Voters in the California\u2019s 67th Assembly District don\u2019t have to think very hard about who to represent them.<\/p>\n
The district, currently represented by Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, spans portions of Los Angeles County and Orange County, and includes the cities of Anaheim, Cerritos and Fullerton. With Quirk-Silva term-limited, it\u2019s an open seat with only one serious candidate running.<\/p>\n
Born and raised in Cerritos, Mark Pulido and has served in various in public service roles in and around the community going back decades. Currently a member of the Cerritos City Council, he previously served on the ABC Unified School District from 2001 to 2011. He has also worked as a staffer or consultant to lawmakers in the Legislature and worked as deputy chief of staff for former Representative Alan Lowenthal.<\/p>\n
\u201cLife is short and I want to give back,\u201d he told us. A Filipino-American, Pulido\u2019s father worked as an engineer for CalTrans before becoming a successful real estate broker. This background no doubt laid a foundation for Pulido\u2019s pro-housing bent, with an eye toward supply side solutions. While he notes the importance of being respectful of community input, he ultimately recognizes the need for pro-housing policies like Senate Bill 79 to break the logjam and get more housing built.<\/p>\n
While are sure to disagree with him on many issues, he at least gave a nod to the importance of having a \u201cstrong and vibrant business community\u201d and casts himself as a \u201cpragmatic problem solver willing to listen.\u201d It\u2019s that positioning that helped him eke out a primary win over fellow Democrat Ada Brice\u00f1o, who is best known as a leader of the odious Unite Here Local 11. We appreciate Pulido sparing the Legislature, and by extension all of the California, the bad bills that would\u2019ve come from an Assemblymember Brice\u00f1o.<\/p>\n
By contrast, we have no idea, really, what his Republican opponent Paulo Morales thinks. He ignored multiple invitations from the editorial board. He is a former mayor and councilman in the city of Cypress, and his endorsement list consists solely<\/a> of endorsements from his colleagues there. What we do know is that Cerritos is in better fiscal shape than Cypress, based on California Policy Center\u2019s Local Fiscal Health Dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is an easy call. Vote for Mark Pulido in the 67th Assembly District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in the California\u2019s 67th Assembly District don\u2019t have to think very hard about who to represent them.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[183538,163,165,164,1965,9198,975],"class_list":["post-491237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-2026-california-legislature-endorsements","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-editorials","tag-endorsements","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}