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Fil-Am advances to November polls for CA state assembly

Fil-Am Jessica Caloza thanks her supporters as she heads to the November polls for California's 52nd assembly district.

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Steve Angeles

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<div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gzhtZb9Yio8?&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>Vote counting in Los Angeles county has concluded a month since the primary elections – with Filipino-American Jessica Caloza emerging as the lead candidate for the state&#x27;s 52 assembly district.</p><p>Caloza, a community leader, is the current deputy chief of staff of California&#x27;s Fil-Am Attorney General Rob Bonta.</p><p>She picked up 23,391 of the votes, nearly three thousand more than second place finisher Francisco Franky Carrillo with 20,569 votes.</p><p>Carrillo had spent some 20 years in prison on a wrongful conviction for murder. The exoneree – whose conviction was reversed in 2011 – now sits on the probation oversight commission.</p><div><a data-ved="2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly&amp;ved=2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" style="color:rgb(26, 13, 171);text-decoration:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" id="isPasted"></a><a data-ved="2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly" id="isPasted" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly&amp;ved=2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" style="color:rgb(26, 13, 171);text-decoration:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Fil-Am Jessica Caloza to run for California state assembly</a></div><div style="line-height:1.3;padding:0px;display:inline-block;text-size-adjust:none;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;width:600px"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly" data-ved="2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly&amp;ved=2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" style="color:rgb(26, 13, 171);text-decoration:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"></a><div style="display:flex;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;align-items:center"><a data-ved="2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly&amp;ved=2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" style="color:rgb(26, 13, 171);text-decoration:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin-right:12px"></span></a><div style="vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly" data-ved="2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/10/23/fil-am-to-run-for-california-state-assembly&amp;ved=2ahUKEwilu-O7_K2FAxWoWGwGHeuoBi8QFnoECBoQAQ" style="color:rgb(26, 13, 171);text-decoration:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"></a><br/></div><br/></div></div><p>He will face off against Caloza for the state assembly seat in the November general election.</p><p>Caloza has thanked supporters and volunteers who helped her win the primary election.</p><p>&quot;Because of their support we were able to make history,&quot; she said.</p><p>If elected, Caloza would be the first Filipino woman in the state assembly, and third Filipino overall.</p><p>The longtime community leader believes the next eight months will not only be about her campaign, but will also be an effort to get more Filipinos to turn out and vote.</p><p>&quot;We built an incredibly diverse coalition of all people of all ages, all backgrounds, to really power our campaign,&quot; Caloza said.</p><p>She added: &quot;[I&#x27;m] so proud of our grassroots efforts, whether it was building coalitions among labor and business, young people, seniors, people of all backgrounds.&quot;</p><p>Just over 1.6 million ballots were cast during the primaries, which represent nearly 29 percent of eligible voters in Los Angeles county.</p><p>Caloza hopes that voter turnout, especially among FilAms in the 52nd district, would be higher come November.</p><p>&quot;There are 13,000 Filipino voters in this district and we need to make sure we get out the vote and start early,&quot; she added.</p><p>Since the primary elections, Caloza – Los Angeles’ former Public Works commissioner – has continued to be in the community, joining events as well as panels.</p><p>She also continues to share her platforms when it comes to women’s rights, working families, public schools, and on addressing gun violence.</p>

<p>Fil-Am Jessica Caloza thanks her supporters as she heads to the November polls for California's 52nd assembly district.</p>

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Fil-Am Jessica Caloza advances to November polls for CA state assembly

Steve Angeles,

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Published Apr 07, 2024 12:09 AM PHT

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