San Marcos is a city in the North County region of San Diego County,California. As of the 2020 census,the city's population was 94,833. It is the site of California State University San Marcos and Palomar College. The city is bordered by Escondido to the east,Encinitas to the southwest,Carlsbad to the west,and Vista to the northwest. Lake San Marcos is an enclave,or county island,in the southwestern part of the city,within San Marcos' sphere of influence but technically an unincorporated community.
Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician and businessman who has been the 40th governor of California since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Lori R. Saldaña is an American politician from San Diego,California. She is a former member of the California State Assembly from the 76th Assembly district. She served from 2004 to 2010,when term limits prevented her from seeking re-election. She served as a Democrat.
Toni Gayle Atkins is an American politician serving as the 51st and current President pro tempore of the California State Senate since 2018. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served as the 69th Speaker of the California State Assembly from 2014 to 2016. She has represented the 39th State Senate district since 2016,encompassing most of San Diego.
Cindy Chavez is an American politician who serves as the Santa Clara County supervisor representing district two,which is home to nearly 400,000 residents in Downtown,East,and South San Jose. Her public service career began in the 1990s as a policy analyst for health care,public health,human services and transportation for the Board of Supervisors. She served two terms on the San Jose City Council,where she was also Vice Mayor,and also served on the board leadership of public agencies such as the San Jose Redevelopment Agency,and executive director of Working Partnerships USA and the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. She has unsuccessfully run for Mayor of San Jose twice. She is a graduate of San Jose State University,is married and has a son in college.
Guy Spencer Houston is an American politician and real estate executive who served as a member of the California State Assembly from the 15th district from 2002 to 2008. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Scott Harvey Peters is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative from California's 50th congressional district since 2023,previously representing the 52nd congressional district from 2013 to 2023. His district includes both coastal and central portions of San Diego,as well as the suburbs of Poway and Coronado.
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.
David Campos,is a politician who is Vice Chair of the California Democratic Party. In 2008 he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,where he represented San Francisco's District 9 until 2016 when he termed out. During his tenure,Campos sought to prohibit the construction of market-rate housing in his district.
Dennis Herrera is an American attorney,currently serving as Public Utilities Commission general manager for San Francisco. Herrera was previously City Attorney of San Francisco,known for his longtime legal advocacy for same-sex marriage in California,including the In re Marriage Cases,43 Cal.4th 757 (2008),and Hollingsworth v. Perry,570. U.S. (2013),as well as the legal fight against Proposition 8. He was first elected as City Attorney in 2001,and re-elected without opposition in 2005,2009,2013,2015 and 2019. He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of San Francisco in the 2011 election,finishing third in the City's ranked-choice voting system. After his long-standing position as City Attorney,he was unanimously approved in 2021 to become the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
Todd Rex Gloria is an American politician serving as the 37th and current mayor of San Diego since 2020. As mayor,he is the chief executive officer in the city of San Diego. A member of the Democratic Party,he is the first person of color and the first openly gay person to serve as San Diego's mayor.
Kevin Lee Faulconer is an American politician who served as the 36th mayor of San Diego,California from 2014 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party,Faulconer served as the member of the San Diego City Council for the 2nd district from 2006 to 2014.
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.
Steve Vaus is an American recording artist and politician who was elected mayor of Poway,California in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. In 2020,he ran for a position on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors,losing narrowly to Joel Anderson.
Golden Hall is a 3,200-seat indoor arena in San Diego,California,built in 1964. Golden Hall is located within the San Diego Concourse complex at 1 Civic Center Plz San Diego,CA 92101 and is primarily utilized as a homeless shelter today.
Patricia "Pat" Carmody Bates is an American Republican politician who served in the California State Senate,representing the 36th Senate district,which encompasses parts of Orange and San Diego counties. She left office on December 5,2022. She served as the Senate's minority leader from 2017 to 2019. She previously served as a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors from 2007 to 2014,and the California State Assembly from 1998 to 2004. She also served as the first mayor of Laguna Niguel,California following its incorporation in 1989,and continued to serve on the city council until 1998. Before serving as mayor,she had been employed as a social worker in Los Angeles County.
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 2018 California Superintendent of Public Instruction primary election was held on June 5,2018,to elect the Superintendent of Public Instruction of California. Unlike most other elections in California,the superintendent is not elected under the state's "top-two primary". Instead,the officially nonpartisan position is elected via a general election,with a runoff held on November 6,2018,because no candidate received a majority of the vote.
R. Rex Parris is an American attorney and the current mayor of Lancaster,California.
The ReAwaken America Tour is an American far-right and Christian nationalist movement launched in 2021 by Oklahoma entrepreneur Clay Clark and former Donald Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn. Its rallies have promoted a variety of right-wing and far-right conspiracy theories,including COVID-19 misinformation,election denialism,QAnon and doomsday prophecies.
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