candidate_id: chad-bianco

candidate_name: Chad Bianco

claim_type: assertion

event_title: CalMatters Governor Q&A Transcripts

party: Republican

text: Bianco says California's tax structure is unfair because he believes higher earners are punished with higher taxes.

theme_id: taxes

theme_label: Taxes


claim_type: recommendation

text: Bianco says he would make California more affordable by removing what he characterizes as excessive regulations across industries.

theme_id: cost-of-living

theme_label: Cost of Living


event_title: Bianco affordability and taxes priority page

text: Bianco's campaign says it would stop over-regulation and unleash California's energy resources to lower gas and utility prices.

theme_id: energy

theme_label: Energy


text: Bianco's campaign says it would cut taxes on working families and businesses as part of an agenda to make California more affordable.


text: Cut taxes on working families and businesses, stop overregulation, and unleash California energy resources to lower gas and utility costs.

theme_id: taxes-affordability

theme_label: Taxes Affordability


event_title: Bianco campaign site

text: Demand accountability for homelessness spending and challenge current Sacramento approaches.

theme_id: homelessness-spending

theme_label: Homelessness Spending


text: Restore law-and-order policy, strengthen accountability for crime, and support law enforcement.

theme_id: public-safety

theme_label: Public Safety


event_title: Bianco education page

text: Push an education approach centered on school accountability and parental/family priorities.

theme_id: education

theme_label: Education


event_title: Bianco emergency response priority page

text: Expand forest management, controlled burns, firebreaks, Cal Fire capacity, water storage, Sites Reservoir, and agricultural water rights protections.

theme_id: wildfire-water

theme_label: Wildfire Water


event_title: Bianco energy priority page

text: Bianco's campaign says it would modernize the electric grid to prevent blackouts and rely on market-driven energy solutions.


text: Bianco's campaign says it would keep Diablo Canyon operating and support nuclear power as a clean, reliable energy source.


text: Lower energy costs by holding regulators accountable, lifting drilling restrictions, modernizing the grid, and supporting nuclear power.

theme_id: gas-prices-energy

theme_label: Gas Prices Energy


event_title: Bianco homelessness priority page

text: Clear unsafe encampments, fast-track emergency shelters, expand treatment and mental-health response, audit homelessness spending, and fund programs with proven results.


text: Bianco's campaign says it would clear unsafe homeless encampments and fast-track emergency shelters and supportive housing.

theme_id: homelessness

theme_label: Homelessness


text: Bianco's campaign says it would expand treatment and mental health responses, including mandatory care when needed.

theme_id: health-care

theme_label: Health Care


event_title: Bianco housing priority page

text: Bianco's campaign proposes eliminating CEQA and related litigation, arguing that these costs get passed on to homebuyers.

theme_id: housing

theme_label: Housing


text: Bianco's campaign says it would expedite approvals for housing projects to streamline permitting.


text: Lower housing costs by expediting approvals, eliminating CEQA litigation barriers, cutting overregulation, and protecting Proposition 13.


event_title: Bianco immigration priority page

text: End sanctuary-state limits for serious criminal cases, let local law enforcement cooperate with federal partners, and support lawful worker pathways.

theme_id: immigration

theme_label: Immigration


event_title: Bianco insurance priority page

text: Stabilize insurance by keeping insurers in California, incentivizing home hardening, strengthening the FAIR Plan, fighting fraud, and simplifying claims.

theme_id: insurance-wildfire

theme_label: Insurance Wildfire


event_title: Bianco transportation and infrastructure priority page

text: Suspend the gas tax and prevent toll increases while redirecting infrastructure investment toward freeway and road capacity Californians use.

theme_id: gas-prices-transportation

theme_label: Gas Prices Transportation


event_title: KQED California Gubernatorial Election Town Hall: Chad Bianco

text: Bianco describes his governing approach as anti-tax and anti-regulation with a focus on smaller government.


text: Bianco says public safety is the government's top responsibility.


event_title: CBS News California / San Francisco Examiner gubernatorial debate

text: Bianco argues that reducing regulation and what he calls excessive business taxes would help stop people from being forced out of California.


text: Bianco contends that voters should reject promises of more taxes, regulations, and free benefits because he says those policies raise costs rather than lowering them.

theme_id: governance

theme_label: Governance


claim_type: prediction

event_title: NBC4 / Telemundo 52 statewide California gubernatorial debate

text: Bianco predicts that insurers will not return to California if another Democrat is elected, which he attributes to policies he says caused insurers to leave.

theme_id: insurance

theme_label: Insurance


text: Bianco argues that housing is unaffordable because excessive regulations make it too costly for builders to construct homes, and he says he would remove those regulations to increase homebuilding.


event_title: CNN California governor primary debate

text: Bianco predicts that a proposed tax bill he criticizes would drive high earners out of California and shift more of the tax burden onto the middle class and lower middle class.

theme_id: taxes

theme_label: Taxes


text: Bianco argues that decades of Democratic policies and regulations have damaged California and that Democrats in office should not be given another chance.


event_title: CBS California / Pomona College Governor's Debate

text: Bianco says California is broken because he believes a progressive Democratic agenda in Sacramento has failed, and he argues that regulations and taxes should be reduced.


claim_type: pushback

text: Bianco rejects single-payer health care in California and frames it as socialism.


event_title: KQED Political Breakdown: Chad Bianco on Running for Governor

text: Bianco contends that California is deteriorating and is becoming like a third world country.


text: Bianco argues that California politics have become increasingly divisive and are harming the state and the country.


event_title: CBS News California Governor's Race Candidate Guide

text: Bianco claims California's high gasoline prices are the result of state policy choices and says the government could lower prices if it chose to.


text: Bianco argues that gasoline costs are the main driver of California's high cost of living because transportation costs affect the price of most goods.

theme_id: cost-of-living

theme_label: Cost of Living


event_title: Nexstar / NewsNation / The Hill California gubernatorial primary debate

text: Bianco argues that California's high gas prices and cost of living are driven by long-running Democratic policies that he says are harming the state's oil and refinery capacity.

theme_id: energy

theme_label: Energy


text: Bianco says he would oppose both a mileage tax and any additional gas tax.


claim_type: observation

text: California DOJ opened civil-rights investigation into the Sheriff's Office: The investigation is evidence of a serious accountability question around the office, not by itself a finding that Bianco personally violated law.

theme_id: civil-rights-jail-conditions

theme_label: Civil Rights Jail Conditions


text: Runs Riverside County Sheriff's Office and county jail system: The sheriff role gives Bianco direct executive responsibility over department policy, staffing priorities, and jail operations within county/legal constraints.

theme_id: public-safety-jails

theme_label: Public Safety Jails