Real problems demand real leadership. Here's what I'm fighting for.
Working families across the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley are being priced out of the communities they built. State housing law, permitting delays, and Sacramento regulations that strangle housing supply are now the dominant drivers. The State Assembly writes California's housing laws, sets the fees and mandates that get stacked onto every new home, and decides how long a permit takes. Sacramento can stop punishing families who simply want to afford a home where they work.
Every family deserves to feel safe in their neighborhood. California's criminal laws are written in Sacramento, and Sacramento's soft-on-crime experiments have left our communities paying the price. I will support the men and women who keep us safe, fight to restore real consequences for theft, violent crime, and the dealers pushing fentanyl into our neighborhoods, and reject state policies that treat law and order as optional.
California's public schools are funded and governed from Sacramento. The state budget, the education code, career and technical training, and apprenticeship pathways all run through the State Legislature. I will fight to make state education dollars follow students and outcomes rather than bureaucracies, expand pathways into the trades and the technology economy, and treat parents as partners in their own children's education.
I have built companies. I have signed the front of paychecks. I know how California's taxes, fees, and regulators decide who gets to grow and who gets to close. Sacramento has made it harder, year after year, to run a small business in California. I will fight for a state tax and regulatory environment that rewards people who create real jobs and real products, and I will defend the right of an immigrant with a laptop and an idea to build something that scales.
State policy on insurance markets, Medi-Cal, and healthcare regulation decides whether California families can afford to be sick. I will push for honest pricing, real competition, and state rules that treat patients as customers rather than line items, without abandoning the seniors, veterans, and working families who depend on the safety net.
I came to America legally. I waited. I worked. I earned my citizenship. Immigration is one of America's greatest sources of strength, and while immigration law is written at the federal level, Sacramento decides how California treats the immigrants who live, work, and build businesses here. I will fight for state policies that reward people who follow the rules, help legal immigrants succeed, and refuse to weaponize the issue against either the immigrants who chose this country or the Americans who welcomed them.
California is home to one of the largest Armenian communities in the nation. As an Armenian-American veteran of the Armenian Armed Forces, I will be a voice in Sacramento for the Armenian community, for genocide education in California classrooms, and for the cultural institutions that keep our heritage alive. Keeping faith with the diaspora communities who helped build this state is not a slogan to me. It is personal.
Sacramento keeps spending money it does not have on programs that do not deliver. Every year of waste makes the eventual reckoning harder for working families, for small business, and for the Californians who depend on the services the state actually owes them. I will not pretend the problem isn't real. I will support hard-edged spending review, honest budgeting, and the discipline that real fiduciaries bring to organizations they care about surviving.
Working families in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley are being priced out by state housing law, permitting delays, and Sacramento regulations that strangle housing supply. Zhirayr will use the Assembly's authority over California's housing laws, fees, and permitting rules to lower the barriers to building and owning a home.
California's criminal laws are written in Sacramento, and soft-on-crime state policies have left our communities paying the price. Zhirayr will support the men and women who keep us safe, fight to restore real consequences for theft, violent crime, and fentanyl dealing, and reject state policies that treat law and order as optional.
California's public schools are funded and governed from Sacramento through the state budget and the education code. Zhirayr will fight to make state education dollars follow students and outcomes, expand pathways into the trades and the technology economy, and treat parents as partners in their own children's education.
Zhirayr has built companies and signed the front of paychecks. He will fight for a state tax and regulatory environment that rewards people who create real jobs, and he will defend the right of the next immigrant with an idea to build something that scales.
State policy on insurance markets, Medi-Cal, and healthcare regulation decides whether California families can afford to be sick. Zhirayr will push for honest pricing, real competition, and state rules that treat patients as customers, without abandoning the seniors, veterans, and working families who depend on the safety net.
Zhirayr came to America legally, waited, worked, and earned his citizenship. While immigration law is written at the federal level, Sacramento decides how California treats the immigrants who live and work here. He will fight for state policies that reward people who follow the rules, help legal immigrants succeed, and refuse to weaponize the issue against either the immigrants who chose this country or the Americans who welcomed them.
As an Armenian-American veteran of the Armenian Armed Forces, Zhirayr will be a voice in Sacramento for California's Armenian community, for genocide education in California classrooms, and for the cultural institutions that keep Armenian heritage alive. Keeping faith with the diaspora communities who helped build this state is personal to him.
Sacramento keeps spending money it does not have on programs that do not deliver. Zhirayr will not pretend the problem isn't real. He will support hard-edged spending review, honest budgeting, and the discipline that real fiduciaries bring to organizations they care about surviving.