Fresno County Supervisor Brian Pacheco made it official on Tuesday, launching his campaign for the California Assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pacheco, a Democrat, is running for the open 27th District 27, which will be vacated by Asm. Esmeralda (D\u2013Fresno) as she runs for State Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Driving the news: A dairy farmer by trade, Pacheco was first elected to the Fresno County Board of Supervisors in 2014, where he has represented northwestern Fresno county.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He enters the race with the support of Soria, who announced that she is endorsing him as her successor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
State of the race: Pacheco faces a singularly-declared opponent for the 27th District race: former Merced Mayor Mike Murphy<\/p>\n
Over the summer, Merced City school board member Priya Lakireddy, a fellow Democrat, suspended her bid for the seat. <\/p>\n
That decision gave way for Madera County Supervisor Leticia Gonzalez to enter the race for the seat. She dropped her bid on Monday.<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re saying: \u201cThroughout my time as County Supervisor, I\u2019ve worked every day to make life easier and more affordable for the people I serve,\u201d Pacheco said. \u201cI\u2019m ready to bring that on-the-ground experience to the State Assembly to deliver affordability, public safety, clean reliable water and healthcare access for families in Fresno, Madera and Merced counties.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Soria said, \u201cBrian\u2019s deep roots as a 4th generation dairy farmer mean he understands our community and the unique challenges we face. He is ready on day one to effectively serve the Central Valley in the Assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pacheco also has the support of Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D\u2013Hollister), who called Pacheco a tested and proven leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHis energy, experience and pragmatism will serve AD 27 incredibly well and I\u2019m proud to endorse him for Assembly,\u201d Rivas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno County Supervisor Brian Pacheco made it official on Tuesday, launching his campaign for the California Assembly.\u00a0 Pacheco,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,7999],"class_list":["post-89113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-highlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89113","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=89113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}