candidate_id: betty-t-yee

candidate_name: Betty T. Yee

claim_type: assertion

event_title: Yee campaign biography and budget background

party: Democratic

text: Yee says she helped establish a minimum wage for home care workers as part of expanding economic opportunity.

theme_id: labor

theme_label: Labor


claim_type: recommendation

text: Use strict budget accountability, oversight, program evaluation, and transparent deliberation before new spending or tax increases.

theme_id: budget-government-accountability

theme_label: Budget Government Accountability


text: Yee says she pushed environmental policies including helping implement a state law requiring automakers to reduce carbon emissions.

theme_id: energy

theme_label: Energy


event_title: Yee campaign priorities interview

text: Use state finance experience to make taxpayer dollars deliver real results.

theme_id: fiscal-accountability

theme_label: Fiscal Accountability


text: Address affordability and expand economic opportunity across California regions.

theme_id: affordability

theme_label: Affordability


text: Improve access to health care and quality education.

theme_id: health-care-education

theme_label: Health Care Education


claim_type: pushback

event_title: Yee KQED budget-deficit interview page

text: Yee says she opposes a proposed tax on California billionaires while advancing a plan that includes spending cuts and economic growth to address fiscal challenges.

theme_id: taxes

theme_label: Taxes


event_title: Yee UC Riverside health-care forum page

text: Yee says California should reduce rising health-care costs for working families.

theme_id: health-care

theme_label: Health Care


text: Treat health care as an economic priority by expanding access in underserved regions, reducing costs, and strengthening public-health infrastructure.


text: Yee frames health care as central to California's economic agenda and says the state should expand access in underserved regions such as the Inland Empire.


event_title: Yee why I'm running page

text: Build regional economic opportunity while advancing climate resilience and environmental justice with accountable, practical implementation.

theme_id: climate-regional-opportunity

theme_label: Climate Regional Opportunity


event_title: KQED Political Breakdown: Betty Yee on Fixing California's Budget Deficit

text: Yee argues that the president's actions have harmed women's access to reproductive health care, including by defunding Planned Parenthood and limiting abortion services for some women.


event_title: Black Action Alliance / KTVU / KTTV California gubernatorial debate

text: Yee says she would fix California's state budget so that it better serves working Californians.

theme_id: governance

theme_label: Governance


claim_type: observation

text: Advanced unclaimed-property and state payroll modernization work: Controller reporting describes automatic-return legislation for public entities and expedited release of Cal Employee Connect.

theme_id: state-administration-unclaimed-property

theme_label: State Administration Unclaimed Property


text: Controller office reported uncovering waste, abuse, and fiscal mismanagement: A State Controller release credited Yee's team with uncovering over $4.2 billion in waste, abuse, and fiscal mismanagement during her first term.

theme_id: fiscal-oversight

theme_label: Fiscal Oversight