Fresno County Dems News and Election Information June 3, 2022

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Newsletter: June 3, 2022
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June 7 Primary Election Deadline! (#June-7-Primary)

Our Endorsements (#Endorsements)

Superintendent of Schools Race (#Sup-of-Schools)

Local Campaigns Still Need Your Help (#Local-Campaigns)

Noha Elbaz’s Plea After Shootings (#Noha-Elbaz)

Election Night Watch Party (#Election-Night-Watch)

March For Our Lives Fresno (#March-for-our-lives)

Insurrection Committee Hearings Watch Party (#Insurrection-Hearings)

Precinct Captains (#Precinct-Captain)

Fellowship Program (#Fellowship-Program)

Democratic Party Website and HQ (#Dem-HQ)

You should have received your ballot via the mail, and perhaps you’ve already voted. If you have, then it is now your turn to spread the word to your social net and ensure that everyone you know does so as well!

Political commentators always say that Democrats have a disadvantage on voter turnout, despite our great numbers. Let’s do our part to prove them wrong.
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It seems as if we were just filling out our ballots for the last special election, but we have another round of voting currently under way. The primary, done in California’s characteristic “jungle” free-for-all style, will be on June 7, and it is joined by a second round of voting to fill the last few months of Devin Nunes’ abandoned term and a particularly odd special election involving Alex Padilla’s U.S. Senate seat.

Get ready; being an informed citizen requires homework. What follows are endorsements from the Democratic Party along with descriptions of a few candidates and races.


Our Party Endorsements

U.S. Senate (Special): Alex Padilla

U.S. Senate (Regular): Alex Padilla

(Yes, you need to vote for Alex Padilla twice.)


Other Statewide Races

Governor: Gavin Newsom

Lieutenant Governor: Eleni Kounalakis

Secretary of State: Dr. Shirley Weber

Attorney General: Rob Bonta

Treasurer: Fiona Ma

Controller: Malia Cohen

Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tony Thurmond

Insurance Commissioner: Ricardo Lara


Local Races

Board of Equalization District 1: Braden Murphy

U.S. Congress District 5: Mike Barkley

U.S. Congress District 13: Adam Gray

U.S. Congress District 20: Marisa Wood

U.S. Congress District 21: Jim Costa

U.S. Congress District 22 (Special): Lourin Hubbard

U.S. Congress District 22 (Regular): Rudy Salas


State Senate District 12: Susanne Gundy

State Senate District 14: Anna Caballero

Assembly District 27: Esmeralda Soria

Assembly District 31: Joaquin Arambula

Assembly District 33: Jose Sigala


Fresno County Board of Supervisors District 4: Jose Ramirez

Fresno City Council District 1: Annalisa Perea

Fresno City Council District 3: Miguel Arias

Fresno City Council District 5: Luis Chavez

Fresno City Council District 7: Nelson Esparza
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The Fresno County Democratic Party recognizes two candidates as well-qualified and prepared to lead the community as Fresno County superintendent of schools: Eliseo Gamino and Dr. Daren Miller.

Miller, a near-lifelong Fresno County resident, has a diverse and expansive background in education and long involvement in various community interests. He has also served as a Fresno County Board of Education trustee.

Born in Mexico, Gamino is the son of a bracero farmworker. Currently employed by the Raisin City School District, he has spent his career in a diverse array of educational positions. He is currently a Firebaugh-Los Deltas Unified School District trustee.

Miller outlines five key areas of focus for the superintendent role: investments in early education, English-language learners, technology systems, investments in social-emotional, and extra- and co-curricular activities.

Gamino says, “education is linked to social mobility. That’s why the education of our children and our youth is so important so they can succeed as adults and be the backbone of the county and the Valley.”

“I want schools, school districts and our countywide education system to be the heartbeat, the pulse, the thriving part that connects all of us to betterment—to better jobs, to better communities, to a better existence,” notes Miller. “Right now, our educational system is not like that.”

“I’ll ask for equity and balanced resources to make sure that all schools are spending their revenue in the correct locations and categories,” says Gamino. “We have subgroups of vulnerable populations, and they need adequate attention to help them to bridge the academic gap. If this gap widens, then we are not providing a good service.”

Miller has attended school board meetings throughout the county during the campaign and believes in that type of engagement. “If there’s something of importance, I’m going to be there,” he says. “I am not afraid to go to nontraditional settings to better understand.

“I am running for superintendent of education because I want to make a positive impact,” notes Gamino. “I see a lot of issues with kids: dropping out, deserting the public school system, high unemployment and homelessness. We have to invest resources in all segments of our society.”

Fresno County residents would be well served by either of these candidates as superintendent of schools. The party’s rules preclude formally endorsing two candidates for the same seat.

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Election Day is almost here, and there are many opportunities to help elect Democrats!

Please join us for one or more of the events listed below!

Annalisa Perea for Fresno City Council
Phonebanks (virtual events on Zoom)
Sunday, 5 p.m.–7:30 p.m.; Monday, 5 p.m.–7:30 p.m.; Tuesday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
www.mobilize.us/fresnocountydemocraticparty/event/462144/
In Person
Contact Mayra Campa at 559-344-9236 (tel:559-344-9236)
Sunday, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
Luis Chavez for Fresno City Council
Canvassing through Primary Election Day
Call 559-287-0064 (tel:559-287-0064) or e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Canvassing-Fresno%20Dems%20Newsletter)

Election Eve Phonebank to Get Out the Vote for Fresno County Democrats

In person at the Democratic Party HQ (1033 U St.)
Monday, 3 p.m.–6 p.m.
www.mobilize.us/fresnocountydemocraticparty/event/464897/


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Clovis parents who fought COVID masking, are you as outraged over school shootings?

We have a common-sense issue in this country. A growing minority is willing to accept anything that a political party, and its media arm, will tell them, and have all but stopped thinking for themselves.

These past two years have shown how up in arms people are willing to get when they think their children are impacted. We have seen teachers take the brunt of this rage as people have been led to believe that teachers and schools are hurting their kids. They are told this by politicians, media, and religious leaders, to name a few.

Yet, when it comes to the actual protection of our children in their classrooms from gun violence, those same people will tell you that there is nothing that can be done.

Where is the outrage? Where is the action? You stood at board meetings and yelled because you wouldn’t tolerate your children with masks intended to save them from disease. Where are you now? Where are you when a school filled with children had to cower in fear while grown adults, who were armed and trained, were too scared to go in? Do you think of those children who got dressed in their best to receive honor roll certificates to only hours later be so decimated by bullets they could only be identified with DNA samples? Do you think of those moms and dads and sisters and brothers and children who will never see those smiling faces again? Do you think of the fear that must have been felt by those trapped for an hour, calling for help, to no avail?

Do you delude yourself into thinking that “This doesn’t impact me—my kids are safe. So, I’ll just keep voting for that politician who says, it’s not the guns—it’s the mental health; the 2nd Amendment has no limits; we just don’t have enough God, that’s why people are dying and there’s nothing we can do.” Enough.

We have all the proof we need that gun laws work. Country after country has taken aggressive action following just one mass shooting, and all but eliminated mass shootings. What are we waiting for? What are we “thinking” about? What are we “praying” for? A solution?? We have the solution! Politicians are gas-lighting us while they benefit from the death and destruction in one community after the next. Think about it. What are we doing?

During the Cold War, children were taught to duck and cover, as though this was somehow going to save them from a bomb. Now? We teach our kids to hide silently in corners or in closets in the hope they can escape the bullets. What are we doing?

The reason we call them common sense gun laws is because they are common sense. Stop allowing yourself to be brainwashed. Take a good look at your family and your friends. Are you OK sacrificing them to the gun lobby and the politicians that are bought by them? That’s exactly what you are doing when you walk into a voting booth and continue to put politicians like this into power. Politicians who will tell you to believe them, and not your own eyes.

As singularly focused as people became on doing everything they could to “stop the tyranny” of masks, it’s time we get singularly focused on the actual thing that is now the No. 1 cause of death for children in this country: Guns.

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March For Our Lives Fresno
Please join the March for our Lives Fresno Saturday, 6/11/22 at 11AM for. Let us come together in peaceful protest to make our voices heard and send a clear message that we will no longer tolerate the daily onslaught of gun violence in our communities and in our country. We will meet at the SE corner of Blackstone and Nees (by the River Park sign). This will be a peaceful protest, observing all traffic laws and staying on the sidewalk.
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After the election, join fellow Democrats to watch the January 6 Committee hearing in person at the Democratic Party HQ (1033 U St.) on Thursday June 9, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. www.mobilize.us/fresnocountydemocraticparty/event/465207/
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Want to help us win in 2022? Be a precinct captain! Join and become a part of our team! To join us, e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Precinct%20Captains) .
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We are helping create the next generation of Democrats in the Central Valley! Are you a student interested in getting involved and learning more about the political world? You would be ideal for our fellowship program! For more information, e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3B%20Fellowship%20Program) .

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Visit Your Democratic Headquarters! Our office is now open, and we can’t wait to see you again! Help us register people to vote or change to vote by mail. Pass out candidate or issue literature and pick up candidate swag! Sign up to help us around the office!

News and events will alway arise faster than this newsletter can come out. That is why the Fresno County Democratic Party website is the best place to get regular updates on upcoming events in the area, as well as information on ways to get involved. There is also information on scheduled meetings of the many Democratic clubs in Fresno County, so you can find one that most suits you and your interests

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The Democratic Party HQ (1033 U St ([link removed]) .) is open 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Monday–Friday. Call 559-495-0606 (tel:559-495-0606) or e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Newsletter-6-3-22) for information or to volunteer.

Support your local Democratic Party by donation viaActBlue ([link removed]) or by mailing a check to Fresno County Democratic Party, P.O. Box 5795, Fresno, CA 93755.


Our newsletter is prepared by Francis Horan.

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