Incumbent Richard Roth (D-Riverside) has won a seat on the California senate as a representative of Riverside County’s 31st District, with a victory over Richard Brent Reed (R-Riverside).
As part of his campaign to
improve California’s access to physicians, Roth has fought to get UC Riverside its school of medicine and also assisted in the push to bring the Air Resources...
The incumbent for the 41st District Mark Takano has been re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Takano, a Democrat, won over challenger Doug Shepherd, a Republican.
Takano was originally elected in 2012 to the district that represents Riverside, Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley and Perris.
Takano was a teacher in public schools for 20 years and, during his time in Congress,...
The three-time incumbent of the 61st District of California Jose Medina was re-elected to the California Assembly. He defeated challenger Hector Diaz (R- Moreno Valley).
Medina was initially elected to the Assembly in 2012 in the district that represents Riverside, Perris, Highgrove, and Moreno Valley.
In his first term as an assemblyman, Medina championed the effort to earmark $15 million of continuous...
California voters made a historic vote on Tuesday, electing the state’s first new U.S. senator in 24 years and the first black politician to represent the state in the senate in electing State Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris to the U.S. senate.
Harris, the former San Francisco Attorney General from 2004-2011, won the seat over challenger Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Orange).
Harris hails...
Every elections cycle, media coverage tends to work out the same way: As the election year looms, elections discourse begins to trickle into the news. Then, as the primaries and caucuses hit full swing and the election is under way, media coverage becomes completely oversaturated with campaign rhetoric, talking points and pundit analysis. While elections are important, and deserve...