{"id":294795,"date":"2026-05-01T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294795\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:10:09","slug":"california-lieutenant-governor-election-voter-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294795\/","title":{"rendered":"California lieutenant governor election voter guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> \"Josh <\/p>\n

Josh Fryday, Chief Service Officer of California in the California Governor\u2019s Cabinet, talks to a campaign supporter during the California Democratic Convention in San Francisco. <\/p>\n

(Christina House \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Fryday is the former mayor of the Northern California city of Novato and serves as the state\u2019s chief service officer, leading the newly created Governor\u2019s Office of Service and Community Engagement. He is also a veteran who served in the Navy as a judge advocate general.<\/p>\n

While stationed in Japan, Fryday helped coordinate disaster relief efforts after the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster. He represented detainees while serving at Guantanamo Bay and later urged legislators to close the detention facility during his testimony before a U.S. Senate committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the experience of delivering for people and the demonstrated courage of standing up for our values and speaking out when it matters most,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A self-described environmental champion, Fryday supports the state\u2019s plan<\/a> to phase out new gas-powered cars by 2035. \u201cWe need to be very aggressive in pursuing the transition to a clean economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fryday has concerns about the Billionaire Tax Act and thinks the state should explore other ways of raising revenue.<\/p>\n

He does not support the death penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic safety should be a huge concern of government,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s part of why I volunteered to serve in the military, to keep our country safe, but I think the death penalty has proven that it doesn\u2019t deter crime and its been applied unfairly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fryday would fight back against the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on universities, communities and the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need courage to stand up to the Trump administration to be able to protect our state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Other certified candidates<\/a> appearing on the ballot for lieutenant governor include Democrats Janelle Kellman, Jeyson Lopez, Oliver Ma, Tim Myers and Abdur Rahman Sikder and Republicans Ebie Lynch, David Collenberg, David Fennell and Skip Shelton. Third party candidates include Alice Stek with the Peace and Freedom Party and Rakesh Christian and Sean Collinson, who both have no party listed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Josh Fryday, Chief Service Officer of California in the California Governor\u2019s Cabinet, talks to a campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71200,7,9,67246,8,47515,1751,15584,26366,4415,125306,125307,67245,10020,15052,125305,1816],"class_list":["post-294795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-billionaire-tax-act","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-lieutenant-governor","tag-california-news","tag-death-penalty","tag-democrats","tag-josh-fryday","tag-ma","tag-mayor","tag-new-gas-powered-car","tag-revenue-problem","tag-romero","tag-state-government","tag-state-senate","tag-tubbs","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}