Petition to stop Richard Pan
This isn’t left vs. right.
It’s right vs. wrong.
Richard Pan’s 12 years in the California Legislature produced a record of unmatched extremism and partisan overreach: bills to strip parental rights, defy established science, and that were repeatedly rejected as too radical for even the Democrat Supermajority. If he gets to Congress, we believe Pan would seek to write that same overreach into federal law – for every family in America. The record below is sourced and specific. Read it, and add your name.
Richard Pan’s 12 years in the CA Legislature produced a record of unmatched extremism and partisan overreach: bills to strip parental rights, defy established science, and that were repeatedly rejected as too radical for even the Democrat Supermajority. If he gets to Congress, we believe Pan would seek to write that same overreach into federal law – for every family in America. The record below is sourced and specific. Read it, and add your name.
Every signature puts Pan’s record in front of more California parents.
nonpartisan Freedom Index
Why this petition exists
We believe in public health. That’s exactly why we’re here.
We’re parents who listen to our pediatricians and take our children’s health seriously. Richard Pan – a pediatrician who represented the Sacramento region in the State Assembly (2010–2014) and Senate (2014–2022) – repeatedly defied his training and targeted our children with lasting consequences.
Strong public health is built on public trust. Supporters of this petition believe several bills Pan authored damaged that trust: substituting ideology for science, taking power from parents, overruling treating physicians, setting students back, and even moving to silence the experts who answered him with evidence.
Every parent should know this record. Read it, check the sources, and decide for yourself.
The COVID years
Further than Fauci.
Dr. Anthony Fauci became the face of America’s COVID response, but his power was advisory – guidance and recommendations. Senator Pan repeatedly ignored that guidance in an attempt to impose policies unlike anything seen elsewhere in the country.
At the height of the pandemic, Pan pushed further than Dr. Fauci’s recommendations and further than Governor Newsom – keeping schools closed longer than any state, and seeking a COVID vaccine mandate for every kindergartner in California.
Did you know?
Pan scored a ZERO on the nonpartisan Freedom Index – which rates legislators on adherence to constitutional principles, without endorsing any party or candidate.
The record – sourced & specific
Pan’s agenda would hurt families.
Each entry states what the bill did, the role Pan played, and why it matters. Notice what they all have in common.
SB 871
COVID vaccine mandate for every schoolchild
Authored by Pan · Jan 2022 · shelved April 2022
The plan: Add the COVID vaccine to California’s required school immunizations for all K–12 students and childcare attendees, public and private, with no personal-belief exemption – further than CDC policy and further than the Governor’s own plan. No state ever adopted such a policy.
Why parents are concerned: It showed where the road led – children barred from every classroom in the state over a vaccine the federal government never required for school. It failed because parents spoke up. Proof that petitions like this one work.
SB 866
Vaccinating minors without a parent’s consent
Co-authored by Pan & Sen. Scott Wiener · 2022
The plan: Allow minors to receive vaccinations without parental knowledge or permission. Withdrawn before a final Assembly vote.
Why parents are fed up: It revealed a clear philosophy – that parents can be cut out of major medical decisions for their own children. It failed only because public opposition was overwhelming, not because its authors changed their minds.
USA Today
Schools closed and went remote to fight COVID-19. The impacts linger 5 years later.
Educators say students returned with weaker academic skills, and the setbacks are proving hard to undo.
NPR
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Post-Pandemic Teen Mental Health Crisis
Newly published data points to a deepening teen mental-health crisis in the pandemic’s wake.
ScienceDaily
Kids’ anxiety and depression dropped fast after COVID school reopenings
Children who returned to in-person school had far fewer mental-health diagnoses than those kept home.
School closures
Kept schools closed longest in the nation
Voted to kill the Kiley reopening amendment · Mar 2021
What happened: Pan led the charge to keep California’s schools closed. When students in other states were back in class, he voted to defeat an amendment to reopen ours and dismissed the parent groups pushing to return – then kept raising the threat of further closures as late as May 2022, long after the rest of the country had moved on. California’s closures were the longest in the nation.
Why parents are concerned: Families watched their kids fall behind and struggle while the politicians who caused it faced no consequences.
More Pan-led failures
AB 1993
Employer vaccine mandate
Co-authored by Pan · 2022
Would have forced every California worker and independent contractor to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or lose their job. The backlash was severe enough that the bill was halted in March 2022 and never became law.
AB 2098
Restrictions on doctors’ speech
Co-authored by Pan · 2022
Gave the state power to strip physicians of their medical licenses for questioning the official COVID-19 narrative, even as the science was still evolving. A federal judge blocked it for its “chilling effect” on speech, and the Legislature repealed it.
SB 742
Restrictions on protest
Authored by Pan · 2021
Created “no-speech zones” around drugstores, supermarkets, and other vaccination sites – allowing favored groups to gather while barring citizens opposed to his mandates. The measure was quickly voided in court as a violation of the First Amendment.
SB 1464
Defund police over health mandates
Authored by Pan · 2022
Would have stripped funding from law-enforcement agencies that didn’t enforce public-health mandates as aggressively as Pan wanted – diverting resources from fighting crime. It was so toxic it never cleared a single committee or reached a floor vote.
A doctor should know better.
Richard Pan spent years in Sacramento treating parents like a problem to be managed – and now he wants to take that agenda to Washington. When his own party pushed back on his overreach, he didn’t flinch. When officials across the country called to reopen schools, Pan stood alone, clinging to a position that kept our children home and our families struggling. That’s not science. That’s ideology.
Sending him to Washington could mean nationalizing the policies he tried to impose on California. Pan in Washington isn’t just a bad idea – it’s a threat. Stop him here.