ROLE OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

California Lieutenant Governor is often referred to as the most important office in Sacramento that most voters  never heard of.

That is primarily because recent Lieutenant Governors have simply not performed the duties given to them under the California Constitution, and State statutes and have decided to simply delegate or not perform their duties while taking a large salary at tax payers' expense.

That will all change when you elect David Fennell to be your Lieutenant Governor.

Under California’s Constitution, the Lieutenant Governor serves as Acting Governor whenever the Governor is absent from the state, and automatically becomes Governor if a vacancy occurs in the Office of Governor.

The Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State Senate overseeing its 40 members with each Senator representing 931,349 Californians; more than the 704,566 represented by U.S. Congressional members. In 2022, the State Senate has gone through dramatic change due to redistricting shaking up California politics with the redrawing of the map of California districts. Some of these districts make up the tiny geographic regions of Los Angeles County; whereas, others stretch from the San Francisco Bay to the Oregon border with several containing areas larger geographically than some U.S. States.

Unfortunately, recent Lieutenant Governors have not shown up to work and have instead delegated the responsibilities to the Senate Pro Term.  David Fennell will change that. He will show up to work.

The Lieutenant Governor serves as a voting member of the Board of Regents of the University of California, the Board of Trustees of the California State University system and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges system. Thus placing the Lt. Governor in one of the most powerful positions to influence one of the world’s largest and most prestigious public education systems, and which has also had some recently had its share of problems with issues such as out control student debt and a hidden $175 million slush fund.

The Lieutenant Governor also serves on, and rotates with, the State Controller, as chair of the three-member State Lands Commission, which oversees the control and leasing of millions of acres of state-owned land, including offshore oil resources, as well as use and permitting for all navigable waterways in California. The Commission also manages state land-use planning and revenues, and related interstate issues.

He also serves as a member of the California Ocean Protection Council and member of the California Coastal Commission, as well as the California Emergency Council and other key agencies. Few people are aware of these commissions but they directly impact Californians’ daily lives from addressing water storage for farmers to managing our forests to preventing forest fires.

Perhaps most importantly during this time of raising prices and jobs leaving the state, under state statutes, the Lieutenant Governor chairs the California Commission for Economic Development, which provides support and guidance to the Governor, Legislature and private sector regarding the development of California’s economy.

In this role the Lieutenant Governor writes the Economic Plan for the state of California and is in charge of working with all 58 counties and 482 municipalities which are suffering with jobs leaving the state.  The current Lieutenant Governor has not even held a meeting of the California Commission for Economic Development much less written an economic plan during her four years in office.

Finally, as the chief economic ambassador of California, the fifth largest economy in the world, the Lieutenant Governor is responsible for promoting the trade and investment for the State.

David Fennell earned his Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and Master in Asian Studies from the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco where he focused on transitioning economies.  His first job out of college was selling NeXT Computer for Steve Jobs and later working in the California Aerospace Manufacturing  sector and furthered his career by being invited to present on transitional economies in locations as diverse as Kuala Lumpur, Geneva, Seoul and even at the Mongolian National University in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Having made 5 trips to all of California’s 58 counties he has the experience and training to guide California out of its economic downturn, keep jobs in the state, and manage the education and natural resources of our great state.

Our currently Lieutenant Governor rarely shows up to work in Sacramento and only got the position because her Dad is a wealthy political donor. Her only job is working for her wealthy father.

California needs new leadership in the Lieutenant Governor position that only David Fennell can provide.