United Forward California.

With Cole Harris for Lt. Governor.

  • Self-made businessman.
  • Successful job creator.
  • A pathway forward for all Californians.

Meet Cole Harris

Self-made family man, businessman and entrepreneur.

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is the land where dreams are made,

or is it?

We need to address state spending, improve education, and repair infrastructure. Our future is united forward, California.

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Cole Harris is not a politician.

Harris is a self-made businessman and entrepreneur who has been creating California jobs from the time he built and grew his first business.

It was his determination, hard work, blood, sweat, and tears that set him on a path to opening those doors for fellow Californians to rise up with him.

As Lieutenant Governor, one of Harris’ responsibilities will be to pursue economic development in that State.

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Today, Harris is a business leader and job creator who created hundreds of direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs.

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An award-winning business leader, Harris has most notably been the recipient of the Corporate Stewardship Award for Small Business from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Harris founded his first business at the young age of 14 and another while in college. Subsequently, he started two additional businesses, Symtech and Capital Stone. In starting those businesses, Harris faced significant adversity and had to overcome many obstacles.

Through hard work and perseverance, Harris grew into a successful businessman with strategic relationships throughout the globe. In his career, he routinely worked to encourage innovative ideas, fostering a culture of cooperation and consensus building. He will bring this approach with him to Sacramento.

With Cole Harris leading the way, our families will see new jobs and opportunities. Cole Harris asks for your vote on June 5, 2018 and to unite & help him with making the future of California “shine golden”.

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Cole Harris is a proud Californian from the Los Angeles area whose plan will improve the quality of life for every Californian, including addressing state spending, repairing our aging infrastructure, development of a modified health care system, improvement of affordable housing and reduction in homelessness.

Harris and his wife, Cindy, live in the Los Angeles area, where they are raising their two sons, Dylan (8) and Dax (3), and Cole coaches little league baseball and basketball.

Harris is personally and financially involved in numerous California charities.

One of Harris’ most significant investments is in a company that provides daily fresh meals to over one hundred thousand school children. Harris serves as a Foundation Board Member of the Arcadia Methodist Hospital and Board Member of the International Leadership Fund. Closer to home, Mr. and Mrs. Harris support their school’s PTA and are sponsors of a motocross racing team.

Harris is fluent in English and Mandarin and converses in Spanish.

California, we can do better.

Let’s unite and move forward.

United Forward with Cole Harris,

We Can Do Better, California.

Our future is united forward, California …

With Cole Harris for Lt. Governor.

California is the land where dreams are made, where the only limits to our success are our own imaginations and drive. Or is it?

State government’s unkept promises of fiscal responsibility have left us with over $1 trillion in debt, the highest taxes in the nation, lost jobs, failing schools, and crumbling infrastructure.

For too long, ideologies and divisiveness have gotten in the way of real solutions to these problems.

We need to reform our tax code and pension system. We have the highest taxes in the nation.

We need to make infrastructure repair a priority and ensure accountability and transparency in the process.

Our future is united forward, California.

Cole Harris Has a Plan.

Tax Reform

California has some of the highest tax rates in the country.

To retain existing businesses and to attract new businesses to the State, we need to lower the corporate rate and personal income rate, and enact a lower capital gains rate. We must stop the exodus of Californian businesses and wealthy residents who chose to relocate out of state to avoid California’s overly burdensome taxes.

Debt

Between bonds, loans, other debts, and outstanding pension liabilities, California is facing a $1 trillion wall of debt, equal to approximately eight full years of state budget spending. This debt is threatening the fiscal stability of the state. If it is not addressed, continuing increases in state – level debt and the related debt payments will leave reduced funds for essential state services.

Rather than focus on this looming debt, our state leaders have chosen time and again to increase spending. Harris intends to focus on reducing state – level debt as one of his high priority items.

Infrastructure

Our infrastructure is dangerously outdated. California currently has a $137 billion backlog in construction maintenance, but finding ways to finance these improvements continue to be a struggle. Last year, California enacted a 10-year, $52 billion state gas tax and vehicle fee designed to pay for road and bridge repair and increase mass transit options. This tax adds to the already heavy tax burden Californians pay.

Healthcare

Second only to education in state spending on a yearly basis, healthcare costs in California have escalated in recent years.

In the past decade, Medi-Cal costs have more than doubled, with a large portion of this increase due to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act and a growing number of retirees across the state. While the number of enrollees is expected to continue to rise, the federal payment share will decrease, creating an even greater budget hole for state leaders to fill.

Education

We currently spend almost half our state budget on education, yet we have some of the worst public schools in the country. In order to improve our schools, we must help create a system that is conducive to learning.

We must ensure students are learning the skills needed for the 21st century economy and are not simply accumulating massive student loan debt in service of an outdated educational model that stresses four-year colleges are the only path to success.

California is facing a middle skills gap: the demand for jobs that require more than just a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree outpaces the number of Californians who are qualified to fill those jobs. We must do more to promote community colleges, trade schools, and job training and apprenticeships programs to help train the next generation to fill these jobs.