Heather Fargo is an American politician who served as mayor and was a former City Council Member of Sacramento,California. She was sworn in as mayor in November 2000,replacing Jimmie R. Yee,and served until December 2008,when she was defeated for reelection by Kevin Johnson.
Chula Vista is a city in San Diego County,California,United States. It is also the second-largest city in the San Diego metropolitan area,the seventh largest city in Southern California,the fifteenth largest city in the state of California,and the 78th-largest city in the United States. The population was 275,487 as of the 2020 census,up from 243,916 as of the 2010 census. Located about halfway—7.5 miles (12.1 km)—between the two downtowns of San Diego and Tijuana in the South Bay,the city is at the center of one of the richest culturally diverse zones in the United States. Chula Vista is so named because of its scenic location between the San Diego Bay and coastal mountain foothills.
Shirley Grasser Horton is a Japanese–American politician who served as the 37th mayor of Chula Vista,California,and in the California State Assembly as a member of the Republican Party.
Brian Phillip Bilbray is an American Republican politician who represented parts of San Diego County in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001 and again from 2006 to 2013.
Mary Casillas Salas is an American politician from Chula Vista,California. She is a former California Assembly member who represented the 79th Assembly District from 2006 to 2010. She ran for the California State Senate in 2010 but lost. In 2012 she was elected to the Chula Vista City Council,a position she previously held from 1996 to 2004. She was elected Mayor of the city of Chula Vista in 2014.
The Chula Vista Bayfront is a planned development on the San Diego Bay waterfront within Chula Vista,California,United States. The bayfront is undergoing major development under the project title Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan,one of the largest waterfront planning efforts in the United States.
Bonnie Michelle Dumanis was the District Attorney of San Diego County,California. She held the office 2003 to 2017. Dumanis is a Republican,though the office she held was officially nonpartisan. She was the first openly gay or lesbian DA in the country. She was the first woman and the first Jewish District Attorney in San Diego.
Stephen C. Padilla is an American politician,public policy,advocacy and communications consultant serving in the California State Senate since 2022. From 1994 to 2002,he served two terms on the city council of Chula Vista,California. He served as Mayor of Chula Vista from 2002 to 2006 and as a member of the California Coastal Commission from 2005 to 2007,and again since 2017. He served as a member of the Board of Port Commissioners of the Unified Port of San Diego,as Board Secretary and Vice Chairman-Elect from 2009 to 2011. In 2016,he was again elected to the Chula Vista City Council.
Benjamin Hueso is an American businessman and politician who served in the California State Senate. A Democrat,he represented the 40th Senate District,which encompassed Imperial County and the border regions of San Diego County.
David Alvarez is an American politician who is a member of the California State Assembly from the 80th district,which includes Chula Vista,National City,and parts of southern San Diego. A member of the Democratic Party,Alvarez previously served as a member of the San Diego City Council from the 8th district from 2010 to 2018 and was the Democratic nominee in the 2013–2014 San Diego mayoral special election.
The 2012 San Diego mayoral election was held on Tuesday,November 6,2012,to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent mayor Jerry Sanders was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election.
The Vogue Theater is a historic movie theater in downtown Chula Vista,California. It was designed by the architect Frank Hope Jr. in 1943,and opened on January 19,1945. The theater is a poured in place concrete building and seats 825. Due to its configuration and stage,the theater has been a venue for several Chula Vista and San Diego political debates by the likes of former San Diego City Mayor Roger Hedgecock,and current Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox.
Shirley Weber is an American academic and politician serving as the secretary of state of California. She was previously a member of the California State Assembly for the 79th Assembly District,which includes portions of San Diego,Chula Vista,and National City and all of Lemon Grove and La Mesa.
The 2013–2014 San Diego mayoral special election was a special election to elect the Mayor of San Diego. The election was made necessary by the resignation of Bob Filner on August 30,2013. The winner stood to serve out the balance of Filner's term,which ended in 2016.
Greg Cox is an American politician and businessman from San Diego,California. He served as a member of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors for District 1 from 1995-2020. He is a member of the Republican Party,but has also been endorsed by prominent local Democratic politicians. He was not eligible to run in the 2020 election due to term limits. He was succeeded by Democrat Nora Vargas.
The 2020 San Diego mayoral election was held on November 3,2020,to elect the Mayor of San Diego. Incumbent Kevin Faulconer was ineligible to run for a third term due to term limits.
The 2022 California State Senate election was held on Tuesday,November 8,with the primary election having been held on Thursday,June 7. Voters in the 20 even-numbered districts of the California State Senate elected their representatives. The elections coincided with elections for other offices,including the state assembly.
Racquel Vasquez (1969/1970) is the mayor of the city of Lemon Grove,the first African-American woman elected mayor in San Diego County.
Elections are currently held every four years to elect the mayor of Chula Vista,California.
