36 Facts About Travis Allen

Travis Ethan Allen was born on September 14,1973 and is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the California State Assembly.

Travis Allen was born in San Diego, California, and was raised in Chula Vista, California.

Travis Allen is an avid short board surfer, and he participated with 65 other people in a world-record setting ride for the most number of riders on a single surf board.

Travis Allen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from California State University, Long Beach.

Travis Allen is a Certified Financial Planner and has managed client investment accounts since 1996.

Travis Allen has owned a financial advisory and wealth management practice, the Wealth Strategies Group, since 2001.

In 2012, Travis Allen began his political career by running for California State Assembly's 72nd district.

Travis Allen unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California in the 2018 election.

Travis Allen has stated that he was running on a platform of spurring job creation and business growth by cutting California's high tax rate; using existing tax revenues to fix the state's deteriorating freeway and road infrastructure, opposing California's gas tax, and preventing future water shortages by increasing water storage capacity and completing the landmark California Water Project.

Travis Allen proposed redacting recently implemented laws.

Travis Allen used his efforts to repeal the SB 1 gas tax increase and his opposition to illegal immigration as key stances in his campaign.

On May 1,2018, Travis Allen spoke at a California Republican primary forum in Atascadero, California.

Travis Allen has been criticized by pundits and fact-checking sites for these claims.

Travis Allen has made claims on the Oroville Dam regarding water capturing measures he wants to implement if elected, about high crime rates in California, and about the so-called "sanctuary laws" in California.

In 2018, Travis Allen made the claim that a new bill in California would "literally" "ban the sale of the Bible", a claim he has repeated despite having been fact-checked by several media outlets.

Travis Allen has made the claim multiple times that California legalized child prostitution.

Travis Allen was criticized for missing several days of work at the California State Assembly while he was out campaigning.

Travis Allen said that he wants his supporters to "stand up and fight" to "take back California".

Travis Allen started the Take Back California Political Action Committee.

Midway through his campaign for California Governor, in 2017 Travis Allen raised $447,236 for his campaign and had expenditures of $654,602 during that time according to an official campaign filing.

Travis Allen was scored positively for voting yes on AB 1561, a bill which proposed to "exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tampons, sanitary napkins, menstrual sponges, and menstrual cups"; and SB 999, a bill intended to require that health insurance companies "cover up to a 12-month supply of FDA-approved, self-administered hormonal contraceptives".

Travis Allen has stated that he opposes mandatory full-day kindergarten, because he believes that children are being indoctrinated by "liberal curriculum".

Travis Allen wants to end Common Core's application at the state level, instead allowing local districts to set their own curricula.

Travis Allen alleges that the money will be spent on Democratic "budgetary mistakes".

Travis Allen authored a failed bill which would have changed California into a shall issue CCW state.

Travis Allen opposed the proposed Medicare expansion and child vaccination policy under SB 277.

Travis Allen has stated opposition to single-payer healthcare noting its high cost and crippling effect on the state budget.

Travis Allen voted no on Senate Bill 54 when it came to the California State Assembly for a floor vote on September 15,2017.

Travis Allen has vocally opposed the "Sanctuary State" bill speaking out against it publicly for the first time on February 1,2017, on the John and Ken show on KFI AM 640.

Travis Allen continued his opposition to SB 54 and, as he called it, the "illegal sanctuary state" on January 2,2018, when he appeared on the Fox News show, Tucker Carlson Tonight where he invited President Donald Trump and United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions to sue Sacramento over the new "Sanctuary State" law.

Travis Allen would appear several more times on Fox News and other networks repeating this invitation throughout 2018.

Travis Allen has disputed statements about the details of the bill and about support for it.

Travis Allen's assertions regarding public support for the sanctuary state are based on various polls, Polls come from different focus groups, conservative vs liberal although this has been a point of debate as well.

Travis Allen is a supporter of Voter ID laws in the United States, specifically in California, and has made this a part of his platform for his race for governor in California.

Travis Allen has stated publicly and via his social media accounts, that there is voter fraud in California.

Travis Allen "made up" inaccurate numbers for the number of registered voters in California, according to newspaper opinion writer, Dan Morain.