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Cathy Cook
The 2020 California State Assembly election was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, with the primary election being held on March 3, 2020. Voters in the 80 districts of the California State Assembly elected their representatives. The elections coincided with the elections for other offices, including for U.S. president and the state senate. Predictions Overview Primary Election Retiring incumbents * 13th: Susan Eggman ( D– Stockton): Retiring to run for California State Senate * 25th: Kansen Chu (D– San Jose): Retiring to run for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors * 33rd: Jay Obernolte ( R–Big Bear Lake): Retiring to run for Congress * 37th: Monique Limón (D– Santa Barbara): Retiring to run for California State Senate * 38th: Christy Smith (D–Santa Clarita): Retiring to run for Congress * 57th: Ian Calderon (D– Whittier): Retiring * 67th: Melissa Melendez (R–Lake Elsinore): Retiring to run for California State Senate * 78th: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California State Assembly
The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature (the upper house being the California State Senate). The Assembly convenes, along with the State Senate, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California, Sacramento. Neither house has been expanded since the ratification of the California Constitution, 1879 Constitution, and each of the 80 members represent at least 465,000 people, more than any other state lower house, and second largest of any lower house in the United States after the federal United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives. Members of the California State Assembly are generally referred to using the titles Assemblyman, Assemblywoman, or Assemblymember. In the current legislative session, California Democratic Party, Democrats have a three-fourths supermajority of 60 seats, while California Republican Party, Republicans control a minority of 19 seats. Leadership The Speaker of the California Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Party Of California
The Green Party of California (GPCA) is a California political party. The party is led by a coordinating committee, and decisions are ultimately made by general assemblies. The GPCA is affiliated with the Green Party of the United States (GPUS). As of February 10, 2023, there are 97,253 people registered to vote with Green party-preference, 0.44%, the sixth-largest. As of January 2022, there are twenty-nine California Green elected officials, including two elected-mayors and three in municipal councils. History On February 4, 1990, Greens gathered at California State University, Sacramento, authored bylaws, founded the GPCA, and started a voter registration drive. The GPCA adopted the leaf-G logo which cartoonist Harry Driggs designed for the Green Party of San Francisco in the 1980s and which represents the letter G of the party name as a leaf. Qualifying for elections On January 2, 1990, a month before foundation, Kent Smith sent notice to the secretary of state that the GPCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Obernolte
Jay Phillip Obernolte ( ; born August 18, 1970) is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for since 2021, when it was numbered as the 8th district. A Republican, he was previously a member of the California State Assembly representing the 33rd district. Before serving in the Assembly, Obernolte served on the city council and was the mayor of Big Bear Lake, California. He is the owner, president, and technical director of FarSight Studios, an American video game developer. Early life and education Obernolte was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Fresno, California. He graduated as valedictorian of Edison/Computech High School in 1988. In 1992, he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and applied science from the California Institute of Technology and in 1997, he received his Master of Science in artificial intelligence from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2020, he was awarded a Doctorate in Public Admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California's 33rd State Assembly District
California's 33rd State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by Republican Alexandra Macedo . District profile The district, one of the largest in California, encompasses a wide expanse of the High Desert, stretching from the Victor Valley to the Nevada and Arizona borders. It also includes several communities in the San Bernardino Mountains. The district's population is mostly concentrated in the southwest, with scattered settlements elsewhere. San Bernardino County – ''23.1%'' * Adelanto * Apple Valley * Baker * Barstow * Big Bear City * Big Bear Lake * Big River * Crestline * Helendale * Hesperia * Lake Arrowhead * Lenwood * Lucerne Valley * Needles * Phelan – ''partial'' * Running Springs * Trona * Victorville Election results from statewide races List of assembly members Due to redistricting, the 33rd district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County, California, San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California. The county seat and largest city with a population of 971,233 is San Jose, California, San Jose, the List of United States cities by population, 13th-most populous city in the nation, List of cities and towns in California, California's third-most populous city, and the List of cities and towns in the San Francisco Bay Area, most populous city in Northern California. Home to Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County is an economic center for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and Northern California and the List of United States cities by population, 12th-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of and is the county seat, seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County. Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was long inhabited by the Tamyen people, Tamien nation of the Ohlone people San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as the ''Pueblo de San José de Our Lady of Guadalupe, Guadalupe'', the first city founded in the Californias. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansen Chu
Kansen Chu ( born October 27, 1952) is a Taiwanese-born American politician. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, Chu was a member of the California State Assembly from 2014 to 2020, for the California's 25th State Assembly district, 25th District, which encompasses parts of the South Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), South and East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), East Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2019, Chu announced that he would not seek reelection for State Assembly in 2020, instead running for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. He lost to Otto Lee in the general election. On February 10, 2021, Chu was appointed to the Berryessa Union School District Board of Trustees to fill a vacant seat. His current term ends in 2022. Chu ran for the California's 24th State Assembly district, 24th Assembly district seat in the redrawn 2022 California State Assembly election, 2022 election, but was defeated in the primary by incumbent Alex Lee (politician), Alex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California's 25th State Assembly District
California's 25th State Assembly district is one of 80 California California State Assembly, State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by California Democratic Party, Democrat Ash Kalra of San Jose, California, San Jose. District profile The district encompasses the majority of San Jose, California, San Jose, including downtown and open space areas in southeast Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County. Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County – ''(25.55%)'' * San Jose, California, San Jose – ''(47.02%)'' Election results from statewide races List of assembly members Due to redistricting, the 25th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2021 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. Election results (1992–present) 2022 2020 2018 2016 2014 2012 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County in the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. It is the most populous city in the county, the List of municipalities in California, 11th-most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population, 60th-most populous city in the United States. Stockton's population in 2020 was 320,804. It was named an All-America City Award, All-America City in 1999, 2004, 2015, and again in 2017 and 2018. The city is located on the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley. It lies at the southeastern corner of a Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, large inland river delta that isolates it from other nearby cities such as Sacramento and those of the San Francisco Bay Area. Stockton was founded by Charles Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses. The city is named after Robert F. Stockton, and it was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Eggman
Susan Talamantes Eggman (born March 3, 1961) is an American politician who served in the California State Senate from 2020 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 5th Senate district, which encompasses western San Joaquin County; from January 19, 2022, she served as Assistant Majority Leader. Prior to being elected to the Senate in 2020, she was a member of the California State Assembly representing the 13th Assembly District as well as being a Stockton City Councilwoman and Associate Professor of social work at California State University, Sacramento. Eggman, a lesbian, was a member and past chair of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus. She was also a member of the California Latino Legislative Caucus. Laws she has written include the law establishing the California Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing Program, the End of Life Option Act, and the law establishing the National Guard’s Discovery Challenge Academy in French Camp. Biography Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California's 13th State Assembly District
California's 13th State Assembly district is one of 80 California California State Assembly, State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by California Democratic Party, Democrat Rhodesia Ransom of Tracy, California, Tracy. District profile The district consists of western San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County, including the southeastern quarter of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The district is a major gateway between the rest of the Central Valley (California), Central Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County – (63.03%) * Mountain House, California, Mountain House * Stockton, California, Stockton * Tracy, California, Tracy Election results from statewide races List of assembly members Due to redistricting, the 13th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2021 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commissi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
