Who is pastor and tech executive Sam Gallucci, candidate in California recall election

Name: Sam Gallucci

Political party: Republican

Residence: Oxnard

Occupation: Pastor, CEO

Education: San Diego State University, bachelor of science

Experience: 40 year career in businesses, technology pioneer in the area of CRM. I know how to create jobs and help small businesses grow. I’ve built an organization that cares for homeless, at risk women and children, and migrant farm workers. I am a pastor to over 1,000 Latinos. I know how to solve the homeless crisis without throwing taxpayer dollars at the problem because of my compassion experience caring for this community.

Website: samgallucci.com

What precautions, if any, should California continue to take to cope with COVID-19 and its variants?

Freedom to Californians to make the choices that best suit their family. We must educate Californians on COVID and its variants and let people make their own decisions. We must end these unscientific mask mandates! Small businesses are shuttered and thousands of Californians are out of work because of a failed COVID response. We must open the state up and allow businesses to open and for Californians to get back to work!

California provided cash support to individuals and small businesses during the pandemic. To what extent should that assistance continue?

We must put people back to work. I would propose a work vouchers program to replace unemployment. Use these vouchers to provide small businesses the funds to pay salaries and wages. We must ensure they are spent only on workers wages of employees. Instead of paying unemployment we will pay people to go back to work to get California’s economy working again!

What more would you do to address California’s housing crisis?

We must ease the environmental restrictions on home building. We must reduce the redcap that prevents homes from being built. There is a shortage of homes because it is expensive and difficult to build. We must cut back the regulations that drive up the cost of home building and build more homes. We must lower taxes and increase wages to ensure people can afford to buy homes. Lastly, we must build master planned communities for low income families. Homes people can afford.

What should California do to build up its middle class?

We must ensure everyone who wants a job can find a job. That will be a top priority for my administration. We MUST cut income, sales, and gas taxes to ensure we are letting the middle class keep more of their hard earned dollars.

Would you propose any new policies to address climate change?

We need to improve our electrical grid via clean power options. We must replace power options with low temp nuclear and increase solar and hydro-electric plants. There are more ways to get power to communities, and we must explore those options. Coal is not the only way forward.

What should California do in the long term to address wildfire and drought conditions?

My administration will employ better forest management solutions. We will reduce power lines, and expand desalinization water plants to increase water our state can use. We must create more water storage to capture water and hold it. Storage is a top solution to our water crisis. We must provide new and viable solutions to prevent wildfires and solve California’s drought.

This story was originally published August 12, 2021 at 5:00 AM with the headline "Who is pastor and tech executive Sam Gallucci, candidate in California recall election."