Adrin Nazarian was elected in November 2012 to represent California’s 46th Assembly District, which includes the Hollywood Hills, Lake Balboa, North Hills, North Hollywood, Panorama City, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Toluca Lake, Valley Glen, Universal City, Van Nuys, and Valley Village.

Since his election, Adrin has passionately advocated for increased mass transit in the San Fernando Valley, smarter management of vital water resources through infrastructure improvements, protecting and expanding the film industry, and much-needed earthquake preparedness. He sits on the Assembly Committees on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media; Health; Rules; and Transportation.

Adrin is proud of his record taking on powerful special interests in Sacramento. He has led the fight in Sacramento:

• To bring entertainment jobs back to our communities;
• Expand homeless services to help people back on their feet;
• To take on the NRA to pass sensible gun laws;
• And to stand up to health insurance companies to allow doctors to prescribe medicine, not health insurance companies.

Not only is Adrin an influential voice for his constituents in Sacramento, he’s actively engaged in his district. To date, he has organized over 50 free women’s self-defense classes, reaching over 2,500 participants; and hosted or co-hosted over 100 events/year throughout the district – ranging from child car seat safety, ADA workshops, pet adoption events, and map your neighborhood events.

Adrin has always believed in civic engagement and the importance of giving back to his community. He has served on the boards of several community-based organizations including the East Valley YMCA and the YWCA. Adrin was one of the founding members of Generation Next Mentorship program, which worked with local public schools to give young people alternatives to a life of gangs and drugs.

Prior to being elected, he served as Chief of Staff to Paul Krekorian in both Mr. Krekorian’s capacity as Assistant Majority Leader in the California State Legislature and Los Angeles Councilmember. He also served as an aide to Congressman Brad Sherman, participated in the prestigious CORO Fellowship in Public Affairs program, and was appointed as Special Assistant to the California Trade and Commerce Agency by former Governor Gray Davis. 

Adrin attended UCLA, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He and his wife, Diana, live in West Toluca Lake with their children Alex, David and Maggie.

Roxanne Beckford was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She emigrated from the island in the late 70s, graduated from boarding school in South Florida, and from Davidson College with a degree in Psychology in 1986. After working in public and community relations in Miami for Citibank and the Rouse Company, she arrived in Southern California in the late 80s to become a working actor. She has done that now for over twenty years, starting out playing Whitley's cousin on A Different World and continuing to appear in television and movie roles even while marrying her husband and having and raising four children. Her IMDB page can be found here.

After her marriage and the addition of the surname Hoge, Roxanne and her husband Bob  founded a maternity clothing website in 1998.  Their foray into the world of the internet and brick-and-mortar retail has lasted almost two decades, and taught them many lessons about entrepreneurship and the practical effects of government regulation.

She became a citizen of the United States after the turn of the century and keenly appreciates all the wonders of this great nation, especially all that California represents.

• Common sense is missing from Sacramento

• Let parents parent 

• Let builders build

• Let law enforcement enforce the law

• Californians deserve better roads, lower taxes, and choice in education

I believe that the Founders of this great country got something very right when they intended civilians to move from their normal lives to serve for a time in government and then to move back again to live under the laws and rules they created. Career politicans and unelected bureaucrats have wreaked havoc on our once golden state. We need to grow business and to shrink government. Most of all, we need to return California to being a high-trust society, in which we are all agreed that we follow the laws as written and do not allow certain groups to escape consequences that would ensnare an average citizen.

If elected, I promise to work to reduce the legal and regulatory burden on those of us who have chosen to stay in California and to unleash the power of the private sector to create solutions to our challenges. Nothing good can happen while we navigate homeless encampments on our streets, and are told we can no longer keep anything at all in our cars, lest we become targets. I believe in Broken Windows policing, and creating the expectation that bad behavior will be punished.

In summation, my political philosophy is to get out of the way and let people lead their lives without the onerous burdens of excessive taxation and regulation. In other words, I am a classic liberal.