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Dave Min: “I am currently the California state senator for this area.”

Featuring: Dave Min, Democratic | U.S. House, California, District 47

OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min

Published July 26, 2023 | Video Starts at 01:01

Just tell us a little about yourself personally, your family, where you grew up, that kind of thing. Sure. Thanks. So I'm I am currently the California state senator for this area. That's my home city of Irvine, as well as surrounding cities like Costa Mesa, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Lake Forest, Laguna Woods, Tustin, Villa Park, Anaheim Hills, and some others. (01:01–01:05)

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“I've been serving since 2020.”
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“I was a UC Irvine law professor before coming here.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 01:32-01:36
“I've spent my life since then working as a professor at UCI.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 01:32-01:36
“My parents grew up during the Korean War.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 03:54-03:57
“10% of South Korea's civilian population died in that conflict.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 04:00-04:05
“My parents came over to America in 1971 on a scholarship for their graduate studies.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 04:49-04:55
“My very first job at a law school was at the federal US Securities and Exchange Commission.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 05:34-05:40
“I turned down Goldman Sachs.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 05:40-05:42
“I turned down a bunch of corporate firms because I wanted to go serve my country.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 05:41-05:46
“I've spent my life since then working as an economic policy advisor for US Senator Schumer.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 06:04-06:10
“I've spent my life since then working for the Center for American Progress.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 06:04-06:18
“Orange county has continued to just chug ahead.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 08:18-08:22
“The number one reason that people are leaving Orange county and frankly, leaving the state is because of the high cost of housing.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 08:43-08:50
“We continue to layer on more compliance and regulatory requirements for our small businesses.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 09:14-09:19
“We just experienced the four hottest days on record right now in human history this past month.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 10:57-11:04
“The wildfire risk continues to rise as our flora gets drier and drier.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 11:06-11:13
“Rising sea levels, of course, will impact a lot of our communities, including places like Huntington and Newport.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 11:12-11:18
“Earlier this year, we passed, and last year and the year before, we passed some limited ceqa exemptions for certain types of housing.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 13:48-13:57
“Lot splitting and ADUs may create something like 50,000 units around the state.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 14:18-14:26
“I was privileged to be on the task force that was responsible for the Senate's portion of negotiating this climate infrastructure trailer…”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 14:42-14:53
“We were meaningfully fast-tracking these types of projects in ways that would help assure developers, hey, you can do business in…”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 14:58-15:19
“Low and very low-income housing typically requires some kind of state subsidy.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 16:22-16:30
“Workforce housing is a little bit different because you can create units that are a little bit smaller.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 16:33-16:38
“We need to encourage our localities, our municipalities to demand more workforce housing because developers don't want to do it.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 16:49-16:57
“Typically when you're building either units that are designed to be rental or owned, whether it's single-family or multifamily, for someone…”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 16:58-17:14
“I support the care court's idea.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 17:57-18:00
“Most people in America, unfortunately, are one major accident away from being precariously close to homelessness.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 19:03-19:11
“If someone is struggling to pay their rent, they don't have a place to stay, we give them some temporary shelter, are able to help them get…”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 20:06-20:18
“We have some leading models, some leading shelters.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 21:17-21:21
“Orange county is doing really well [in dealing with homelessness].”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 21:22-21:24
“We're starting to see more and more insurers pull out of the state because of climate related issues.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 22:26-22:32
“We're seeing hundreds of billions, maybe trillions of dollars in private capital come into green innovation into infrastructure here in this…”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 23:04-23:12
“We see the wildfires right now that we know are part of what California is going to have to deal with on a regular basis.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 23:50-23:57
“We have to manage biodiversity.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 24:08-24:11
“We live in a beautiful place. We have so many beautiful open preserves.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 24:44-24:49
“In my first year, I was able to pass a bill called SB 87, which provided $2.1 billion in funding for small businesses that had suffered from…”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 27:43-27:56
“I believe we had something like $150 million come to businesses in this district.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 27:56-28:01
“I was able to get a bill most of the way through. I think it'll get signed into law later this year, SB 666.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 28:18-28:24
“It is targeting the devil of small business junk fees.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 28:26-28:31
“There are a lot of predatory lenders out there right now targeting small businesses with products that are unfair.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 28:33-28:40
“We're proposing a series of different solutions to different types of predatory lending products targeted at small businesses.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 28:43-28:49
“That bill, I think will get signed, I suspect it'll get signed later this year by the governor.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 28:54-28:59
“It has one more stop in the assembly before it goes to the governor's desk.”
OUR COMMUNITY_ State Senator Dave Min | Uploaded July 26, 2023 | 28:58-29:03
“I've tried repeatedly to pass small business regulatory relief.”
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“We have done something like 50 webinars and roundtables related to small business.”
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