We recommend voting for Josh Fryday for Lieutenant Governor.

The Lieutenant Governor sits on the State Lands Commission, holds voting seats on the UC Regents, CSU Trustees, and Community Colleges Board of Governors, and chairs the Commission for Economic Development. Most candidates treat this office as a stepping stone. Fryday treats it as a job — and he has a specific plan for every one of those tools.

His top priority is housing, and his plan is the most ambitious in this field. California's public universities and state agencies sit on vast amounts of developable land near jobs and transit. Fryday wants to use his board votes to push every UC, CSU, and community college campus to build student and workforce housing on that land — with a target of a million units committed or permitted on public and campus land, tracked and reported publicly. The model already exists: UC Irvine's University Hills provides below-market-rate housing for faculty and staff on university land through long-term leases with developers. Fryday wants to scale that across every campus in the state. He'd also use the State Lands Commission to unlock surplus state parcels near job centers and transit corridors for housing production.

We have become the party of good intentions and I will make it my top priority to refocus us on the only thing that matters, which is results.

Josh FrydayCandidate for Lieutenant Governor

The Lieutenant Governor also chairs the Commission for Economic Development — a body that hasn't met in over 15 years. Fryday plans to relaunch it, bringing together business, labor, and higher education leaders to coordinate on workforce needs, clean energy investment, and the business environment. It's exactly the kind of dormant tool a motivated Lieutenant Governor should be dusting off.

Fryday would use the State Lands Commission to fast-track permitting for offshore wind and solar on public lands. Interconnection wait times for new projects have ballooned from under two years to over five — and building at the sites of retiring fossil fuel infrastructure could cut those timelines to under a year. He also supported extending the Diablo Canyon nuclear lease, a pragmatic call that prioritizes carbon-neutral energy production over ideological purity.

California's construction workforce has been hollowed out, driving up labor costs and slowing down the housing production the state desperately needs. Fryday built CaliforniaVolunteers into the largest service corps in the country as California's Chief Service Officer, and he wants to expand apprenticeships, community college-to-career pipelines, and bring trade certifications into high schools through "credit for prior learning" programs — so students can earn credentials for real work experience before they graduate. His father worked in construction, and he's been blunt about the fact that California has valued four-year degrees over the trades for too long.

What about Michael Tubbs?

Michael Tubbs has real governing experience — as Mayor of Stockton, he took over a city reeling from the largest municipal bankruptcy in California history and turned it around. Homicides dropped 40%, and his guaranteed income pilot showed that direct cash support helped people find work. He also served as Governor Newsom's special advisor on economic mobility. We gave the edge to Fryday because he has a more specific plan for using the office's statutory tools — the board seats, the State Lands Commission, the Economic Development Commission — and his targets on housing and clean energy are the most concrete and measurable in this field.