- Party: Democratic
 - Occupation: State Senator
 - Member of the California State Assembly
 - Economic Development Deputy, LA City Council
 - Consultant, U.S. Small Business Administration
 - Small Business Owner
 - Credentialed Community College Lecturer
 - Stanford University, BA, University Santa Clara School of Law
  
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Top Priorities if Elected |   
- Job creation and economic development
 - Comprehensive health care reform, including the expansion of medi-cal, Healthy Families, and guaranteed coverage of the uninsured.
 - Environmental and water quality protection
  
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- LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas (fmr. 26th District Sen.)
 - LA County Federation of Labor-Firefighters, Nurses, Deputy Sheriffs
 - Senate President  pro Tem Darrell Steinberg
  
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