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Working Families Party is endorsing Jane Kim in her run for California Insurance Commissioner. Kim will harness the power of the office, too often beholden to the insurance industry, to actually serve residents by ensuring that everyone can access affordable coverage. Jane Kim was until recently the State Director of California Working Families Party, where she led the recruitment, training, and election support for scores of elected officials across the state. These Working Families Party-aligned elected officials are serving on school boards, city councils, and in the state legislature, advocating for affordable housing, accessible healthcare, adequately funded public schools, and other issues squeezing working families. She also led the Party’s recent work on Proposition 50, overcoming billionaire spending resulting in a people-led victory.

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Jane Kim for California Insurance Commissioner — a proven progressive leader who has spent her career fighting for working families and taking on corporate power. She built a strong record advancing consumer protections, environmental justice, healthcare access, and economic fairness — consistently standing with grassroots movements over corporate lobbyists.

Bernie Sanders endorsed. Statewide office candidate.

The property and casualty insurance industry reported record-breaking profits of $169 billion last year—a 90% increase over 2023 and a staggering 333% increase over 2022. Meanwhile, everyday Californians are seeing their premiums rise, while hundreds of thousands of policies are being cancelled. Insurance is supposed to reduce our collective risk and protect our biggest investments. For most working families, that means our homes, our cars and our pension plans. In practice, the insurance industry plays a major role in determining who in California gets to build wealth—and at what cost. But instead of focusing on providing a critical service, the industry has made maximizing profit its primary mission.

Jane Kim, the former S.F. supervisor and California director of the Working Families Party, is a force in city and state progressive politics. And though she admits she doesn’t have a background in the insurance industry, that’s actually a plus (https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/jane-kim-insurance-commissioner/): we believe California’s Insurance Commissioner needs to take on the big insurers, not cozy up to them. 

The state Insurance Commissioner regulates the nation’s largest property and casualty insurance market, approves premium rate increases, and regulates life, health, and workers’ comp insurance. Homeowners insurance is entwined with real estate and mortgage lending, and health insurance is entwined with, well, health. So Insurance Commissioner is a hugely important job, which is why it matters to have a commissioner who shares our values and prioritizes the public over profits. 

Insurers have been going wild in California, driving up the cost of living by canceling homeowners’ policies, abandoning whole areas of the state, increasing premiums to unimaginable highs, and denying claims. After the devastating fires in Los Angeles, voters say they’re fed up, and most of the candidates are at least giving lip service to reform.  Jane Kim is proposing to create a public insurer for natural disasters, much like the system in New Zealand (https://www.consorsegurosdigital.com/en/numero-21/sumario/contributions/new-zealands-natural-hazards-insurance-scheme-is-based-on-lessons-of-the-past/), and she promises to use the office to rein in the powerful industry and develop new, functional alternatives. Right on, Jane!

Vote Jane Kim for Insurance Commissioner!

Source (https://www.theleaguesf.org/blog#InsuranceCommissioner)

The insurance industry has put profits over people for far too long. The role of the California Insurance Commissioner is to lead the nation's largest state consumer protection agency to regulate the insurance industry. We've always known Jane Kim to be a fighter who knows how to get things done for working families in San Francisco. As Insurance Commissioner, we know that she can lead where others have failed because of the lack of political will. She has a plan to reimagine a better industry that actually serves everyday Californians, including natural disaster insurance for all, ending pricing discrimination practices for auto insurance, and ensuring fast and fair claims.

Source (https://www.milkclub.org/endorsements)

Kim’s platform is in direct alignment with our core mission, and she articulated a deep understanding of what is broken in California’s insurance landscape. Her policy proposals are concrete, consumer-centered, and timely. As climate change accelerates and other challenges impact the availability and affordability of car, renters’, and homeowners insurance across the state, California needs an Insurance Commissioner with the vision and will to implement innovative policies and advocate for consumers.

She has had a long relationship with SFWPC and has made herself available when we reached out about issues and concerns we had with her past platforming of a known abuser after his abuse was made public (https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-Jane-Kim-apologizes-for-bringing-man-16543560.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3NmL2FydGljbGUvUy1GLXMtSmFuZS1LaW0tYXBvbG9naXplcy1mb3ItYnJpbmdpbmctbWFuLTE2NTQzNTYwLnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTc3NDQ2MjMzNjYxNg%3D%3D&rid=MTcwNzM4YmItZmQ3YS00M2FhLThjNGItZjdiMzg5N2NlODhk&sharecount=Mg%3D%3D). We have had productive dialogues, and she has demonstrated a public understanding of past harms, a willingness to engage with us to correct harmful behaviors and cultures that perpetuate abuse, and a commitment to uphold SFWPC’s standards for safety and equity in political spaces. That accountability and subsequent action matter to us. We look forward to working with her to advance our shared work and protect the economic interests of all San Franciscans and Californians.

Source (https://sfwpc.org/pac-recommendations-for-june-2026-election/)

The office of the Insurance Commissioner has in the past been a decent advocate for consumers; when John Garamendi had the job, he actually held some insurers to account and helped people fight for benefits. Not so under incumbent Ricardo Lara. The insurance industry in this state is out of control, denying or delaying claims in catastrophic fires, raising rates for car insurance, threatening to leave the state … and Lara has done little to nothing about it.

Jane Kim, former SF supervisor and director at the Working Families Party, is running a grassroots campaign to try to change that. She’s talking about a public option for car insurance, disaster insurance for everyone, and mandatory deadlines on claims. Nobody else in the race is offering that consumer-based approach. We’re backing Kim.

Source (https://www.sfbg.com/2026/05/06/endorsements-for-the-june-2-election/)

The most important office in California that you may not have heard of is Insurance Commissioner. Historically this seat has been held by those who have catered hand over fist to the insurance industry. Jane is not one of those candidates. From making City College free to authoring the “Tenant Protections 2.0” package of 2015, Jane has a long track record of using government to work for working people. We have no doubt that Jane will bring that same tenacity to the role of Insurance Commissioner.

Source (https://sftu.org/endorsements)

Assyrian Democrats of the Bay Area and Democrats for Palestinian Rights – Bay Area proudly co-endorse Jane Kim for California State Insurance Commissioner.

Why We Support Jane — priorities when elected include:

• Freezing your rates when you file a claim
• Ensuring claims are fast and fair
• No investments to countries committing genocide
• Medicare for kids
• Expanding non-profit, low-cost auto insurance for all
• Requiring companies to pay interest on delayed claims
• Natural disaster insurance for all
• No fossil fuel investments
• Investing in preventative measures
• Cap corporate profits and CEO pay