California State Assembly — District 28
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AD-28 covers the southern tip of Santa Clara County (Gilroy and surrounding), Santa Cruz County, and parts of Monterey County. Incumbent Gail Pellerin faces a single Republican challenger. Issues: agricultural-coast housing, wildfire preparedness, election administration (Pellerin's specialty), and mental-health funding.
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Two-term Assemblymember (elected 2022, reelected 2024) and former Santa Cruz County Clerk and chief elections official (1993–2020, served as Clerk 2004–2020). Past President of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials (2010–2012). Chairs the Assembly Elections Committee and the Select Committee on California's Mental Health Crisis — the latter informed by personal experience after her husband's suicide in 2018. BS in journalism, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 1984.
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Small business owner; the Republican challenger.