No Recommendation
Based on our analysis, there is no progressive candidate to recommend for your vote in this race.
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 67th Assembly District includes parts of Riverside County. Republicans typically hold this district. The most recent election results show AD-67 voted for Donald Trump for president in 2016, and John H. Cox for governor in 2018.
About the Race
In the primary, Democratic challenger Jerry Carlos led Republican challenger Kelly Seyarto by a margin of 8 percent. However, this lead was due to a crowded Republican field and is almost certain to disappear in the general election, as Republicans totaled 74.6 percent of primary voters in this district. Carlos’s campaign has raised $1,325 and has not committed to any campaign finance pledges. Seyarto’s campaign has raised $89,430 and has also not committed to any campaign finance pledges.
About the Candidate
Jerry Carlos is a Riverside deputy sheriff, former National Guard and Army Reserve military police officer, and founder of the Riverside Community College Police Department, having served as its first chief. His website lists no policy goals, and his campaign Facebook page has only three posts made during this election cycle. With Carlos’s problematic history in law enforcement and near total lack of fundraising efforts and engagement with the electorate, we cannot recommend him for your vote.
Keep reading for progressive recommendations in other key races and on ballot measures where your vote can make a critical difference.
No Progressive Candidate - AD67
Based on our analysis, there is no progressive candidate to recommend for your vote in this race.
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 67th Assembly District includes parts of Riverside County. Republicans typically hold this district. The most recent election results show AD-67 voted for Donald Trump for president in 2016, and John H. Cox for governor in 2018.
About the Race
In the primary, Democratic challenger Jerry Carlos led Republican challenger Kelly Seyarto by a margin of 8 percent. However, this lead was due to a crowded Republican field and is almost certain to disappear in the general election, as Republicans totaled 74.6 percent of primary voters in this district. Carlos’s campaign has raised $1,325 and has not committed to any campaign finance pledges. Seyarto’s campaign has raised $89,430 and has also not committed to any campaign finance pledges.
About the Candidate
Jerry Carlos is a Riverside deputy sheriff, former National Guard and Army Reserve military police officer, and founder of the Riverside Community College Police Department, having served as its first chief. His website lists no policy goals, and his campaign Facebook page has only three posts made during this election cycle. With Carlos’s problematic history in law enforcement and near total lack of fundraising efforts and engagement with the electorate, we cannot recommend him for your vote.
Keep reading for progressive recommendations in other key races and on ballot measures where your vote can make a critical difference.
There are two candidates for this seat. Courage California does not have enough information to recommend one over the others in this race and other progressive organizations are split on their endorsements, so we have compiled basic biographical information for your reference. The two candidates for this position have distinct visions for Los Angeles County. Challenger David Berger promises to prioritize juvenile justice reform and drug offender rehabilitation. Challenger Klint James McKay promises to promote fairness and impartiality in the court, and resolve disputes with competence and empathy.
About the Position
Judges of the California Superior Courts are elected in nonpartisan, county-wide elections to six-year terms. Once voted in, a judge can run for retention at the expiration of their term. A retention election is a process by which voters decide whether an incumbent judge should remain for another term. If the judge, when not facing an opponent, does not obtain a certain percentage of voters (often 50 percent), they are removed from the position. Many judges join the court through a gubernatorial appointment. Once a judge is appointed, they compete in the next general election following the appointment.
California has 58 trial courts, or superior courts, one in each county. In the more than 450 courthouses of the superior courts, a judge and sometimes a jury hears witness testimony and other evidence. These courts hear civil, criminal, family, probate, small claims, traffic, and juvenile cases. The judge decides cases through the application of relevant law to the relevant facts.
About the Jurisdiction
The Superior Court of Los Angeles comprises the appellate, civil, criminal, family law, juvenile, mental health, probate, small claims, and traffic courts. The court system sees 2.7 million new cases per year. As of 2016, Los Angeles County’s incarceration rate was 609 per 100,000 adults aged 18–69, higher than California’s overall 486 per 100,000 average.
About the Race
In the primary, challenger David A. Berger led challenger Klint James McKay by a margin of 7.4 percent. Berger’s campaign has raised $105,396.11 and is 47 percent self-funded, with the rest primarily made by individual donors. Berger’s campaign has received contributions from the Los Angeles Police Protective League and Govern For California (GFC), a donor network led by Stanford professor David Crane, who lost his position on the UC Board of Regents after criticizing the value of collective bargaining rights for California's teachers, nurses, firefighters, university employees, and other public sector workers. Berger’s campaign has not signed on to any pledges to avoid money from fossil fuels, police unions, or corporate PACs, and has not received funding from these sources. McKay’s campaign has not filed any public reports with the California Secretary of State and has not signed on to any pledges to avoid money from fossil fuels or police unions.