Cheryl Sudduth
Cheryl Sudduth (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 8th Congressional District. She lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Sudduth unsuccessfully sought election as a Democratic candidate to the U.S. House to represent the 11th Congressional District of California in 2012 and 2014.[1]
Biography
Sudduth graduated from Hazelwood Central High in Florissant, Missouri. Sudduth earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992.[2] Her career experience includes working as the director of contracts and compliance for Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay, an international negotiator, and a policy advocate.[3]
Elections
2022
See also: California's 8th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 8
Incumbent John Garamendi defeated Rudy Recile in the general election for U.S. House California District 8 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Garamendi (D) | 75.7 | 145,501 |
 | Rudy Recile (R)  | 24.3 | 46,634 | |
| Total votes: 192,135 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 8
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 8 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Garamendi (D) | 63.1 | 72,333 |
| ✔ | | Rudy Recile (R) | 20.5 | 23,518 |
 | Cheryl Sudduth (D) | 9.9 | 11,378 | |
 | Christopher Riley (D) | 3.4 | 3,926 | |
 | Edwin Rutsch (D) | 2.9 | 3,268 | |
| Demnlus Johnson (D) (Write-in) | 0.2 | 234 | ||
| Total votes: 114,657 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 15
Buffy Wicks defeated Jovanka Beckles in the general election for California State Assembly District 15 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Buffy Wicks (D) | 53.6 | 104,583 |
 | Jovanka Beckles (D) | 46.4 | 90,405 | |
| Total votes: 194,988 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 15
The following candidates ran in the primary for California State Assembly District 15 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Buffy Wicks (D) | 31.4 | 37,141 |
| ✔ | | Jovanka Beckles (D) | 15.8 | 18,733 |
 | Dan Kalb (D) | 15.2 | 18,007 | |
 | Judith Appel (D) | 11.5 | 13,591 | |
| Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto (D) | 8.3 | 9,826 | ||
| Pranav Jandhyala (R) | 5.9 | 6,946 | ||
| Andy Katz (D) | 5.2 | 6,209 | ||
| Ben Bartlett (D) | 3.3 | 3,949 | ||
| Cheryl Sudduth (D) | 1.3 | 1,493 | |
| Raquella Thaman (D) | 0.9 | 1,007 | ||
| Owen Poindexter (D) | 0.7 | 819 | ||
| Sergey Vikramsingh Piterman (D) | 0.6 | 689 | ||
| Total votes: 118,410 | |||
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2014
Sudduth ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent California's 11th District. Sudduth was defeated in the primary on June 3, 2014.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |
 Mark DeSaulnier |
58.9% | 59,605 | |
| Republican | Tue Phan-Quang |
27.9% | 28,242 | |
| Democratic | Cheryl Sudduth | 4.9% | 4,913 | |
| Democratic | Tony Daysog | 3.4% | 3,482 | |
| Independent | Jason Ramey | 2.6% | 2,673 | |
| Democratic | Ki Ingersol | 2.3% | 2,313 | |
| Total Votes | 101,228 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State |
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2012
Sudduth ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent California's 11th District. She was defeated in the open primary on June 5, 2012.[5][6]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign website
Sudduth's campaign website stated the following:
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Education We know that education is the big divide and a key element for economic upward mobility. We believe our children are worth fighting and that every student has the right to access high-quality, equitable education and free from discriminatory practices. Education is a financial investment which will help close the achievement gap & subsequent economic disparities. We can put our schools back on top by working with parents, teachers, our local governments and tech businesses to create public-private partnerships to solve our challenges and invest in our future. To do so, it is imperative we continue to advocate for free public education at all levels with strong quality public schools in every neighborhood; require transparency, accountability & inclusive decision-making for all school & policy-making boards; implement publicly-funded, universal play-based preschool; reduce class sizes (+20 to 17) in schools impacted by poverty, racism and language barriers; implement programs which increase graduation rates for minority students and those from underserved communities; and support adult education programs. We know there are huge disparities in how students are being educated, access to learning tools and/or technology, and which services and supports are being provided. Assessing these gaps has been an ongoing realization that much of the issue related to achievement gaps is actually not a school issue - it is a poverty issue, it is a societal issue that shows up at school. Think for a moment of the most underperforming schools - where are they located? Generally, in the most chronically economically depressed areas? When there are areas of concentrated poverty, no matter the resources poured into those schools - the trainings, the teaching, the incentives – the effects of poverty will creep into the children's lives and distract their attention from the learning that needs to happen outside of the classroom. Their preoccupation with their life, indeed their survival, will take precedence over their studies, their education. These students would benefit “greatly” with the type of purposeful school integration that places low-income students into schools in more affluent areas. To truly reduce the achievement gap and subsequent economic disparities, we will need a “real” educational evolution and determine the services, programs and supports required to meet student needs. We can accomplish this best by working directly with our Students, Parents, Educators, and other Stakeholders. Instead of employing one-size-fits-all teaching methods, we can customize our educational systems to truly teach our young people and others how to be critical thinkers, analytical people, creative thinkers, and innovators. We can help them use all of their learning modalities to learn new skills and further develop learned skills. We can ensure the educational needs of all students are determined equitably and on the basis of (i.e. true need) rather than parents’ zip codes & bank accounts. To meet safety standards, we will increase safety and personal protective supplies and take the necessary fact- and scientific-based measures to ensure our children and school staff are safe during the pandemic and beyond. Lastly, research shows that children respond better when they are well-fed, so we will establish matching funds programs to combat food insecurity and ensure healthy school breakfasts and snacks are reinstated in schools and food pantry programs are available on college campuses. EDUCATIONAL TRAUMA/ SENSETIVITY Based on many of the social dynamics currently existing in our schools, we must provide full wraparound mental health & social services for all students & families, ensuring teachers and staff are provided proper training to manage situations which occur in a culturally sensitive and knowledgeable manner. In order to fully address many of these issues on a daily basis. It is imperative teachers, teacher aides, substitutes, counselors, administrators are either hired from the neighborhoods which service trauma-affected youth or are adequately trained and undergo extensive firsthand experience dealing with these youth in a culturally sensitive way to attain an appropriate level of cultural competency and sensitivity to the issues affecting these students. Especially that which may hamper their ability to be fully engaged in the educational process. We will also dedicate funding and resources to build technology infrastructure to eliminate digital divides in urban & rural communities and those low-wage earners lacking access to technology and internet including providing screen readers to the visually impaired and special equipment to those with physical or hearing challenges.
There can be no true social justice without economic equity! It is 2022 and Women still earn considerably less than their male counterparts for men in the same line of work. The average woman earns just 77¢ for every $1 made by a man in the same job. This wage gap will cost a woman $443K over the course of her career - enough to pay off a mortgage or to send three students to the University of California. And if you are a woman of color, that number gets even smaller: Black Women make just 63¢ and Latinx Women make just 54¢ for every $1 earned by a white man doing the same job. Those are crisis numbers -- and we owe it to women and their families to end pay discrimination. It costs a lot to live in the Bay and studies show an hourly wage of $44.00 is needed to truly 'live affordably'. In the absence of this, let us advocate for Income Equity through living wages based on prevailing wages or the federal wage determination register for the SF Bay Area with paid benefits with appropriate COLA and hazard pay adjustments and insist on the enforcement of existing wage & hour regulations. Current estimates indicate a minimum wage of $26.75/hr. plus $4.36/hr. in benefits. This rate varies based on industry. As well, we need true Workforce Development & Worker Justice that (a) enforces existing policies requiring local hires & respects, (b) support of workers’ rights to unionize, collectively bargain, & develop CLAs (community labor agreements) which reflect the needs of the community, (c) includes a progressive tax system tied to local budgets that prioritize workforce development & other needs of the community, (d) provide improved access to discounted/no-charge access to public transportation for low-income and workforce development community members, and (e) support community workforce development and pathways to employment programs to train workers for good-paying careers. We need to enforce & develop Equity Policies that promote racial, gender & cultural equity in employment & business development. We must create a central good governance program within the district with offices in each major city to track implementation of programs and social services policies. Protect and expand community programs and organizations. Enforcing existing policies and enacting new policies as required, with a significant focus on underserved/under-participating minority communities in priority and emerging industries. Working families have been hit hard over the past few years. we can support them by closing skills gap, wage gap, and keeping jobs here. We can work with local and regional governments to allocate federal, state, and local funding to create regional/state/federal jobs programs and 100,000s of infrastructure jobs to fix crumbling roads, bridges, unmaintained parks & open spaces, buildings, water, and wastewater systems. These programs will offer paid on-the-job-training opportunities and pay local prevailing wages or from the federal wage determination registers incl. benefits (vision, dental, medical, life) plus vacation & sick leave, with an uplift for hazardous duty or special equipment operation. These programs may offer career opportunities for many, Military Veterans, Wounded Warriors, Workers with disAbilities, reentry persons, displaced or transitioning workers, and others. Small businesses, the backbone of our economy and communities, are worth the investment and support; Cheryl has been and will continue to be a champion for their needs to get them resources to recover from the pandemic and continue to grow our economy. Cheryl has a proven record of creating worker-friendly policies and will utilize her 25+ years of experience of creating innovative workforce development initiatives to help close economic gaps for women and our most underserved and vulnerable groups including those considered 'unemployable', plus work with local leaders to obtain the funds we need to improve the conditions of our crumbling roads, structures, & public buildings, esp. in marginalized & low-income areas.
I have proven experience in providing workers with the skills & tools they need to attain & retain employment, I have a proven record of creating jobs, especially for those considered ‘unemployable’ I will utilize this experience to help create jobs & innovative approaches to workforce development to help close the economic gaps for the most underserved & vulnerable in our society.
I am dedicated to protecting human rights for all people through a justice system which focuses on intervention, prevention, rehabilitation, and true reform. This includes a system that reinvests a portion of law enforcement funds into community-based programs and services. That will directly benefit the community such as, education, diversion, rehabilitation, therapy, mental health, substance treatment, intervention, re-entry, etc. These services will aid in the balancing of the responsibility to provide safety for our communities by punishing those who commit the most serious of crimes, impose serious harm to the rest of us and represent a dangerous threat to our communities based on their perpetration of such serious crimes AND providing opportunities for redemption for those individuals who have made mistakes (committing less serious offenses) and deserve a second chance. A system which:
All of our residents deserve equal opportunity for access to quality, income-indexed housing. Housing which meets varying socioeconomic needs especially low-income, low-low-income, and moderate-income families which includes multi-family units, cluster housing, single-family homes, modular and prefabricated houses & townhouses must be high priority. As well, it is important we continue to build and advocate for safe, clean housing & supportive services for people experiencing homelessness, poverty, or chronic illness. As important, we need housing created specifically for our Veterans. We can create an inclusive, shared economy which does not uproot current residents.
Healthcare for everyone must be of priority concern as individual and community health is connected to social and economic conditions. In addition to comprehensive healthcare for everyone, it is imperative we fight for community health centers which focus on promoting preventative care and wellness for all of us, especially in our marginalized communities. This is an essential aspect of primary healthcare which has been downplayed and forgotten. Additionally, we also must not forget to include all residents in our healthcare conversations including those needing multi-lingual, ASL, multicultural, disAbility-related and culturally competent services, as well as protecting our undocumented neighbors who need care and assistance without fear of repression and deportation. We also must eliminate inherent discriminatory practices in healthcare which create inequities in access to and delivery in care and medical deserts that disproportionately affect our communities of color, elderly, low-income and low-low-income impoverished families, homeless, those with disAbilities, incarcerated and re-entry persons, those with language barriers, lack of transportation, access to care... In addition to fighting to ensure comprehensive healthcare - medical, dental, vision, mental health, life - is fully available to all in support of Medicare for All, we believe it important to continue fighting to mandate counties provide trauma-equipped medical centers in all areas, esp. marginalized communities. In addition, we will ensure equity is built into this single-payer health care system by allocating funding for hospitals and community care centers in rural and urban areas that are lacking access, as well as funding and resources to support the education and training of physicians, nurses and other medical professionals and staff to live and work in these communities impacted by lack of services, especially Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income and rural communities. When these professionals are inundated with $100ks in bills and loans, it is unlikely they are to return to these communities to work, but rather opt out to work in lucrative jobs in the private sector or more affluent communities. Offering relief from these payments will incentivize more medical professionals to return to work in our communities. This connection to community and the cultural competence they possess is rich, vitally important, and irreplaceable. We are painfully aware that medical coverage and actual access to care does not equate to equity, especially when a fair number of people reside in healthcare deserts. It is of little value to have an insurance account or card when the closest hospital is thirty or forty minutes away so a medical condition then may become an emergency medical situation or when Catholic Church-owned hospitals are permitted to refuse services like fertility treatments, abortions, birth control, or certain LGBTQI services, based on its religious ‘principles’, regardless of the patients' wants or needs. Single payer care would end health disparities, effectively control costs, and assure that everyone has equal access to an excellent standard of care, especially for these marginalized communities, and Black & Indigenous post-partum Women. It will also provide protections for people with pre-existing conditions, work to eliminate loopholes for insurance companies denying access to non-pharmaceutical based treatment programs. We have made this a priority, not only because the community has signaled it as a priority, yet because Quality Healthcare is a Human Right that the entire country should have.
The numbers speak for themselves, because not every veteran can:
I grew up in a military family and have been committed to fighting for Veteran Rights for over 35years. My stepfather, brothers, in-laws, and many family members & friends are current service members or Veterans. I know firsthand that sometimes the most painful injuries are not physical or readily visible. So, we have been dedicated to speaking up and advocating for those veterans who have lost their “voice”. We have stood up for them through targeted advocacy, compliance administration, policy making. Hill testimony, legislature visits, recommendations, self-advocacy training, research and outreach. Recognizing that reintegration resources and support, counseling, debt management and reduction are some of the services that get overlooked but are defiantly needed. The importance of facilitating the PTSD/TBI/Combat Stress evaluations, peer-to-peer support, suicide prevention, case management services, and coordinating service administration with federal and state agencies. As with all cases of equity and justice, this fight is to ensure all Veterans have access to and receive equal treatment and their earned benefits, rehabilitative and professional services, education, training, healthcare, and financial assistance because we as a nation owe it to them. Because of the sacrifices they have made we can continue to live in a free country.
Many Veterans experience significant frustration trying to access benefits - usually due to the conditions and circumstances surrounding their service and their discharge. We will allocate funding to ensure that not one veteran will ever lack housing or medical care or mental health services. We you exit service, will ensure you have transitional employment and career training, if you need it. You promised us your life, we have you for life. We will set aside enough funds to more efficiently run the VA so not another soldier has to wait 13 years for a determination hearing as my Stepdad (a decorated Army Vet, 2 purple heart, two tour Vietnam Vet) has experienced since 2009 and my double amputee decorated Army vet uncle is experiencing now. We will allocate funding and incentivize local builders to provide housing to Veterans and their families at affordable rates so they can return to their communities. Collaborating with the Wounded Warrior Project and the VA, we have staunchly supported empowering these warriors and giving them the voice to seek the support they need to begin their journey to recovery and to build the resilience they will need to thrive.
All People, including those of us with disAbilities, have the inalienable right to live and participate in our society free of discrimination or harassment and be provided equal access and equal opportunities to every aspect of society including employment, housing and participation in politics. We advocate and champion for the rights of individuals with intellectual, developmental, physical, emotional/social, psychological, neuro/sensory, and other disAbilities by promoting inclusion, working with local/state/national organizations to advance inclusive communities through advocacy, research, professional development, & policymaking. We also advocate training People with disAbilities to be self-advocates to increase their political and economic power, to speak publicly on issues that affect the community, to accompany elected officials to Sacramento and Washington DC to speak with legislators regarding disAbility Awareness, WIOA, and the AbilityOne Program. People with disAbilities, including our Veterans/Wounded Warriors, also have the right to living in the integrated community setting of our choice. As well, we have the right to access quality supports and services based on personal preferences and needs to assist with being fully included in the greater community, for example (a) to ensure accessibility of polling places and voting technology which permit us to fully participate in the political process or (b) housing policies which provide access to affordable non-segregated, non-provider-owned housing. In addition we insist agencies are fully compliant with all programmatic, fiscal, and administrative contract requirements, especially those concerning ADA, ADEA and EEO regulations. We are most concerned with ensuring human rights protections and inclusion for people with significant disAbilities and supports needs are met for those most vulnerable to segregation, abuse, neglect, and marginalization. Particularly, ensuring (a) equal access to transportation services for people with disAbilities including improved accessibility in public transportation and substantial investment in accessible transit options and transit-oriented development; (b) that all people with disAbilities have the right to equal opportunity in employment, to be economically self-sufficient, and to earn and save without jeopardizing access to the types of services and supports that allow them to live and work independently; and (c) comprehensive access to education from preschool through post-graduate work including advocacy, partnerships with educational institutions, and programs designed to break down barriers to education. This last point being particularly important as education is the cornerstone of realizing the ADA’s goals of People with disAbilities' full participation in society, independent living, economic self-sufficiency, and equal opportunity.
Civil Rights are Human Rights and Human Rights are a birth right. No one, regardless of their supposed race, color, nationality, national origin or culture needs to prove their humanity! Each of us has already proven our rightful existence by virtue of being born. Almost all of us were awarded a certificate for it when we left the hospital - or shortly thereafter. Inherent in being born Human is the basic right to not be harassed, no matter one's ethnicity, race, color, culture, national origin nationality... My life's work has resolved around EQUITY with a chief proponent around Racial Justice. As a Woman of Color, especially a Black/Brown Muslimah Woman with a disAbility, all of my work is done through an anti-racism and intersectional lens as I am dedicated to ensuring no person is subjected to racism or inequity on the basis of color, race, nationality or national origin. As an ACLU Board Member, a Steering Committee Member of the Racial Justice Coalition and the Immigration Rights Alliance and a member of the multiFaith Coalition and multi-Racial Task Force, I am dedicated to combating racism in all forms and fighting for equity for all persons while addressing the myriad of issues that disproportionately and negatively impact people of color. For me, Human Rights are indivisible and I am committed to identifying and fighting against those barriers to equality and justice that are imposed by racism. This includes equity and accountability in all areas of equal opportunity and social justice - employment, education, policing and justice systems determinations. Every person deserves a right to live without fear of intimidation or harassment - a right to good-paying job opportunities (with equal pay based on skills), a right to paid benefits, a right to unfettered access to quality public education, a right to the opportunity to exercise one's right to vote without interference or issue, a right to access adequate quality y affordable healthcare, and the right to constitutional due process no matter one's ethnicity, national origin or economic status. As an advocate for fair and impartial policing policies, it is imperative equity, transparency and accountability to the public around issues of bias and use-of-force protocols be adequately addressed. In addition, I especially condemn the racism that inflicts the double burden of race and sex discrimination on Women of Color and the additional burdens that impact Women of Color who are also Muslim or Jewish (or Buddhist, Sikh or simply non-Christian) and/or Women with disAbilities. I continue to be committed to fighting for equal opportunities for women of color in all areas including employment, education and reproductive rights.
Ecology, Environment, Energy y Environmental Justice As an Environmental Scientist, Cellular & Molecular Biologist and Biochemist, and a good steward of the land, fighting for environmental justice is a high priority especially in our communities disproportionately impacted by hazardous environmental conditions and harmful corporate practices. Every single one of us has a shared interest in preserving, protecting, and sustaining this planet which sustains us. We deserve clean air. We deserve clean water. Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Safe and affordable drinking water is a basic Human Right in this country, and it is especially critical that people have access to safe running water during the current COVID-19 pandemic. But 130 million people in the U.S., and over 130k people in California, disproportionately in communities of color and low-income communities, receive their water from tainted water supply systems that are putting them at increased risk of cancer, infertility, developmental delays, and other significant health impacts. The Safe Drinking Water Act is meant to protect us from these threats but when it comes to race and income, the nation's federal drinking water laws do not equally protect everyone. In 2020, our deep systemic environmental racial inequities have been exposed and exacerbated by the pandemic. It revealed how we have been ignoring communities of color that we treated as if they were expendable. Each of us has a shared responsibility to ensure every community in our nation - regardless of ethnic, cultural, or economic makeup to address disparate impact of our industrial society. It shouldn’t matter if you live in a areas of color, low-income or a marginalized community, access to clean water shouldn’t have to be made into a law, when you live in this country. Pollution of our drinking water sources, decades of poor oversight, underinvestment in drinking water infrastructure, many people throughout our country at great risk. Water systems across this nation are still using old lead service lines, which means tens of millions of us in most communities, wherever you pay taxes you could drinking toxic chemicals. We need to fix and fund the Safe Drinking Water Act by strengthening standards and increasing access to safe drinking water for communities of color and low-income communities by identifying and funding critical water infrastructure projects, including removing the 6-10 million lead service lines still in use; prevent water contamination by effectively controlling industrial and agribusiness pollution and by expanding the list of chemicals and substances regulated under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, including toxic PFAS chemicals; and enforce the law to ensure safe drinking water for all. Environment. In this vein, we need to actively protest any type of fracking activity and promote a halt to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We must demand legislation on renewable electricity generation and decrease our reliance on nuclear power, while still working towards more environmentally sound transportation alternatives to reduce driving, highway congestion and pollution. Agriculture & Food Safety. In regard to Food Safety, we must continue to ensure farmers and other food producers are held accountable to assuring accurate food labeling, food safety guidelines, ridding of pesticides, and promoting urban gardens. As well, they must guarantee safe working conditions for workers and humane treatment of animals. Cattle are the Top Source of Methane Emissions in the US. Cows are responsible for about 40% of global methane emissions. Methane is the gas passed or belched by the world's 1.4 billion cattle. Livestock accounts for 37% of all U.S. methane emissions, and cattle are responsible for much of that, producing 86.2% of that methane. About two-thirds of cow emissions come from burps, while the remaining one-third is from manure management. Producing methane is considered a waste of energy for a cow. The less they produce, the more efficient they are at turning cattle feed into human food. According to Oxford University's Joseph Poore, judged against the nutrition it provides, beef is simply too environmentally expensive and found that a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas production is different from a 100% reduction, which is what we would get if people stopped eating meat. "Beef provides about 6% of our protein and 2% of the global calorie, worldwide," Poore said. "If you look at the environmental impacts, beef is about 30% of our greenhouse foods greenhouse gas emissions, so you got a massive imbalance between the kind of environmental impacts of this product and the nutrition it provides." When we account for methane from cow burps and cow manure, cows account for 31.5% of all methane emissions in the U.S., which makes them the number one source of methane emissions in the country. Other sources of methane emissions include natural gas production at 23.9%, landfills at 17.4% and wastewater at 2.8%, according to EPA data. Climate scientists say greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced dramatically in order to prevent catastrophic global warming. At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, over 100 countries including the United States agreed to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030. Accountability. We also need proactive legislation to support accountability for energy storage systems, incentives for affordable solar systems, reduction of fossil fuel emissions, protection of water sources from contamination, reduction of California's dependence on natural gas and replacing with renewable energy, reduction of plastic pollution, and sustainable conservation efforts of natural resources and public lands.
Immigration can be a tough subject. We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy. Yet, good-intentioned people can disagree on how to fix our immigration system and make it work for everyone. The previous Administration's crackdown on undocumented Californians and their families, has left many of us living in fear. Over the years, politicians from both parties have tried to work on a legislation to address immigrants who came to the country with their parents when they were children (DREAMers), their families, residents on temporary protected status permits (TPS program), as well as other undocumented residents. That bill never materialized. Now, the futures of over millions of people still await Congressional action... And lives have been left in limbo... We need to establish meaningful legislation that will create stability and safety in our communities, promote economic opportunity and provide required amnesty and citizenship paths for DACA and TPS applicants and their families. We need to support meaningful sanctuary policies, including maintaining & reinforcing school district policies, prioritize funding for rapid response programs. Support organizations that provide legal and support services to defend undocumented residents facing detention &/or deportation. We also need comprehensive oversight of the implementation and enforcement of SB-54 including monitoring and auditing law enforcement's contact and dealings with ICE to ensure stated practices match with stated policies as well as the intent of the regulations. This oversight must include a mandate to eliminate any voluntary cooperation between law enforcement and Immigration Officials, that Law Enforcement track and thoroughly report any and all interactions with Immigration Officials and hold TRUTH Act public forums as mandated under the law. Additionally, we must ensure humane treatment of all persons being held in state and county detention centers and jails. We must also make sure that all Law Enforcement personnel must be held accountable for any and all mistreatment/abuse of all individuals, codified in a Detainees' Bill of Rights and legislation that ensure Detainees' due process. Lastly, we believe it is time for the U.S. to eliminate ICE and return enforcement of the immigration system to the U.S. Department of Justice. The lack of oversight of ICE and the abuse of its authority has resulted in horrific humanitarian concerns at the border. We cannot allow this to continue.[7] |
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| —Cheryl Sudduth's campaign website (2022)[8] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official candidate list," accessed March 28, 2014
- ↑ Cheryl Sudduth Facebook page, "Info," accessed May 21, 2012
- ↑ Cheryl Sudduth For Congress, "About Me," accessed May 21, 2012
- ↑ The New York Times, "California Primary Results," June 3, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official primary candidate list," accessed March 13, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Unofficial election results," November 6, 2012 (dead link)
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Cheryl Sudduth, “Issues,” accessed May 18, 2022
