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Re-elect State Assemblymember Edwin Chau to keep AD-49 on the right track.
About the Position
State Assembly Members form part of the California State Legislature, and work alongside the governor to establish laws and a state budget. They hold the power to pass bills that affect public policy, set state spending levels, raise and lower taxes, and uphold or override the governor’s vetoes. The California State Assembly has 80 districts. Each represents a population of at least 465,000 Californians. Representatives are elected to the Assembly for a two-year term. Every two years, all 80 seats are subject to election. Members elected before 2012 are restricted to three two-year terms (six years) in the Assembly. Those elected in or after 2012 are allowed to serve 12 years total across both the State Senate and Assembly. This term, Democrats currently hold a two-thirds supermajority of 61 seats in the California State Assembly, while Republicans hold 17 seats. One seat is held by an Independent, and one seat is currently vacant.
About the District
California's 49th Assembly District includes parts of Los Angeles County. Democrats typically hold this district. The most recent election results show AD-49 voted for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and Gavin Newsom for governor in 2018.
About the Race
In the primary, Democrat incumbent Representative Edwin Chau led Republican challenger Burton Brink by a margin of 27.4 percent. Chau’s campaign has raised $243,884 and has not committed to any campaign finance pledges. Brink’s campaign has raised $24,886 and received over 50 percent of those funds from the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Association, Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, and Arcadia Police Officers Association.
About the Candidate
Rep. Edwin Chau, a former lawyer and Montebello School Board member, is from Hong Kong and grew up in Los Angeles. According to campaign materials, Rep. Chau is running for re-election to continue his fight for internet privacy protections, improve the San Gabriel Valley’s groundwater sources, and address the affordable housing crisis.
Rep. Edwin Chau’s accomplishments in AD-49 include increasing public school funding, lowering class sizes, passing extensive consumer privacy protections, and making drone surveillance an invasion of privacy. He currently sits on five committees: the Appropriations, Economic Development, Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Privacy and Consumer Protections Committees. Rep. Chau has sponsored 221 bills on such topics as worker compensation for those infected with COVID-19, regulating drone usage for package delivery, and cybersecurity analysis of public school districts this year, of which over 10 percent have successfully passed. He scores a lifetime 92 out of 100 on Courage Score, our annual analysis of legislators’ progressive voting records. Based on our Courage Score analysis, Rep. Chau has supported nearly all progressive bills that made it to a vote. That said, Rep. Chau has not supported repealing sentencing enhancements for those with prior offenses or preventing dialysis companies from redirecting their patients away from Medi-Cal.
Prior to his election to the State Assembly, Rep. Edwin Chau worked as a programmer for IBM, operated his own law office, and served on the Montebello Unified School District board for twelve years, acting as president three times. He has served as AD-49’s assemblymember since 2012 and is a longtime supporter of data security and privacy protections for everyday internet users.
Rep. Edwin Chau is endorsed by many progressive groups in the district. He has previously taken money from the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and California Association of Highway Patrolmen. However, the threat of Republican challenger and strong Trump supporter Burton Brink’s potential policies greatly outweighs Rep. Chau’s lack of campaign finance pledges. According to our analysis, Rep. Edwin Chau is the strongest choice for equitable and representative leadership in office.
Last updated: 2023-04-05Edwin Chau
Re-elect State Assemblymember Edwin Chau to keep AD-49 on the right track.
About the Position
State Assembly Members form part of the California State Legislature, and work alongside the governor to establish laws and a state budget. They hold the power to pass bills that affect public policy, set state spending levels, raise and lower taxes, and uphold or override the governor’s vetoes. The California State Assembly has 80 districts. Each represents a population of at least 465,000 Californians. Representatives are elected to the Assembly for a two-year term. Every two years, all 80 seats are subject to election. Members elected before 2012 are restricted to three two-year terms (six years) in the Assembly. Those elected in or after 2012 are allowed to serve 12 years total across both the State Senate and Assembly. This term, Democrats currently hold a two-thirds supermajority of 61 seats in the California State Assembly, while Republicans hold 17 seats. One seat is held by an Independent, and one seat is currently vacant.
About the District
California's 49th Assembly District includes parts of Los Angeles County. Democrats typically hold this district. The most recent election results show AD-49 voted for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and Gavin Newsom for governor in 2018.
About the Race
In the primary, Democrat incumbent Representative Edwin Chau led Republican challenger Burton Brink by a margin of 27.4 percent. Chau’s campaign has raised $243,884 and has not committed to any campaign finance pledges. Brink’s campaign has raised $24,886 and received over 50 percent of those funds from the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Association, Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, and Arcadia Police Officers Association.
About the Candidate
Rep. Edwin Chau, a former lawyer and Montebello School Board member, is from Hong Kong and grew up in Los Angeles. According to campaign materials, Rep. Chau is running for re-election to continue his fight for internet privacy protections, improve the San Gabriel Valley’s groundwater sources, and address the affordable housing crisis.
Rep. Edwin Chau’s accomplishments in AD-49 include increasing public school funding, lowering class sizes, passing extensive consumer privacy protections, and making drone surveillance an invasion of privacy. He currently sits on five committees: the Appropriations, Economic Development, Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Privacy and Consumer Protections Committees. Rep. Chau has sponsored 221 bills on such topics as worker compensation for those infected with COVID-19, regulating drone usage for package delivery, and cybersecurity analysis of public school districts this year, of which over 10 percent have successfully passed. He scores a lifetime 92 out of 100 on Courage Score, our annual analysis of legislators’ progressive voting records. Based on our Courage Score analysis, Rep. Chau has supported nearly all progressive bills that made it to a vote. That said, Rep. Chau has not supported repealing sentencing enhancements for those with prior offenses or preventing dialysis companies from redirecting their patients away from Medi-Cal.
Prior to his election to the State Assembly, Rep. Edwin Chau worked as a programmer for IBM, operated his own law office, and served on the Montebello Unified School District board for twelve years, acting as president three times. He has served as AD-49’s assemblymember since 2012 and is a longtime supporter of data security and privacy protections for everyday internet users.
Rep. Edwin Chau is endorsed by many progressive groups in the district. He has previously taken money from the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and California Association of Highway Patrolmen. However, the threat of Republican challenger and strong Trump supporter Burton Brink’s potential policies greatly outweighs Rep. Chau’s lack of campaign finance pledges. According to our analysis, Rep. Edwin Chau is the strongest choice for equitable and representative leadership in office.
Re-elect State Assemblymember Edwin Chau to keep AD-49 on the right track.
About the Position
State Assembly Members form part of the California State Legislature, and work alongside the governor to establish laws and a state budget. They hold the power to pass bills that affect public policy, set state spending levels, raise and lower taxes, and uphold or override the governor’s vetoes. The California State Assembly has 80 districts. Each represents a population of at least 465,000 Californians. Representatives are elected to the Assembly for a two-year term. Every two years, all 80 seats are subject to election. Members elected before 2012 are restricted to three two-year terms (six years) in the Assembly. Those elected in or after 2012 are allowed to serve 12 years total across both the State Senate and Assembly. This term, Democrats currently hold a two-thirds supermajority of 61 seats in the California State Assembly, while Republicans hold 17 seats. One seat is held by an Independent, and one seat is currently vacant.
About the District
California's 49th Assembly District includes parts of Los Angeles County. Democrats typically hold this district. The most recent election results show AD-49 voted for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and Gavin Newsom for governor in 2018.
About the Race
In the primary, Democrat incumbent Representative Edwin Chau led Republican challenger Burton Brink by a margin of 27.4 percent. Chau’s campaign has raised $243,884 and has not committed to any campaign finance pledges. Brink’s campaign has raised $24,886 and received over 50 percent of those funds from the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Association, Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, and Arcadia Police Officers Association.
About the Candidate
Rep. Edwin Chau, a former lawyer and Montebello School Board member, is from Hong Kong and grew up in Los Angeles. According to campaign materials, Rep. Chau is running for re-election to continue his fight for internet privacy protections, improve the San Gabriel Valley’s groundwater sources, and address the affordable housing crisis.
Rep. Edwin Chau’s accomplishments in AD-49 include increasing public school funding, lowering class sizes, passing extensive consumer privacy protections, and making drone surveillance an invasion of privacy. He currently sits on five committees: the Appropriations, Economic Development, Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Privacy and Consumer Protections Committees. Rep. Chau has sponsored 221 bills on such topics as worker compensation for those infected with COVID-19, regulating drone usage for package delivery, and cybersecurity analysis of public school districts this year, of which over 10 percent have successfully passed. He scores a lifetime 92 out of 100 on Courage Score, our annual analysis of legislators’ progressive voting records. Based on our Courage Score analysis, Rep. Chau has supported nearly all progressive bills that made it to a vote. That said, Rep. Chau has not supported repealing sentencing enhancements for those with prior offenses or preventing dialysis companies from redirecting their patients away from Medi-Cal.
Prior to his election to the State Assembly, Rep. Edwin Chau worked as a programmer for IBM, operated his own law office, and served on the Montebello Unified School District board for twelve years, acting as president three times. He has served as AD-49’s assemblymember since 2012 and is a longtime supporter of data security and privacy protections for everyday internet users.
Rep. Edwin Chau is endorsed by many progressive groups in the district. He has previously taken money from the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and California Association of Highway Patrolmen. However, the threat of Republican challenger and strong Trump supporter Burton Brink’s potential policies greatly outweighs Rep. Chau’s lack of campaign finance pledges. According to our analysis, Rep. Edwin Chau is the strongest choice for equitable and representative leadership in office.
Edwin Chau
Re-elect State Assemblymember Edwin Chau to keep AD-49 on the right track.
About the Position
State Assembly Members form part of the California State Legislature, and work alongside the governor to establish laws and a state budget. They hold the power to pass bills that affect public policy, set state spending levels, raise and lower taxes, and uphold or override the governor’s vetoes. The California State Assembly has 80 districts. Each represents a population of at least 465,000 Californians. Representatives are elected to the Assembly for a two-year term. Every two years, all 80 seats are subject to election. Members elected before 2012 are restricted to three two-year terms (six years) in the Assembly. Those elected in or after 2012 are allowed to serve 12 years total across both the State Senate and Assembly. This term, Democrats currently hold a two-thirds supermajority of 61 seats in the California State Assembly, while Republicans hold 17 seats. One seat is held by an Independent, and one seat is currently vacant.
About the District
California's 49th Assembly District includes parts of Los Angeles County. Democrats typically hold this district. The most recent election results show AD-49 voted for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and Gavin Newsom for governor in 2018.
About the Race
In the primary, Democrat incumbent Representative Edwin Chau led Republican challenger Burton Brink by a margin of 27.4 percent. Chau’s campaign has raised $243,884 and has not committed to any campaign finance pledges. Brink’s campaign has raised $24,886 and received over 50 percent of those funds from the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Association, Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, and Arcadia Police Officers Association.
About the Candidate
Rep. Edwin Chau, a former lawyer and Montebello School Board member, is from Hong Kong and grew up in Los Angeles. According to campaign materials, Rep. Chau is running for re-election to continue his fight for internet privacy protections, improve the San Gabriel Valley’s groundwater sources, and address the affordable housing crisis.
Rep. Edwin Chau’s accomplishments in AD-49 include increasing public school funding, lowering class sizes, passing extensive consumer privacy protections, and making drone surveillance an invasion of privacy. He currently sits on five committees: the Appropriations, Economic Development, Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Privacy and Consumer Protections Committees. Rep. Chau has sponsored 221 bills on such topics as worker compensation for those infected with COVID-19, regulating drone usage for package delivery, and cybersecurity analysis of public school districts this year, of which over 10 percent have successfully passed. He scores a lifetime 92 out of 100 on Courage Score, our annual analysis of legislators’ progressive voting records. Based on our Courage Score analysis, Rep. Chau has supported nearly all progressive bills that made it to a vote. That said, Rep. Chau has not supported repealing sentencing enhancements for those with prior offenses or preventing dialysis companies from redirecting their patients away from Medi-Cal.
Prior to his election to the State Assembly, Rep. Edwin Chau worked as a programmer for IBM, operated his own law office, and served on the Montebello Unified School District board for twelve years, acting as president three times. He has served as AD-49’s assemblymember since 2012 and is a longtime supporter of data security and privacy protections for everyday internet users.
Rep. Edwin Chau is endorsed by many progressive groups in the district. He has previously taken money from the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and California Association of Highway Patrolmen. However, the threat of Republican challenger and strong Trump supporter Burton Brink’s potential policies greatly outweighs Rep. Chau’s lack of campaign finance pledges. According to our analysis, Rep. Edwin Chau is the strongest choice for equitable and representative leadership in office.
Charné Tunson
Elect Charné Tunson to make the Los Angeles Community College District Board more reflective of its highly diverse student population.
About the Position
Members of the Los Angeles Community College District Board are elected at large for terms of four years. Elections are held every two years, with three members being chosen at one election and four members at the other.\
About the District
The Los Angeles Community College District is located in Los Angeles County and includes nine colleges, serving a population of roughly 240,000 Californians.
About the Candidate
Charné Tunson, a former Crenshaw High School teacher, is running as part of a coalition called Justice 4 LACCD, a coalition of four Black women seeking to diversify the board to reflect the 74 percent POC and 56 percent women student population it serves. Tunson and Justice 4 LACCD are running on the shared values of what they call “The 4 R’s,” which are defined on their website as the following:
- “Representation – We are a united group of women who will make up a Board of Trustees that truly reflects and speaks on behalf of the LACCD community it serves.
- Recruitment and Retention – Creating policy to attract, retain and support more students and faculty that are under-represented. This includes more women, students and faculty of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community and those with disabilities.
- Reform – Designate a committee to investigate police policy and response on LACCD campuses.
- Response to COVID-19 – Position our Community Colleges to lead in creating an equitable COVID strategy that prioritizes the needs of the most impacted members of our community.”
Furthermore, the coalition promises to fight for the rights of part-time, disabled, and unhoused students, as well as those with health conditions that prevent them from regularly accessing a college campus.
In addition to teaching at Crenshaw High School, her alma mater, Charné Tunson recently founded the Tunson Leadership Foundation, aiming to impart the importance of community engagement and mentorship within local communities.
According to our analysis, Charné Tunson and the Justice 4 LACCD coalition will provide leadership that promotes the shared interests of communities historically excluded from the policymaking process.
Two candidates in this district offer the chance to make LACC more reflective of its highly diverse student population, Dr. Nichet James-Gray and Nichelle M. Henderson.
About the Position
Members of the Los Angeles Community College District Board are elected at large for terms of four years. Elections are held every two years, with three members being chosen at one election and four members at the other.
About the District
The Los Angeles Community College District is located in Los Angeles County and includes nine colleges, serving a population of roughly 240,000 Californians.