PRIORITY ISSUES

Cesar will prioritize funding public schools from preschool to college. Cesar has stood alongside teachers, students & community members fighting to restore funding to all levels of education.
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Cesar is a pro abortion candidate, because abortion is healthcare. Women & people with reproductive organs have a right to body autonomy. Their freedom to reproductive choice & privacy of that choice should be protected under law.

Cesar's upbringing in a strong union family has made it a priority for him to fight to get rid of Arizona’s Right-to-Work laws. Families need job security, healthcare, a livable wage, and a pension.

Cesar knows we need short term & long term solutions to the housing crisis in Arizona. This means supporting non-profits tackling the problem of homelessness to provide temporary housing to people who are homeless. In the long term, we need to ensure permanent housing for all individuals by enforcing rent control on a statewide level. Further, Cesar believe families with disabilities and on fixed incomes should not see increases in rent or property taxes. 

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Cesar will work on expanding Medicaid to all working families; because all families deserve to have healthcare. Working families are one sickness or accident away from losing everything they've worked for.

Cesar is a strong supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. This past legislative session Cesar brought students down to the capitol to advocate against bills attacking Arizona's LGBTQIA+ youth and is committed to continue fighting to classify people who are trans as a protected class. 

Cesar firmly believe that we all deserve equal treatment and protection under the law. Criminal Justice Reform is desperately needed as Arizona has the fifth highest imprisonment rate in the country and taxpayers spend more than $1 billion on the prison system every year. Taxpayers now spend more on prisons than higher education. There is a large racial disparity among Arizona's prison population, with both Latinx and black people being overrepresented when compared to their state populations.  
This is because racial disparity is a part of every aspect of the criminal justice system from arrests made, all the way to post conviction consequences. We need criminal justice reform to address racial disparity now!

Cesar knows we need to pass common sense gun reform that includes: 
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- background checks for all gun sales
-restricting  people convicted of domestic abuse from owning a gun
-banning anyone convicted of a hate crime from being able to purchase a weapon
-banning assault rifles
​-raising the age to own and carry a gun to 21