State & Federal Representation

8th District: Senator Andreas Borgeas, Republican

• Family man and educator
• Worked as a Fulbright Scholar, Contributing Fellow for the Woodrow Wilson Center, Policy Specialist Fellow at the US Embassy in Kazakhstan and as Commissioner on the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
• PhD from Georgetown Law School, Harvard University
• Practiced international law at Luce Forward for over a decade
• Professor in the fields of international law and security affairs at the San Joaquin College of Law in Clovis
• Adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey
• Previously held positions of Fresno Councilman and member of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors
• Married, two boys
• Deeply involved in the local Greek and Armenian communities
• Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee
• Vice-Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Member of Governmental Organization; Energy, Utilities and Communications; Insurance; Joint Legislative Audit; Pandemic Emergency Response; Cybersecurity and Identity Theft Prevention; California, Armenia & Artsakh Mutual Trade, Art & Cultural Exchange; and California’s Wine Industry

Contact:

Capitol Office: (916) 651-4008

Fresno Office: (559) 243-8580

Oakdale Office: (209) 848-8001

Sutter Creek Office: (209) 267-5033

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16th District: Senator Shannon Grove, Republican

• Born and raised in Kern County
• Served in the United States Army, Stationed at Frankfurt, Germany in 1989
• Established a staffing company (Continental Labor and Staffing Resources) with her sister-in-law 
• Current CEO of the company
• First veteran woman elected in 2010  (34th assembly district)
• Re-elected to 16th district in in 2018
• Elected Leader of the Senate Republican Caucus in January 2019
• Strong supporter of law enforcement, keeping students in school, encouraging small businesses with fair, not punitive, regulation, and supporting critically important agriculture and energy production
• Resides in Bakersfield with her husband Rick
• Has 5 children
• Member of Canyon Hills Church in Bakersfield
• Seeking election to the newly-drawn 12th district in November 2022

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Contact:

Capitol Office: (916) 651-4016

Bakersfield Office: (661) 323-0443

Yucca Valley Office: (760) 228-3136

Campaign Hotline: (661) 377-0410

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District 14: Senator Melissa Hurtado, Democrat

• Youngest woman ever elected to the senate
• First graduate from college in her family
• Attended Sacramento State University (Pol. Science)
• Served on Sanger City Council (2016)
• Politics focused on rural communities, especially their access to clean air and water, food insecurity, inequities in environmental policies, agriculture and access to health care in rural communities
• Appointed to the national Biden Latino Leadership Committee in 2020
• Selected to serve as a subcommittee co-chair on the Council of State Governments 2021-22 Healthy States National Task Force
• Chairwoman, Select Committee on Human Security
• Sits on Business Professions and Economic Development Committee, Health Committee, and Insurance Committee

Contact: 

Capitol Office: (916) 651-4014

Fresno Office: (559) 264-3070

Hanford Office: (559) 585-7161    

Bakersfield Office: (661) 395-2620

District 21: Congressman David G. Valado, Republican

• Born and raised in Hanford, California
• Lifelong resident of the Central Valley
• Active in local agriculture, dairy industry, and local charity groups
• Family business owns 1,000 acres of farmland in Kings and Western Tulare County
• Graduated from Hanford High School
• Attended College of Sequoias 
• Married, three children
• Elected in 2010 to represent 30th State Assembly District
• Elected in 2012 to represent California’s 21st Congressional District
• Reelected in 2014, 2016, and 2020
• Politics focused on agriculture and water policy

Contact:

Washington Office: (202) 225-4695

Bakersfield District Office: (661) 864-7736

Hanford District Office: (559) 460-6070

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District 22: Congresswoman Connie Conway, Republican

• Lifelong San Joaquin Valley resident
• Businesswoman, healthcare worker
• Previously Tulare County Supervisor, and President of the California State Association of Counties, and Director of the National Association of Counties.
• Appointed as the California Executive Director of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency in 2019
• Led the nation's largest Farm Service Agency by administering more than $100 million in safety net and disaster relief programs serving California farmers, ranchers, foresters, and agricultural producers
• Served as Republican Leader in the California Assembly

Contact:

Washington Office: (202) 225-2523

Visalia District Office: (559) 733-3861

Clovis District Office: (559) 323-5235

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District 23: Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Republican

• First elected to Congress in 2006
• Native of Bakersfield and fourth-generation Kern County resident
• Grandson of a rancher and son of a firefighter
• Graduate from California State University
• Elected as Trustee to the Kern Community College District in 2000
• First elected to California State Assembly in 2002, served as Assembly Republican Leader
• Politics focused on small businesses

Contact:

Washington Office: (202) 225-2915

Bakersfield Office: (661) 327-3611

Mike Bost, Republican Party

Washington Office: (202) 225-5661

O’Fallen Office: (618) 622-0766

Carbondale Office: (618) 457-5787

• Lifelong resident of Murphysboro
• Graduated from Murphysboro High School in 1979
• Veteran (Marine Corps 1979-1982)
• Worked at Bost Trucking Service for 13 years
• Graduated from the University of Illinois’ Certified Firefighter II Academy
• First responder (Murphysboro Fire Department)
• First elected in 2015
• Serves on Veterans’ Affairs, and Transportation & Infrastructure Committees
•  Married, owns and operates a small business
• Three children, eleven grandchildren

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat

• First elected to the senate in 1992
• Led bipartisan group to pass legislation to increase fuel efficiency of cars
• Focused on preservation of Lake Tahoe, California’s forests, and Mojave desert as well as preventing wildfires and improving California’s water infrastructure
• Helped in creation of the AMBER Alert network
• Advocate of common sense gun laws
• The first woman to become the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017

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Contact:

Washington office (202) 224-3841

San Francisco office (415) 393-0707

Los Angeles office (310) 914-7300

San Diego office (619) 231-9712

Fresno office (559) 485-7430

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Sen. Alex Padilla, Democrat

• Son of Mexican immigrants
• Born and raised in the San Francisco Valley
• Graduated as a mechanical engineer from MIT
• Entered into politics to counter the rising anti-immigrant surge in California politics
• Joined protests against California’s Proposition 187 in 1994
• Served as a field representative for Sen. Dianne Feinstein
• Elected as the youngest president of the city council in 2001
• Elected to California State Senate in 2006 for two terms
• Became the first latino to be elected as the California Secretary of State in 2014
• Appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy of Vice President Kamala Harris 
• Helped in expanding and modernizing renewable energy and climate policies, and expanding the electrical grid
• Member of Senate Committees on Budget; Environment and Public Works; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Judiciary; and Rules

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Contact:

Washington office (202) 224-3553

San Francisco (415) 981-9369

Los Angeles (310) 231-4494

San Diego (619) 239-3884

Sacramento (916) 448-2787

Fresno (559) 497-5109