Ending Corruption: Accountability and Results for Our Community

For too long, Washington has worked for powerful corporations and special interests instead of the people it’s meant to serve. Corporate PAC money floods elections, lobbyists shape policy behind closed doors, and billion-dollar companies exploit loopholes to avoid paying their fair share — while families pay the price through higher costs, unsafe infrastructure, and broken systems.

Ending corruption isn’t symbolic — it’s how we lower costs, protect public safety, and rebuild trust in government. Eric Jones believes corruption is at the root of the affordability crisis, and real reform starts by changing who government answers to and how power is held accountable.

Eric’s plan focuses on real results: ending corporate influence, making corporations pay what they owe, and reinvesting those dollars into healthcare, housing, and cost-cutting programs that help families thrive.

The Problem: A System Rigged for Corporations

Today, powerful corporations use campaign cash, lobbying, and loopholes to tilt the system in their favor:

  • Utility monopolies like PG&E raise rates while avoiding real accountability for safety failures.

  • Big Pharma price-gouges families while blocking reforms that would lower drug costs.

  • Large corporations pay little or nothing in taxes, shifting the burden onto working families.

  • Politicians take corporate PAC money and then claim nothing can change.

The result is a system where families work harder every year — and still fall behind.

Eric’s Plan to End Corruption

Ban Corporate PAC Money

Eric will not take corporate PAC money — and will fight to ban it altogether. Elected officials should answer to voters, not corporate donors with armies of lobbyists. Ending corruption means changing how Washington works. Eric supports:

  • Strengthen ethics rules so elected officials can’t use public office for personal gain

  • Ban members of Congress from trading stocks while in office

  • Require full transparency around meetings with corporate lobbyists and special interests

Make Corporations Pay Their Fair Share

While working families pay their taxes, many of the largest corporations pay next to nothing.
Eric will:

  • Restore corporate tax rates to Obama-era levels

  • Close loopholes that allow corporations like PG&E, Big Pharma, and others to pay zero

  • Use corporate tax dollars to lower costs, fund healthcare, and invest in housing and infrastructure

  • Close the revolving door between government and corporate lobbying

  • Prohibit senior government officials from cashing in with industries they once regulated

Hold PG&E and Utility Monopolies Accountable

In communities across Napa, Yolo, Sonoma, Yuba, Colusa, Sutter, and Placer Counties, families live with the consequences of corporate negligence — wildfires, blackouts, and skyrocketing utility bills.
Eric will:

  • End the cycle of bailouts that let PG&E pass costs onto ratepayers

  • Tie executive pay and corporate profits to safety and affordability outcomes

  • Push for stronger federal oversight and explore public or cooperative alternatives

End Big Pharma Price Gouging

No family should have to choose between paying rent and filling a prescription.
Eric will:

  • Take on Big Pharma’s lobbying power

  • Lower prescription drug prices through negotiation and competition

  • Close loopholes that protect monopolies instead of patients

Sunlight on Money and Influence

  • Enforce strict disclosure of all political spending — including dark money and shell organizations

  • Require candidates and elected officials to disclose financial conflicts of interest in real time

  • Hold corporations and political groups accountable for hiding donors or misleading the public