These assembly districts were redistricted – their borders redrawn – so some cities were switched out for other cities.
Here’s a look at how state Assembly races play out in Districts 34, 39, 40, 42, 46, 51 and 55 in the upcoming March 5 primary election. All of these state assembly districts have been redistricted since the incumbents were elected — meaning that their borders were redrawn, and often their key cities were switched out for other key cities.
Some candidates see the redrawing of their borders as an advantage, giving them a better shot at winning the race. Some do not., R-Apple Valley, faces Democrat Ricardo Ortega following a dramatic Dec. 22 redistricting which moved Lackey’s district south from the Bakersfield area to Barstow, Palmdale, Lancaster and Needles. Lackey, 65, has represented AD 34 since 2014, served on Palmdale Elementary School District Board of Trustees and City Council and had a 28-year career with California Highway Patrol. He has championed efforts to combat drugged driving and to provide funding aimed at people with developmental disabilities. Ricardo Ortega grew up in the welfare and foster-care system and today is a peer advocate with the Children’s Law Center of California, and the inaugural Los Angeles County Youth Commission. He is endorsed by the California Democratic Party. His platform focuses on economic development, infrastructure and healthcare. At 17 Ortega worked on Assembly Bill 2247 , known as “A Place to Call Home,” to create stability for foster youths. At 20 he worked on AB-46 focused on the California Youth Empowerment Commission, whose aim is to promote civic engagement for youth.State Assemblymember Juan Carrillo, D-Palmdale, faces a challenge from Republican Paul Marsh. District 39 underwent a dramatic Dec. 2022 redistricting, moving the district away from the San Fernando Valley area to Victorville and parts of Palmdale and Lancaster. Carrillo, a former city planner and former Palmdale city councilmember, has several endorsements including Service Employees International Union . He was elected to the Assembly in 2022 and has authored 16 bills, six of which became law. Beforein the legislature, Carrillo was known as Antelope Valley’s only Democratic city councilmember. As a Palmdale City council member he focused on affordable housing, homelessness, green space and small businesses. Marsh, a U.S. Army veteran and resident of the High Desert for four decades, resident, built a career in the mortgage industry. He is a Victorville Planning Commissioner and a member of Victorville’s Homelessness Solutions Task Force. His platform touts “making housing affordable by slashing burdensome regulations, reducing inflation by cutting reckless government spending, lowering gas prices by cutting the gas tax and fighting crime by giving law enforcement the tools they need.”, D-Santa Clarita, who represents a redrawn district whose boundaries were moved in December 2022 from Wrightwood and San Bernardino to Santa Clarita and part of the San Fernando Valley. Gipson, a 24-year former Los Angeles County sheriff deputy, is running on a platform of protecting parental rights and is running to protect parental rights and help small businesss. He vows to take on career politicians “who continue to limit individual liberties and God-given freedoms.” He say thousands of Californians’ lives have been impacted by government overreach. Schiavo, elected in November 2022 by a narrow margin, was a small business owner and nurse advocate in the labor movement for 20-plus years. Schiavo, 49, has many endorsements including the California Democratic Legislative Women’s Caucus and raised more than $1 million for this race. As a legislator she was appointed Assistant Majority Whip in 2022 and introduced AB 1820, to simplify housing developer fees and provide information meant to ensure that affordable housing does not come with surprise costs.Redistricting moved District 42 from inland Palm Springs to the cities of Calabasas, Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks and pits state Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks who has raised $1 million against her Republican challenger Ted Nordblum, a 59-year-old small business owner who has not held an elected position and has raised $45,455. The district has 517,000 residents., which appears on the upcoming March 5 ballot and was signed by the governor in October, is a $6.38 billion bond to build new behavioral health housing and treatment settings in California. That bill and Senate Bill 326 will appear jointly on the March 2024 ballot as Proposition 1. Irwin also helped secure $27 million in Project Homekey funds for the construction of Thousand Oaks’ first homeless housing facility. Nordblum says he is the only candidate in this race committed to protecting Proposition 13, the popular 1978 voter-backed amendment to the California Constitution that restricts the state’s power to increase property taxes. His platform emphasizes cutting gas taxes, supporting law enforcement, strengthening the education system, defending parental rights and eliminating crime and homelessness. He has been endorsed by the California Republican Party and Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association PAC.Redistricting moved District 46 from primarily east San Fernando Valley to mostly west San Fernando Valley and is strongly held byGabriel, 42, a former constitutional rights attorney, authored the Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Act, a first-in-the-nation measure which taxes industry profits to fund gun violence prevention and school safety in California. He also authored the California Food Safety Act banning several toxic food additives linked to cancer and developmental issues in children. Schroeder, a teacher, is running on reducing gas and small business taxes, increasing public safety by working to make the streets clean and safe, ensuring consequences for criminal behavior, stopping human trafficking and fighting the influx of Fentanyl. She is also focus on homelessness and calls for increasing mental health facilities and enforcing vagrancy laws. Protecting parental and children’s rights are also on her radar.District 51’s boundaries were dramatically redrawn in 2022, removing the communities of Eagle Rock, Mt. Washington, Lincoln Heights, Highland Park, City Terrace, Chinatown and Echo Park and shifting the district to the west to include Hollywood, Franklin and Beachwood canyons, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica. AD 51 has about 497,000 residents.The 67-year-old Zbur, elected in November, 2022, graduated with a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1983 and spent decades at a downtown Los Angeles law firm as an environmental attorney. He is a well-known LGBT civil rights advocate and his unsuccessful run for Congress in 1996 softened barriers for gay candidates. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Zbur’s AB-1620, to strengthen housing security for tenants with permanent disabilities. Shiva Bagheri is a Beverly Hills resident, small business owner, conservative activist fighting for Constitutional rights since 2020 , according to her campaign website. She claims L.A. District Attorney George Gascon convicted only a handful of the 2,088 people arrested in her hometown in the last two years. Bagheri says she is an advocate for the homeless, legal immigrants and parents’ rights and says teachers and social workers should not undermine parents. Stephan Hohil is a 53-year-old entrepreneur and conservative, who says he wants to tackle crime and clean up the streets, including the homeless, rid the schools of leftist Marxists and protect students’ rights. He said he aims to change legislation and government leadership. Holhil hasn’t raised campaign funds and has no endorsements. He says he’s a believer of the First and Second Amendments and that District 51 is a “leftist disaster.”, was elected in November of 2022 in a lopsided win of 83.7% against his challenger, Keith Cascio. The two face men each other again in March to represent a district dramatically redrawn in 2022, moving it from inland areas such as Diamond Bar to encompass the Crenshaw district, Culver City, Ladera Heights, Mar Vista, Del Rey, Palms, Pico-Robertson, Beverly Grove and Mid-Wilshire. Bryan has been busy in the legislature. He secured funding to found the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA School of Law, the first Climate Change Education Center in the California Community College system at West Los Angeles College, a stipend program for students in the trades — and millions of dollars for projects in the 55th District, he says. He pushed for phasing out the Inglewood Oil Field and other oil drilling near communities , protecting students from predatory insurance practices and strengthening online campaign finance disclosure requirements . Republican candidate Kevin Cascio wants a shot at the action. He lists his platform as five-fold, starting with freedom and prosperity, reigning in government spending and making it cost-effective. He wants to create economic opportunities in low-income areas, support law enforcement and apply laws equally. Cascio wants to reorient the healthcare system towards less expensive preventive medicine. He doesn’t support illegal immigration but says he understands that legal immigrants want to “chase the American dream.” Protection of the environment and economic growth are also listed on his platform.You can vote at the Los Angeles County registrar’s office beginning Tuesday, Feb. 6. The registrar’s headquarters are at 12400 Imperial Highway, Room 3002, in Norwalk. That office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.Ballots begin/began going out on Monday, Feb. 5. You can submit VBMs in three ways: By mailing them to the registrar’s office ; by placing them in an official drop box; or by dropping them off at any county Vote Center.VBMs sent via mail must arrive no later than 10 days after the election, but they must be postmarked by March 5. The deadline to place VBMs in a drop box or deliver them to a Vote Center is 8 p.m. on Election Day.: Vote Centers open 10 days before Election Day. This year, that’s Saturday, Feb. 4. You can vote at any Vote Center in Los Angeles County. Prior to Election Day, the Vote Centers will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Election Day, they will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.In California, the order races are listed on ballots goes from local to federal, meaning the nominees for president will be listed at the bottom. Except for presidential races, California’s primaries for “partisan” offices – now known as “voter-nominated offices” have a top-two system. 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