Suisun’s Mike Hudson Starts Run for New State Assembly Seat
SUISUN CITY — Cutting state regulations that discourage commerce, assisting small businesses and promoting job growth are some of the main goals for Suisun City Councilman Mike Hudson if he gets elected in 2012 in a new state Assembly district.
“California has lost its way. Our area and the (Sacramento River) delta has been particularly hard hit. We need to get California back on track,” Hudson said.
“We have 12 percent or worse official unemployment. We need to promote job growth and not just government jobs.”
He said he decided to run in late August and is gathering support and putting together his campaign.
Hudson has targeted the recently created 11th Assembly District that covers Solano County from Cordelia to the east side of Vacaville, and southeast to Rio Vista. It also covers much of the delta, from Walnut Grove south to Discovery Bay and west to Antioch.
The state primary is slated for June 5, 2012, and the general election will take place Nov. 6, 2012. Candidates have until March 9, 2012, to file.
The district has no incumbent and only one other declared candidate. Oakley Mayor Jim Frazier, a Democrat and general contractor, was the first to publicly announce earlier this month that he is seeking the seat.
Vacaville Vice Mayor Ron Rowlett’s name was floated as a possible candidate, but he quashed those rumors Wednesday. Rowlett said he plans to stick with his duties guiding Vacaville through its tough times.
On his campaign website, Hudson promotes his 11 years in the Navy’s submarine service and then subsequent work as a computer consultant that eventually landed him in Suisun City nearly 17 years ago. That’s where he started the IT services company Hudson Business Networks in 2001.
He successfully ran for the City Council in 2006 and was re-elected in 2010, surviving a controversy over the move he initiated to nearly double the salary of Suisun City Council members. He also survived a recall attempt that never made it to the ballot box, which was driven by opponents to the proposed Walmart supercenter in eastern Suisun City.
Hudson said he continues to be involved with Suisun City’s diverse community groups and has expanded his scope to include work with regional, state and national issues. He has been involved with the North Bay YMCA, the Solano County Tea Party Patriots and the Solano County Republican Party.
He described himself as an innovator and a small-business person who, as a city councilman, used the city’s resources to help steer Suisun City through tough economic times without significantly cutting city services.
Hudson said he wants to examine the workers’ compensation system, and help small businesses by cutting regulation, reducing red tape and rolling back state business fees.
As for the state budget, “it is not balanced; it is full of gimmicks and sleight-of-hand tricks, and they are not seriously talking about the revenue situation,” he said.
Hudson said he wants to work to put the budget in order without taking money from local government, so the state will stop “using us as an ATM and telling us how to manage our affairs,” and putting too many regulations in place that are a drag on the economy.
“We need to better support the manufacturing and business community,” he said. “We need to be helping these people and working with them.”
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