Ending Corruption: Putting People Over Powerful Interests

For too long, Washington has worked for the well-connected instead of the people it’s supposed to serve. Corporate lobbyists write the rules, billion-dollar companies dodge taxes, and families pay the price through higher costs, unsafe infrastructure, and broken systems that never seem to get fixed.

Ending corruption isn’t an abstract idea — it’s essential to lowering costs, protecting public safety, and restoring the American Dream. Eric believes corruption is at the root of the affordability crisis, and real reform starts with changing who government answers to.

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.

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

Hold PG&E and Utility Monopolies Accountable

In communities across Napa, 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

Real Transparency and Ethics Reform

Ending corruption means changing how Washington works.
Eric supports:

  • Stronger ethics rules and transparency requirements

  • Closing the revolving door between government and corporate lobbying

  • Enforcing strict disclosure of political spending and conflicts of interest