Steve Hilton in Fresno as Republican running for California governor

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Conservative commentator and entrepreneur Steve Hilton officially launched his run for California politician this week with a halt successful Fresno, pledging to combat for the Central Valley’s agriculture manufacture and easiness the economical burdens connected moving families.

Hilton, who antecedently hosted The Next Revolution connected Fox News, said helium chose Fresno arsenic 1 of his archetypal run stops due to the fact that of his beardown enactment for the vale and its farmers.

“This is the astir unthinkable place, and it is being attacked - by the radical successful charge, who look to person nary transportation to oregon knowing of this valley,” Hilton told the crowd. “We are going to alteration each that.”

Hilton criticized California’s existent leadership, calling retired what helium described arsenic "insane regulations" from authorities agencies similar the Air Resources Board and Water Resources Control Board. He argued that these bureaucracies are making it harder for farmers to win and driving generational cultivation families retired of business.

As portion of his run platform, Hilton vowed to chopped taxes for moving Californians, destruct authorities income taxation for individuals earning nether $100,000 a year.

“Fifteen months from now, we are going to extremity 15 years of Democrat one-party rule,” Hilton said. “We volition person a politician who is each astir positive, practical, common-sense policies.”

Hilton besides outlined plans to betterment California’s acquisition strategy by emphasizing world accomplishment implicit what helium called “indoctrination.” He pledged to instrumentality grading systems for schools and teachers to summation accountability and absorption connected pupil outcomes.

Hilton framed his run arsenic a grassroots movement, announcing a program to sound connected 1 cardinal doors crossed the authorities earlier the election. He called connected supporters crossed enactment lines to articulation the effort.

“We privation to reconstruct California to its rightful place, not astatine the bottommost of the list, but arsenic the champion of America,” Hilton said.

The Fresno halt was portion of what Hilton is calling his “Golden Age Tour,” wherever helium plans to sojourn each region successful the authorities and perceive to voters’ concerns directly.