- Phlunté Riddle, Democrat, a former legislation enforcement officer and public security commissioner.
Riddle, a state Board of Juvenile Hearings commissioner, previously served as Holden’s district director and unsuccessfully ran in 2016 for the state’s twenty fifth Senate District seat towards Sen. Anthony Portantino. She is endorsed by Holden, the president of SEIU California and state Treasurer Fiona Ma.
She spent 30 years working up the ranks within the Pasadena Police Division, the place she turned the division’s first Black feminine sergeant, lieutenant and adjutant to the chief of police, in line with her marketing campaign web site.
In her marketing campaign biography, Riddle mentioned she is most involved about points involving local weather, schooling, homelessness, transportation and equal rights. Her marketing campaign donors embody a number of legislation enforcement teams, the SEIU union and an area chapter of Deliberate Parenthood.
Riddle lives in Pasadena.
- John Harabedian, Democrat, a former prosecutor.
Harabedian was raised in Sierra Madre, the place he has labored as a prosecutor on the Los Angeles district lawyer’s workplace. He was a Sierra Madre Metropolis Council member from 2012 to 2020. He ran unsuccessfully for L.A. County supervisor in 2020.
He mentioned his most important legislative pursuits embody decreasing homelessness, combating local weather change, defending reproductive rights and stopping gun violence. “I imagine each Californian ought to have an inexpensive place to stay, a job that pays a livable wage, entry to high quality inexpensive healthcare, entry to pure sources like clear water and open house to outlive and thrive, and entry to the perfect free schooling doable,” he mentioned in an announcement to The Occasions.
His marketing campaign donors embody the Sensible Justice group that advocates for legal justice reform in addition to unions representing academics, nurses and electricians. Harabedian is endorsed by a number of state senators and Meeting members, the United Nurses Assns. of California and California Environmental Voters.
He lives in Pasadena.
- Jed Leano, Democrat, an immigration lawyer.
Leano is an immigration lawyer and first-generation American, born to Filipino immigrants. Since 2018, he has served on the Claremont Metropolis Council, the place he advocated for housing affordability and homelessness points, in line with his marketing campaign web site.
“I spearheaded the creation of Claremont’s Psychiatric Evaluation Care Crew (PACT), which responds to behavioral disaster calls. This groundbreaking program relieves the workload of public security officers whereas streamlining psychological well being companies,” Leano wrote in a Occasions questionnaire.
Leano’s marketing campaign has acquired assist from a number of housing organizations, together with the YIMBY (Sure In My Yard) group, which advocates for growing extra houses, and native tenants unions.
He lives in Claremont.
- Michelle Del Rosario Martinez, Republican, a group volunteer.
Martinez describes herself because the daughter of Peruvian immigrants. She was elected to the Altadena City Council in 2014, the place she mentioned she helped launch new companies in her district, in line with her marketing campaign biography. As a council member, she was quoted by The Occasions as saying that the GOP’s pro-business and low-tax agenda is nice for California. Her biography states that she has lived within the district for many of her life and attended Pasadena colleges.
She is endorsed by the California GOP. Martinez didn’t reply to The Occasions’ survey request.
