Solache leads the Los Angeles Basin metropolis of about 67,000 folks, and was elected to its Metropolis Council in 2013. He has vowed that if elected to the Meeting, he’ll work to decrease school prices, spend money on after-school packages, and improve public security with quicker police and hearth response instances.
He has been endorsed by former Speaker Rendon, the state Democratic Get together and unions together with SEIU California’s service employees. He’s a former member of the Lynwood Unified college board and serves as president of the Larger Lakewood Chamber of Commerce.
Estrada is a progressive activist who resides in South Gate. Environmental justice and corruption in native authorities are key causes she’s working, based on her marketing campaign Fb web page.
She and different supporters of the Democratic presidential campaigns of Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders have led protests criticizing the California Democratic Get together. She has run for the district’s Meeting seat earlier than, together with in 2022, when she secured 36% of the vote to Rendon’s 64%.
Jones, the one Republican within the race, is a retired pc teacher who served within the Marines.
On his marketing campaign web site, he says that below present Democratic management, California is on the “highway towards socialism.” He opposes a slew of legal guidelines signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, together with these involving gun management, assist for immigrants within the U.S. illegally and office protections backed by labor unions.
In 2022, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress, dropping to incumbent Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-San Pedro).
