In public service, I’ve delivered cleaner air, new homes for working families, support for human trafficking survivors, and affordable housing where homeless encampments stood.
As county supervisor, I’ll find common sense solutions to important problems. A top priority: addressing the epidemic of severely mentally ill and drug addicted people on our streets. Recent data showed 79 people consumed $12.5 million of our fire department’s budget in the last five years.
It’s time to act. I’ll do what others won’t: I’ll ignore extremists who demand the status quo. I’ll mandate treatment to save time, money and lives.”
ER Social Worker/UPTE Health Co-Chair
Homelessness should be brief and rare. In Sacramento, if you’re suffering from untreated drug addiction or serious mental illness, that’s not the case. I see this over and over in the ER.”
President, Sacramento Area Firefighters, Local 522
Firefighters see the same ‘frequent flyers’ every shift. Drug addicted or mentally ill, they have sapped $12.5 million from firefighting budgets, delayed response times and put lives at risk.”
As a child, Eric worked long days in California’s agricultural fields alongside his brother and mom. Living without documentation they “followed the fruit” harvesting every crop under the sun.
This work drove Eric into public service, where he helped pass the California DREAM Act, bolster housing for farmworkers and fund legal defense for immigrants targeted by Trump administration deportations.
As a Sac State freshman, Eric couldn’t afford housing, spending many nights in his car. He knows what it means to help people living on the edge.
That’s why Eric’s is focused on getting “high-utilizers”—severely mentally ill and drug addicted homeless people known for repeated fire department and emergency room visits—into long-term care that will save their lives, make better use of taxpayer dollars and focus first responders on true emergencies.
Eric has a degree from Sac State in engineering. He knows how to take broken systems and improve outcomes.
Eric transformed the former site of a homeless encampment into 200 units of affordable housing for seniors and working families. He’s working for more permanent solutions, especially ones that keep homeless people from camping in parks or near childcare centers.
Eric refused to allow city childcare programs to close, going out and securing over a million dollars in funding.
