# Chad Bianco

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: [Chad Bianco](https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=profile&candidate=chad-bianco)
- App claim network: [Chad Bianco claim network](https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=network&candidate=chad-bianco)
- Machine-readable packet: [chad-bianco.json](https://polit.pages.dev/llm/candidates/chad-bianco.json)
- Candidate claim evidence JSONL: [chad-bianco-claims.jsonl](https://polit.pages.dev/llm/evidence/candidates/chad-bianco-claims.jsonl)
- Candidate index: [all candidates](/llm/candidates/index.md)
- Curated issue index: [issues](/llm/issues/index.md)

## Snapshot

- Candidate ID: `chad-bianco`
- Party: Republican
- Ballot designation: Riverside County Sheriff
- 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

Republican Riverside County Sheriff running from a law-enforcement and public-safety background.

## Current Program

Republican law-enforcement campaign: public safety, Sacramento accountability, homelessness-spending scrutiny, lower costs, education choice/accountability, and conservative anti-one-party-rule framing.

### Program Sources

- [Bianco campaign site](https://biancoforgovernor.com/)
- [Bianco education page](https://biancoforgovernor.com/education/)
- [Riverside Sheriff official Bianco biography](https://www.riversidesheriff.org/689/Sheriff-Chad-Bianco)
- [Bianco campaign priorities](https://biancoforgovernor.com/priorities/)
- [Bianco affordability and taxes priority page](https://biancoforgovernor.com/affordability-and-taxes/)
- [Bianco homelessness priority page](https://biancoforgovernor.com/homelessness/)
- ... 9 more source links in the JSON packet.

### Normalized Promises

- **public safety**: Restore law-and-order policy, strengthen accountability for crime, and support law enforcement.
  - Authority path: executive enforcement posture, appointments, budget, legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use appointments, budget priorities, and executive enforcement posture to support law enforcement.
    - Push legislation that increases accountability for crime.
    - Make public safety a central agency and budget priority.
- **homelessness / spending**: Demand accountability for homelessness spending and challenge current Sacramento approaches.
  - Authority path: budget proposal, audits, agency direction, legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `2`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Audit homelessness spending and program results.
    - Shift funds toward programs that can demonstrate outcomes.
- **education**: Push an education approach centered on school accountability and parental/family priorities.
  - Authority path: State Board appointments, budget, legislation, local school constraints
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `2`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use State Board appointments and education policy to emphasize school accountability.
    - Push legislation and guidance that expand parental involvement.
- **taxes / affordability**: Cut taxes on working families and businesses, stop overregulation, and unleash California energy resources to lower gas and utility costs.
  - Authority path: tax legislation, regulatory appointments, energy permitting, executive direction, and budget
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use tax legislation to cut taxes on working families and businesses.
    - Review and reduce regulations he describes as overregulation.
    - Expand California energy production and permitting to lower fuel and utility costs.
- **gas prices / energy**: Lower energy costs by holding regulators accountable, lifting drilling restrictions, modernizing the grid, and supporting nuclear power.
  - Authority path: CPUC/CEC appointments, permitting policy, executive direction, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use CPUC and CEC appointments to hold regulators accountable for costs.
    - Lift drilling restrictions and modernize the grid.
    - Support nuclear power as part of the energy mix.
- **gas prices / transportation**: Suspend the gas tax and prevent toll increases while redirecting infrastructure investment toward freeway and road capacity Californians use.
  - Authority path: tax legislation, transportation budget, Caltrans direction, and veto power
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Suspend the gas tax through tax legislation and budget action.
    - Prevent toll increases where state authority allows.
    - Redirect transportation investment toward freeway and road capacity.
- **housing**: Lower housing costs by expediting approvals, eliminating CEQA litigation barriers, cutting overregulation, and protecting Proposition 13.
  - Authority path: housing legislation, CEQA reform, state housing agency direction, and local permitting policy
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Expedite housing approvals and permitting.
    - Eliminate CEQA litigation barriers he says block housing.
    - Protect Proposition 13 while reducing housing regulations.
- **homelessness / spending**: Clear unsafe encampments, fast-track emergency shelters, expand treatment and mental-health response, audit homelessness spending, and fund programs with proven results.
  - Authority path: budget, audits, Grants Pass enforcement posture, health agency coordination, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `5`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Clear unsafe encampments under the post-Grants Pass enforcement posture.
    - Fast-track emergency shelters and treatment capacity.
    - Audit homelessness spending and fund programs with proven results.
    - Expand mental-health response tied to homelessness enforcement.
- **immigration**: End sanctuary-state limits for serious criminal cases, let local law enforcement cooperate with federal partners, and support lawful worker pathways.
  - Authority path: law-enforcement policy, state-federal coordination, executive guidance, litigation, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Revise sanctuary-state limits in serious criminal cases.
    - Let local law enforcement cooperate with federal partners.
    - Support lawful worker pathways while changing enforcement rules.
- **insurance / wildfire**: Stabilize insurance by keeping insurers in California, incentivizing home hardening, strengthening the FAIR Plan, fighting fraud, and simplifying claims.
  - Authority path: insurance department appointments, wildfire mitigation funds, FAIR Plan oversight, fraud enforcement, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use Insurance Department appointments and rulemaking to keep insurers in California.
    - Incentivize home hardening and wildfire mitigation.
    - Strengthen FAIR Plan oversight, fight fraud, and simplify claims.
- **wildfire / water**: Expand forest management, controlled burns, firebreaks, Cal Fire capacity, water storage, Sites Reservoir, and agricultural water rights protections.
  - Authority path: Cal Fire direction, natural-resources agencies, water-project permitting, budget, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Expand forest management, controlled burns, firebreaks, and Cal Fire capacity.
    - Build water storage, including Sites Reservoir.
    - Protect agricultural water rights through water-agency policy and legislation.

## Record And Action Samples

- **Runs Riverside County Sheriff's Office and county jail system**
  - Date: `2019-`; issue: public safety / jails
  - The sheriff role gives Bianco direct executive responsibility over department policy, staffing priorities, and jail operations within county/legal constraints.
- **California DOJ opened civil-rights investigation into the Sheriff's Office**
  - Date: `2023-02-23`; issue: civil rights / jail conditions
  - The investigation is evidence of a serious accountability question around the office, not by itself a finding that Bianco personally violated law.
- **Run on law-and-order public safety and personal sheriff record.**
  - Date: `Governor campaign launch and sheriff tenure`; issue: promise outcome
  - Bianco has direct sheriff authority, but a DOJ civil-rights investigation creates an unresolved accountability record that should be displayed separately from campaign claims.

## Claim-Network Evidence Samples

- `cl-app-event-2026-05-29-calmatters-governor-q-and-a-transcripts-chad-bianco-695fb138` 2026-05-29: Bianco says California's tax structure is unfair because he believes higher earners are punished with higher taxes. ([source](https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/governor/videos/transcripts/))
- `cl-app-event-2026-05-29-calmatters-governor-q-and-a-transcripts-chad-bianco-e08b30ae` 2026-05-29: Bianco says he would make California more affordable by removing what he characterizes as excessive regulations across industries. ([source](https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/governor/videos/transcripts/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-affordability-and-taxes-priority-page-ed65e1352a2cc285-11200168` 2026-05-26: Bianco's campaign says it would stop over-regulation and unleash California's energy resources to lower gas and utility prices. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/affordability-and-taxes/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-affordability-and-taxes-priority-page-ed65e1352a2cc285-a09e490c` 2026-05-26: Bianco's campaign says it would cut taxes on working families and businesses as part of an agenda to make California more affordable. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/affordability-and-taxes/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-affordability-and-taxes-priority-page-ed65e1352a2cc285-ddecb9ff` 2026-05-26: Cut taxes on working families and businesses, stop overregulation, and unleash California energy resources to lower gas and utility costs. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/affordability-and-taxes/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-campaign-site-91437c35692c0fb9-592b4ac9-chad-bianco-ho-3fcc4795` 2026-05-26: Demand accountability for homelessness spending and challenge current Sacramento approaches. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-campaign-site-91437c35692c0fb9-592b4ac9-chad-bianco-pu-49545c11` 2026-05-26: Restore law-and-order policy, strengthen accountability for crime, and support law enforcement. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-education-page-037002766a28e81c-0d0aacc4-chad-bianco-e-7d3e720e` 2026-05-26: Push an education approach centered on school accountability and parental/family priorities. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/education/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-emergency-response-priority-page-9400d7a6f89d362d-81a4-8809b49e` 2026-05-26: Expand forest management, controlled burns, firebreaks, Cal Fire capacity, water storage, Sites Reservoir, and agricultural water rights protections. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/emergency-response/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-energy-priority-page-6dfe99853983924b-b1538eb9-chad-bi-2d46a089` 2026-05-26: Bianco's campaign says it would modernize the electric grid to prevent blackouts and rely on market-driven energy solutions. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/energy/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-energy-priority-page-6dfe99853983924b-b1538eb9-chad-bi-3f6082cd` 2026-05-26: Bianco's campaign says it would keep Diablo Canyon operating and support nuclear power as a clean, reliable energy source. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/energy/))
- `cl-app-source-bianco-energy-priority-page-6dfe99853983924b-b1538eb9-chad-bi-7d142f77` 2026-05-26: Lower energy costs by holding regulators accountable, lifting drilling restrictions, modernizing the grid, and supporting nuclear power. ([source](https://biancoforgovernor.com/energy/))
- ... 27 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.
