# Tony K. Thurmond

Static LLM evidence packet for the Said vs. Did California Governor 2026 research prototype.

## Use Rules

- This is a research prototype, not a voter guide, endorsement, or final assessment.
- Many rows are model-generated or unreviewed and should be treated as evidence-navigation aids.
- Missing or limited coverage means the dataset has not ingested, normalized, or balanced that surface yet; it is not evidence that a candidate lacks activity there.
- Use source URLs and record IDs when citing claims. Prefer the linked JSON/JSONL companion files for retrieval.

## Links

- App profile: [Tony K. Thurmond](https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=profile&candidate=tony-k-thurmond)
- App claim network: [Tony K. Thurmond claim network](https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=network&candidate=tony-k-thurmond)
- Machine-readable packet: [tony-k-thurmond.json](https://polit.pages.dev/llm/candidates/tony-k-thurmond.json)
- Candidate claim evidence JSONL: [tony-k-thurmond-claims.jsonl](https://polit.pages.dev/llm/evidence/candidates/tony-k-thurmond-claims.jsonl)
- Candidate index: [all candidates](/llm/candidates/index.md)
- Curated issue index: [issues](/llm/issues/index.md)

## Snapshot

- Candidate ID: `tony-k-thurmond`
- Party: Democratic
- Ballot designation: California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Campaign status: Active or not separately flagged
- Ballot status: unknown
- Priority candidate: True
- Generated from site artifact: `2026-06-02T08:01:06.314093+00:00`

## Summary

California State Superintendent of Public Instruction; profile needs education-record ingestion.

## Current Program

Education-and-working-family Democrat: affordability, tax credits, education investment, housing on public/school land, and standing up to billionaires/federal pressure.

### Program Sources

- [Thurmond campaign home page](https://www.tonythurmond.com/)
- [Thurmond campaign priorities](https://www.tonythurmond.com/priorities)
- [Thurmond campaign biography](https://www.tonythurmond.com/meet-tony)
- [Thurmond school-services accomplishments page](https://www.tonythurmond.com/school-services)
- [Thurmond campaign accomplishments page](https://www.tonythurmond.com/accomplishments)
- [California official voter guide candidate statements](https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/candidates/governor-candidate-statements.htm)
- ... 1 more source links in the JSON packet.

### Normalized Promises

- **affordability**: Provide tax credits or direct relief to help Californians with gas, groceries, and housing costs.
  - Authority path: tax legislation and budget
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use tax credits or direct payments for gas, groceries, and housing relief.
    - Fund relief through the budget and tax legislation.
- **housing**: Build 2 million affordable housing units using surplus school-district land, redevelopment funding, down-payment grants, a housing bond, and fees on large speculators.
  - Authority path: state budget, school district/local cooperation, redevelopment legislation, housing bond, tax/fee legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `5`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use surplus school-district land for housing.
    - Restore redevelopment-style funding and pursue a housing bond.
    - Offer down-payment grants and charge fees on large speculators.
- **education**: Lead a five-year plan for every California student to read by third grade while expanding preschool, school meals, counselors, and youth support.
  - Authority path: budget, executive appointments, Department of Education coordination, legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Set a five-year statewide third-grade reading plan.
    - Expand preschool and universal school meals.
    - Fund counselors and youth-support services through schools.
- **education / affordability**: Create universal child care, pilot free four-year UC or CSU degrees, and use low-cost loans and job programs to help small businesses and workers.
  - Authority path: budget, UC/CSU coordination, workforce programs, small-business finance, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Create universal child care through budget and provider-capacity investments.
    - Pilot free four-year UC or CSU degrees.
    - Use low-cost loans and job programs for small businesses and workers.
- **immigration / civil rights**: Tax companies that operate ICE detention centers, protect sanctuary-state laws, fight to abolish ICE, and support a pathway to citizenship.
  - Authority path: tax legislation, state-federal litigation, law-enforcement guidance, congressional advocacy, and budget
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Tax companies that operate ICE detention centers.
    - Protect sanctuary-state laws through state guidance and litigation.
    - Advocate to abolish ICE and support a pathway to citizenship.
- **AI / corporate accountability**: Tax billionaires and centimillionaires while regulating AI companies and data-center development to protect workers, consumers, the environment, and workplace safety.
  - Authority path: tax legislation, privacy and labor regulation, environmental review, energy permitting, and agency enforcement
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Tax billionaires and centimillionaires.
    - Regulate AI companies for worker, consumer, privacy, and safety effects.
    - Review data-center development for environmental, energy, and workplace impacts.
- **taxes / affordability**: Tax billionaires and use state policy to provide tax credits or relief for gas, groceries, housing, health care, schools, and working-class costs.
  - Authority path: tax legislation, budget, ballot-measure path, and state benefit administration
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use billionaire taxation as the revenue source for working-class relief.
    - Target credits or relief toward gas, groceries, housing, health care, and schools.
- **health care**: Advance health care for all while keeping hospitals and public health services funded.
  - Authority path: budget, health agency direction, federal waivers, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Pursue universal-health-care financing through budget and legislation.
    - Protect hospital and public-health-service funding during coverage expansion.
- **immigration / education**: Abolish ICE and keep immigration enforcement out of California schools.
  - Authority path: state legislation, school guidance, attorney-general coordination, and state-federal litigation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use school guidance and state law to keep immigration enforcement out of schools.
    - Coordinate with the Attorney General and federal partners on ICE abolition advocacy.
- **public safety / gun policy**: Get weapons of war off California streets while protecting abortion care and democracy.
  - Authority path: gun legislation, attorney-general coordination, executive advocacy, and budget
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `2`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use gun legislation and Attorney General coordination against assault-style weapons.
    - Pair public-safety advocacy with abortion-care and democracy protections.

## Record And Action Samples

- **Launched or promoted statewide education initiatives through CDE**
  - Date: `2019-`; issue: education
  - CDE lists Superintendent initiatives including literacy, housing, and other K-12 policy priorities.
- **Announced TK-12 education healthcare cost workgroup**
  - Date: `2026-04-21`; issue: education workforce costs
  - CDE announced a workgroup to develop policy solutions around rising healthcare costs for California school districts.
- **Announced a five-year Literacy Moonshot plan**
  - Date: `2026-01-08`; issue: literacy
  - CDE announced Thurmond's five-year plan to close the third-grade literacy gap, including dyslexia screening, tutoring, family engagement, and teacher training.
- **Issued statement tying proposed budget investments to education priorities**
  - Date: `2026-01-09`; issue: education budget
  - CDE published Thurmond's statement supporting proposed investments in community schools, expanded learning, transitional kindergarten, literacy coaches, and reading-difficulty screening.
- **Highlighted personal finance education rollout ahead of schedule**
  - Date: `2026-05-08`; issue: financial education
  - CDE said implementation of AB 2927, supported by Thurmond, was ahead of schedule after State Board adoption of the curriculum guide.
- **Announced high school redesign work aligned with XQ Institute report**
  - Date: `2026-03-02`; issue: high school redesign
  - CDE announced engagement with state and education partners to redesign high school around personalized supports, deeper learning, and experiential opportunities.
- **Improve literacy and student outcomes through statewide education initiatives.**
  - Date: `Superintendent policy agenda`; issue: promise outcome
  - CDE lists Superintendent initiatives including literacy; outcome comparison still needs statewide assessment and district implementation data.

## Claim-Network Evidence Samples

- `cl-app-event-2026-05-29-calmatters-governor-q-and-a-transcripts-tony-k-thur-5b7826ac` 2026-05-29: Thurmond argues California’s tax structure is unbalanced because it relies heavily on income and sales taxes and says closing Proposition 13 loopholes could help create a more stable revenue system. ([source](https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/governor/videos/transcripts/))
- `cl-app-event-2026-05-29-calmatters-governor-q-and-a-transcripts-tony-k-thur-6f5ca22f` 2026-05-29: Thurmond says California should build about 2 million housing units using surplus school district property and argues that working and middle-class Californians should receive a tax credit funded by taxing billionaires to help cover rising costs. ([source](https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/governor/videos/transcripts/))
- `cl-app-source-california-official-voter-guide-candidate-statements-0adc75f3-5628776e` 2026-05-26: Tax billionaires and use state policy to provide tax credits or relief for gas, groceries, housing, health care, schools, and working-class costs. ([source](https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/candidates/governor-candidate-statements.htm))
- `cl-app-source-california-official-voter-guide-candidate-statements-0adc75f3-74619932` 2026-05-26: Get weapons of war off California streets while protecting abortion care and democracy. ([source](https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/candidates/governor-candidate-statements.htm))
- `cl-app-source-california-official-voter-guide-candidate-statements-0adc75f3-b5135d30` 2026-05-26: Advance health care for all while keeping hospitals and public health services funded. ([source](https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/candidates/governor-candidate-statements.htm))
- `cl-app-source-california-official-voter-guide-candidate-statements-0adc75f3-fa798700` 2026-05-26: Abolish ICE and keep immigration enforcement out of California schools. ([source](https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/candidates/governor-candidate-statements.htm))
- `cl-app-source-thurmond-campaign-in-the-news-policy-archive-3fda782c95f22c21-f1402cb2` 2026-05-26: Thurmond says that as governor he would provide Californians a tax credit to help cover costs like gas, housing, and groceries while broader cost-reduction measures are developed. ([source](https://www.tonythurmond.com/in-the-news))
- `cl-app-source-thurmond-campaign-priorities-de98e1de1a07cdf4-0b67999f-tony-k-228e994f` 2026-05-26: Thurmond’s campaign priorities include establishing comprehensive regulations for data center development focused on environmental and occupational safety. ([source](https://www.tonythurmond.com/priorities))
- `cl-app-source-thurmond-campaign-priorities-de98e1de1a07cdf4-0b67999f-tony-k-22b08237` 2026-05-26: Provide tax credits or direct relief to help Californians with gas, groceries, and housing costs. ([source](https://www.tonythurmond.com/priorities))
- `cl-app-source-thurmond-campaign-priorities-de98e1de1a07cdf4-0b67999f-tony-k-232da023` 2026-05-26: Tax billionaires and centimillionaires while regulating AI companies and data-center development to protect workers, consumers, the environment, and workplace safety. ([source](https://www.tonythurmond.com/priorities))
- `cl-app-source-thurmond-campaign-priorities-de98e1de1a07cdf4-0b67999f-tony-k-915e0c4f` 2026-05-26: Build 2 million affordable housing units using surplus school-district land, redevelopment funding, down-payment grants, a housing bond, and fees on large speculators. ([source](https://www.tonythurmond.com/priorities))
- `cl-app-source-thurmond-campaign-priorities-de98e1de1a07cdf4-0b67999f-tony-k-972b79f1` 2026-05-26: Tax companies that operate ICE detention centers, protect sanctuary-state laws, fight to abolish ICE, and support a pathway to citizenship. ([source](https://www.tonythurmond.com/priorities))
- ... 16 more claim rows in the candidate JSONL file.

## Coverage Notes

- No limited or missing coverage notes were present in the coverage matrix.

## Assistant Guidance

- To compare two candidates, read both candidate packets and then inspect shared curated issue packets from `/llm/issues/index.md`.
- For ad hoc questions not represented by a curated issue page, search the candidate JSON, per-candidate JSONL, and all-claim JSONL records.
- Do not infer a candidate position from missing rows.
