Alameda County Republican Party

Rev. 11/27/2023 1pm - MARCH 5 PRIMARY ELECTION (Races and Endorsements)

The County will begin mailing ballots by February 5, 2024

This Primary Election elects Republicans for our Central Committee for Alameda County for 4 years (Seated in the January 2025 Organizational Meeting).    But first, here is the PROP 1 measure authorized for the ballot (The prior three constitutional amendments were moved to the November election.)

The Bylaws amended on 10/18/2023 allow us to endorse candidates for the PRIMARY ELECTION.  An ENDORSEMENT Meeting sought via a 2/3rds vote to endorse a specific candidate for PRIMARY ELECTION offices.   The word ENDORSED appears after a candidate's name whenever an endorsement occurs.   Please research and wisely choose the best among the Republican candidates.  

This page lists those Republicans who have started their filing process and campaign.  Check each candidate's website or social media to read about their individual platforms.  

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CANDIDATE FILINGS KNOWN to the Alameda County ROV and the State SOS (AD and SD only) with Federal Financial Filings (CD and Senate only) and Ballotpedia of Republican Filers for 2024:

Congress - Senate

BASSETT, SHARLETA (R) - Fed
BRADLEY, JAMES (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
EARLY, ERIC (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia - https://ericearly.com/
FABRICANT, DANNY (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
GARCIA, JOSHUA (R) - Fed
GARVEY, STEVE (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
GARY-PANDOL, DENICE LYN (R) - Fed -  Ballotpedia - https://www.denicegarypandol.com/
HAND, JEHU THOMAS DE GEROLD (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
KORTAM, ZAKARIA MOHAMED (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
LAWLER, ROXANNE ELIZABETH (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
LIEW, SARAH DR. (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
MANDELA, BARACK OBAMA (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
PAPPENHEIM, JOHN JOSEPH (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
REISS, JONATHAN (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
SHUSTER, JAMES BARTLEY (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia
SIMCHOWITZ, STEFAN (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia

Congress - House of Representatives

CD10 (Dublin) -

            NOLAN CHEN (R) - nolanchen.com - Fed - Ballotpedia - Contra Costa Co

            JALIS, MUSA (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia

            KATHERINE PICCININI (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia

CD12 (Oakland/San Leandro) -

           JOSEPH DOC GRCAR (R) - Pending AC

            NED NUERGE (R) - AC

            STEPHEN SLAUSON (R) - Pending AC

CD14 (Rest of Alameda County)-

           JOSEPH DOC GRCAR (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia - Pending AC

           ALISON HAYDEN (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia - Pending AC

           STEVE IYER (R) - Fed - Ballotpedia

           VIN KRUTTIVENTI (R) - ENDORSED 11/1/2023 (Also CAGOP) - Fed - Ballotpedia - Declared Candidate 11/15

           LUIS REYNOSO (R) - Fed- Ballotpedia -Pending AC

CD17 (Newark/South Fremont) -

           ANITA CHEN (R) - ENDORSED by CAGOP - Fed - Santa Clara Co

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State Assembly

AD14 (Berkeley) - UTKARSH JAIN (R) - SOS Site - AC - Declared Candidate 11/27

AD16 (I680 Eastward)- JOSEPH RUBAY (R) - SOS Site

AD18 (Oakland/ North San Leandro)- 

           CHEYENNE KENNEY (R) - Spoke to CC on 10/18 - SOS Site - AC

           MINDY PECHENUK (R) - Spoke to CC on 10/18 - SOS Site - AC - Declared Candidate 11/21

AD20 (Hayward/ Union City) -

AD24 (Newark/ Fremont) -

           ROBERT (BOB) BRUNTON (R) - ENDORSED 11/1/2023 (Also CAGOP) - SOS Site - Declared Candidate 11/14

           MARTI SOUZA (R) - AC

State Senate

Even-Number Districts (SD6, SD8, SD10) are not voted this year

SD5 (TriValley thru Tracy) - JAMES (JIM) SHOEMAKER (R)- ENDORSED by CAGOP - shoemaker4Senate.com - SOS Site

SD7 (Oakland/ North San Leandro) - JEANNE SOLNORDAL (R) - Declared Candidate 11/20

SD9 (South San Leandro/ Castro Valley) - 

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Republican Central Committee

If less than seven candidates run per district, ALL in that district who filed/registered at the Registrar of Voters in Oakland are automatically elected (and thus not appearing on the ballot).  If you want to be part of the 30 voting members of the Republican Party at the County Level, file/register to run soon.   There is no cost to run for these 30 seats as long as you get the nominal few Republican signatures in your district.

These are the known candidates seeking signatures in lieu of filing fee.   If you are in their district, they might need a signature from you!   None of these 30 Central Committee seats are allowed to be endorsed by the Central Committee.   While listed, they may still have to complete their filing.  Sooooo, help them by signing their nomination forms.

AD14 - DAVID DURHAM - Pending

           MARIANNE HAAS - Declared Candidate 10/12

           UTKARSH JAIN - Declared Candidate 11/20

           JEANNE SOLNORDAL - Declared Candidate 10/11

AD16 - CHUNG BOTHWELL - Declared Candidate 10/30

           JACKIE COTA - Declared Candidate 10/10

           LINDA HARMESON - Declared Candidate 10/20

           KARAN HEALY - Declared Candidate 10/20

AD18 - HUNTER COBB - Declared Candidate 10/04

           FRANCIS DEFALCO - Declared Candidate 11/21

           DEBRA GELBER - Declared Candidate 11/21

           NED NUERGE - Pending

           GERALD PECHENUK - Declared Candidate 11/21

           MINDY PECHENUK - Declared Candidate 10/17

AD20 - CONNIE COX - Pending

          JOSEPH "DOC" GRCAR - Declared Candidate 9/29

           ALISON HAYDEN - Pending

           WENDY HUANG - Pending

          JAN LESLIE JONES - Pending

          VIN KRUTTIVENTI - Pending

           LUIS REYNOSO - Declared Candidate 10/17

           MIDJI ROVETTA - Declared Candidate 11/3

           JEFF WANG - Declared Candidate 10/31

           THOMAS WONG - Declared Candidate 10/11

AD24 - KEITH KOO - Declared Candidate 10/13

           DAVID LAM - Declared Candidate 11/9

           JOHN LEON GUERRERO - Pending

           STACY LIN - Declared Candidate 11/16

           YUEN SHAN STEPHANIE SZTO - Declared Candidate 11/16

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Due to cultural divides with few conservatives running for local office, party affiliation of non-partisan candidates can be a measure of key issues that motivate them.  It is not a reliable measure but significantly better than tossing a coin while voting.

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Craig Huey Judge Rankings
JI = Judicial Index (1= Liberal Activist 10=Constructionist)
Q = Qualifications (1=Unqualified 10 =Very Qualified)

District Attorney (Primary Election)

County Superior Court Judge Offices

Judges historically re-confirmed with 70%+ of vote.  Do not confirm these Judges blindly.  

Office #1 - SANDRA BEAN, Incumbent

Office #2 - PETER BORKON, Incumbent

Office #3 - ARTURO CASTRO (D), Incumbent

Office #4 - SOMNATH RAJ CHATTERJEE (D), Incumbent

Office #5 - TERRY WILEY (D) - Ran against Pamela Price for Alameda Co DA

Office #6 - ELISA DELLA-PIANA (D), Incumbent

Office #7 - PAUL DELUCCHI (NPP), Incumbent

Office #8 - TARA DESAUTELS (D), Incumbent

Office #9 - TARA FLANAGAN (D), Incumbent - Score of 4 (JI: 2, Q: 6) - Endorsed by Alameda Co Dem CC 6/2018

Office #10 - MICHAEL GAFFEY (NPP), Incumbent

Office #11 - LUPE GARCIA (NPP), Incumbent

Office #12 - MARK FICKES (D)

                  MICHAEL JOHNSON

Office #13 - TONI MIMS-COCHRAN (D), Incumbent

Office #14 - MARIA MORGA (D), Incumbent

Office #15 - ARMANDO PASTRAN JR (D), Incumbent

Office #16 - THOMAS REARDON (NPP), Incumbent

Office #17 - VERONICA RIOS REDDICK, Incumbent

Office #18 - SARAH SANDFORD-SMITH (D), Incumbent

Office #19 - STEPHANIE SATO, Incumbent

Office #20 -

Office #21 - RUBEN SUNDEEN (D), Incumbent

Office #22 - DELIA TREVINO (D), Incumbent

County Supervisor

1st District - DAVID HAUBERT (U), Incumbent

2nd District, Short Term - ELISA MÁRQUEZ (D), Incumbent

3rd District, -

4th District - JENNIFER ESTEEN (D)

                    NATE MILEY (D), Incumbent

5th District - KEITH CARSON, Incumbent

County Superintendent of Schools

Member Board of Education,

3rd Trustee Area - 

                KEN BERRICK (D), Incumbent

                PATRICE BERRY

5th Trustee Area - JANEVETTE COLE (D), Incumbent

6th Trustee Area - 

               EILEEN MCDONALD (D), Incumbent

               RAYMOND OJEDA (R)

7th Trustee Area

County Assessor

Auditor-Controller-Clerk-Recorder

Sheriff-Coroner

Treasurer-Tax Collector

Flood Control & Water Conservation District Directors (Zone 7) Full Term - Vote for 4

LAURENE GREEN (U), Incumbent

KATHY NARUM (R), Incumbent

Flood Control & Water Conservation District Directors (Zone 7) Short Term - Vote for 1

CATHERINE BROWN (D)

KATHY NARUM (R), Incumbent

Union Sanitary District Director,

Ward 2 - L. PATRICIA KITE (D), Incumbent

Ward 3 - ANJALI LATHI (U), Incumbent

Rev.12/20/2022 - The California GOP data team added 2022 General Election Vote History from their voter file to the Election Results Dashboard, which is now complete with the certified vote totals from the Secretary of State.  Best viewed on a computer or tablet here:  https://cagopdata.com/reports/election-night-results

Observations about Alameda County:  Registered Republicans: 11% of Voters (100K of 931K people) - County Republicans who Voted 57% - County Democrats who Voted 57%

One 2024 Goal to consider: Get the Alameda County Non-Republican 10% who voted Republican in 2022 to re-register as Republican.

Notes about the dashboard:

• This dashboard has multiple pages and features that allow you to view contests in greater detail including registration toplines, votes cast by party toplines, historical election information, and more.
• Hover over the map to see more details within each county where an election contest took place.
• Use the “County Filter” to filter the entire dashboard for Alameda County
• Select the “View Details” button in the top right corner of the main page of the dashboard to view election data and ballots cast details in table form.

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FINAL as of 11/22/2022 - About half the voters discarded their ballots.  

VBM Ballot return Status as of 11/7
https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2022-general/vbm-statistics.pdf

Alameda       941,605 Mailed  247,137 Rcvd   26% Returned
Statewide 22,183,890        5,230,699            25%

• This pre-final day VBM count originally felt as low turnout
• BUT an equal number of mail-in ballots arrived AFTER 11/7

As reported Election Results as of 11/22 9am
https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/status

Alameda         931,130 Register     495,599    53%  Voted         0 Remain
Statewide  21,940,274              11,114,708    50%            63,002
Election results will change as vote-by-mail ballots, provisional ballots (including conditional voter registration provisional ballots), and other ballots are tallied.  Final results to be completed by 12/9 and certified by 12/16  

• US Senate             Mark Meuser - R   - www.markmeuser.com      
• Governor              Dahle, Brian - R  - www.briandahle.com           
• Lt. Governor         Angela Underwood-Jacobs - R - www.angelaforcalifornia.com
• Sec'try of State    Bernosky, Robert  - R   - www.votebernosky.com
• Controller             Lanhee Chen - R  - www.chenforcalifornia.com  (45%)          
• Treasurer             Guerrero, Jack - R - www.jack4treasurer.com      
• Attorney General  Hochman, Nathan - R - www.nathanhochman.com       
• Comm. Insurance   Robert Howell - R  - www.electroberthowell.com
• Calif. Sup. of Instruction - Lance Ray Christensen - R  - www.lancechristensen.com (36%)

US House Representatives

• CD12 Stephen Slauson - R - [email protected]  (9%) 
• CD14 Alison Hayden  - R - www.alison4congress.com   (31%)
• CD17 Ritesh Tandon - R - www.tandonforcongress.com   (29%)

Board of Equalization District 2 - Verbica, Peter - R (30%)

State Senator  SD 10 - Two Democrats running

State Assembly

California legislators assume office first Monday in December following their election.

• AD14 Richard Kinney - R    www.richkinney.org (12%)
• AD16 Joseph Rubay - R - www.rubay4assembly.com   (34%) 
• AD18 Mindy Pechenuk - R - www.electmindy.com  (10%)
• AD20 Two Democrats running 
• AD24 Robert Brunton - R -  www.votebobbruntonforassembly.com  (31%)

JUDGES

Supreme Court (12 Year Term)
All four were confirmed with 70% yes
Court of Appeal - First Appellate District (Includes Alameda County) 
All were confirmed with 78% yes

LOCAL

City elections occur in each November General Election. The lesson in 2022 is that very few votes win most local seats.

We are not listing all candidates.   No one paid us to list these names.   See also: Candidate List - Registrar of Voters - Alameda County (acgov.org)

The Central Committee formally endorsed these LOCAL candidates:

• Fremont
  • Fremont USD 3 - Jennifer Kavouniaris - https://jenkforfremontusd.com/  (28%)
• Hayward
  • Hayward USD Board Member - Tom Wong - https://tomwong2022.com/  (19%)
• Piedmont
  • City Council - Jeanne Solnordal - https://www.votesolnordal.com/ (6%)
• Union City
  • City Council, District 2 - Jaime Patino - https://jaime-patino.com/ (56% - won with 1937 votes)
  • City Council, District 3 - Dr. Jeff Wang - www.votejeffwang.com    (46% - won with 1933 votes)
• Livermore
  • Livermore Valley Joint USD Board Members (The 3 elected had 16%, 18%, and 20% of vote)
    • Deena Kaplanis  (12%)
    • Alexandria Izarraraz - www.alex4lvjusd.com  (9%)

The Central Committee honored requests to have a preferred standing (but not formally endorsed).  These candidates cannot advertise that they are endorsed but they can say "Recommended By".

• Livermore
  • Livermore Valley Joint USD Board Members
    • John M Kupski (6%)
    • Erika Kristina Mazaika (4%)
  • Livermore City Council
    • Mayor - Mony Nop (47%)
    • District 1 - Carol Wahrer (41%)
    • District 2 - Ben Barrientos (55%)
• Oakland
  • Mayor -Ignacio De La Fuente - https://www.delafuenteformayor.com (10%)

• Sign up to track your mailed ballot here: https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/
• Check registration (status, party) with Alameda County: https://www.acgov.org/rovmvp_app/mvp.do 
• Check registration (status, mailing address) with State: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/registration-status

Source: Official Certified List of Candidates

Source: Candidate List - Registrar of Voters - Alameda County (acgov.org)