, I support an "AI Tax" for environmental and social services.
48% : I would prefer the entire state refrain from working with ICE, CBP, and DHS.
47% : A moral and just society would not allow this. To achieve housing for all specifically, I support repealing the Ellis & Costa-Hawkins Acts, creating a statewide vacancy tax for corporate developments, stronger eviction protections, emergency grant funding to keep housed people housed, freezing rents until the minimum wage matches the livable wage by county, building 100,000 units of permanent and supportive housing in Los Angeles, and an additional 100,000 units statewide, and influencing local ordinances such as repealing 41.18 which criminalizes people experiencing homelessness.
47% : The state should absolutely play a role in ensuring that hospitals offer gender-affirming care without discrimination.
46% : I've pledged to reject all corporate donations so the voters can trust I am not beholden to the fossil fuel industry.
42% : We need to keep ICE out of California, and our elected officials need to do everything possible to make that happen.
41% : Yet public concerns remain that there aren't enough regulations governing when or how AI should be used, and that the technology would replace jobs and leave too many Californians unemployed.

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