Blog: California candidates and elected officials could use campaign funds to pay for child care under new bill

“I know it’s a privilege to run, but it shouldn’t be for the privileged,” Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) said. “We need to make sure we remove these barriers so that women can run, so that low-income women can run, so that parents of young kids have the ability to run, because we need their voices at the table. We need their voices here in Sacramento as we create public policy that impacts children.”