Tom Lackey gets an A+ rating from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. In the tax-happy land known as Sacramento, we need legislators like Lackey who are on the lookout to protect your pocketbook from further invasion. We endorse him for re-election to the state Assembly.

Lackey, R-Palmdale, serves a district that primarily covers the Antelope Valley but also includes a portion of the SCV, mostly on the northeastern side of our valley. He’s a former California Highway Patrol officer who served three terms on the Palmdale City Council. In Sacramento, he is a strong advocate for education, law enforcement and business.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lackey has worked alongside Wilk to push for improvements in the state EDD’s handling of unemployment claims, and also urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to give local and regional governments more autonomy in developing their reopening plans. He’s an advocate for crime victims, having authored bills seeking to end the backlog of rape kit processing and to toughen penalties for revenge porn in California.