Get the facts on the California candidates running for election to the District 80-2020 — California State Assembly
Find out their top 3 priorities, their experience, and who supports them.
Priya Sridhar speaks to candidates running in Special Election for CA Assembly District 80
Jacob Aeres interviews all three candidates for Assembly District 80 - special election
As a life-long community organizer and the first LGBTQ Latina City Council President, I have spent my life fighting for working families and underserved communities. I’ve taken on corporate polluters, expanded affordable housing, been a leader on protecting the environment, stood up for victims of domestic violence, and been a policy maker for progressive change. Some of my most impactful accmplishments at the City include passing a Section 8 anti-discrimination ordinance, updating the inclusionary housing code, formally opposing a wall along our southern border, keeping a library in my district from being closed, and leading the Council during the Covid-19 pandemic. I am running to represent the 80th Assembly District to continue this fight in the State Assembly for every family who is struggling and every neighborhood that’s been left behind.
When elected, Georgette wants to prioritize the housing and homelessness crisis which has been exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic. No one should wonder where they will lay their head to rest at night.
Georgette Gómez believes that it’s outrageous that half a million Americans are sleeping on the streets every night. As City Council President, Georgette made affordable housing one of her key priorities. She wrote an ordinance outlawing landlords from discriminating against low-income families and the housing action plan she led the City Council to adopt jump-started the construction of homes that working families can afford. In the Assembly, Georgette will be a tenacious advocate for ensuring more homes are constructed so all incomes levels can afford a roof over the head, not just the rich.
At the assembly, Georgette will address the climate crisis that has negative health impacts on the residents of the South Bay. The South Bay has some of the highest levels of air pollution and I will work to increase green spaces and protect our environment.
Georgette Gómez knows we are facing a climate emergency. That’s why she supports a Green New Deal to tackle the climate crisis and create millions of clean energy jobs. As a community organizer that fought back against corporate polluters, Georgette learned that change comes from engaging the community. We have a climate crisis and we must act now. Georgette is pushing for full implementation of San Diego’s landmark Climate Action Plan, which puts the city on the path to 100% clean energy. In the State Capitol, Georgette will continue to be a champion for building a sustainable, equitable future.
Georgette will work to ensure the advancement of working families by expanding healthcare access, combatting income inequality and fighting for good union jobs in our community.
While working families are struggling to make ends meet, the wealthiest corporations in history are paying their workers low wages without benefits and nothing in taxes. This is an unfair economic deal that starves our schools and robs workers of the opportunities they want to give their families better lives. Most Americans are working longer and harder for less. In the Assembly, Georgette will fight to create jobs that pay living wages, push to strengthen unions, and ensure that we are providing workers with important quality of life benefits such as paid vacation time, retirement benefits, paid sick leave, and paid family leave.
David Alvarez is small business owner. David started Causa Consulting after 15 years of successful government service including eight years as an elected official as San Diego City Councilmember. He has served as a member of major San Diego public organizations including the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, San Diego Association of Governments, Metropolitan Transit System. He also served on the Board of the League of Cities’ Latino Caucus and the national Board of Local Progress.
David proudly advocated on behalf of the underserved in San Diego. He has made economic and environmental justice a priority for all communities. David led the efforts to annually increase investment in the city’s arts and culture programming during his time on the City Council. Among David’s proudest achievements are the building of major infrastructure projects like Cesar Solis Park, a new library branch in San Ysidro, and updating of community plans in Southeast San Diego, Otay Mesa, and San Ysidro and the revitalization of Barrio Logan. David was the champion of the “Save San Diego High” campaign where voters approved Measure I allowing San Diego High School to remain at its current location. David also successfully created one of the first-and only-Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts in California and led on Measure O approved in 2018 allowing the issuance of bonds to accelerate the funding of critical infrastructure projects in Otay Mesa.
David has been an advocate in Sacramento, Washington DC and in Mexico to move forward other projects such as the San Ysidro Port of Entry Modernization, the Cross Border Xpress and to increase Customs and Border Protection personnel for land, sea and air Ports of Entry. David worked closely with three city of Tijuana administrations, two Baja California Governors and with several cities in Mexico including Tecate, Los Cabos, Leon, and Rosarito. David is proud to maintain strong relationships and frequently collaborates with his former Mexican colleagues who are now in local, state and federal elected office. In addition to these binational efforts, David has led bi-partisan efforts to eliminate regulations and unnecessary bureaucracies and assisted in settling major disputes such as the De La Fuente lawsuit, the largest and longest running legal case in city history.
David was born and raised in Barrio Logan. He and his wife Xochitl, a successful educator, are raising their daughter and son in the community they grew up in hoping they learn the value of hard work, community and strong moral character. David volunteers on the Board of Kim Center for Gender Equity, Camarada, the San Diego Coffee Training Institute, Circulate San Diego and the PTA and Xochitl volunteers countless hours leading the Logan/Sherman Girl Scouts Troop and with a YMCA soccer team.
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