Alison Madden
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Alison Madden (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 21. She lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Madden completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Alison Madden earned a bachelor's degree from St. Louis University in 1987. She earned a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1993. Her career experience includes working as an attorney.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 21
Diane Papan defeated Giselle Hale (Unofficially withdrew) in the general election for California State Assembly District 21 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Diane Papan (D) | 72.4 | 94,676 |
| Giselle Hale (D) (Unofficially withdrew) | 27.6 | 36,014 | ||
| Total votes: 130,690 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 21
The following candidates ran in the primary for California State Assembly District 21 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Diane Papan (D) | 41.3 | 40,434 |
| ✔ | Giselle Hale (D) | 19.8 | 19,400 | |
 | Mark Gilham (R) | 19.5 | 19,078 | |
 | James Coleman (D) | 11.5 | 11,269 | |
 | Alison Madden (D) | 3.4 | 3,359 | |
| Maurice Goodman (D) | 2.7 | 2,664 | ||
 | Tania Solé (G) | 1.7 | 1,620 | |
| Total votes: 97,824 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Alison Madden completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Madden's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a progressive democrat and attorney running a people's campaign for Assembly. Always a renter while raising 2 boys as a single working mom, I am postured to provide real solutions to working Californians. With my Millennial & Gen Z'er grown, I desire to advocate full time for the people of AD21.
- Although a progressive democrat, I work well “across the aisle” with the entire spectrum and am proud of the ‘big tent’ the Democratic Party has achieved. I would be collegial in Sacramento, seeking solutions across the political spectrum. Bold action is needed on Housing, Climate and Eviction and Judicial Reform. Home ownershiop brings stablity and public safety for all Californians.
- California must lead on Climate Action, from inventing the ownership of e-cars and e-bikes at all income levels, to creating a youth green corps and green labor jobs. Taking bold action to reverse both emissions and presence of warming gases is essential for our future.
- Economic recovery must benefit all Californians, and we must focus on supporting our schools and teachers as they recover from the impact of school closures due to the pandemic. I support increasing teacher pay and benefits, ensuring school safety, and guaranteeing safe child care & healthcare.
I am passionate about Housing, including eviction reform for tenants and programs for home ownership; Climate Action, by supporting all income levels to move to e-cars and e-bikes, and providing other green transportation and jobs programs; Judicial Reform, to emphasize restorative justice and work furlough with restitution for nonviolent offenders and incarceration reform; Education, including teacher pay and school safety; Ending homelessness and poverty and providing effective treating mental health and substance abuse conditions. Protecting choice and being prepared and resilient against wildfires and rising sea and Bay levels are also key priorities of mine in Sacramento, as is racial and ethnic (including indigenous) equity and animal rights. Repealing the Art. 34 impediment to public development is also essential.
Accountability, transparency and honesty are the most important characteristics for elected officials. Candidates must honestly declare their priorities and intentions, their platforms, and then work for them. This is the voters' mandate. Once elected, they must be transparent with their residents, and keep them informed. An elected official must recognize the honor and privilege of being a representative for people too busy to often show up to speak and advocate for themselves. I would work nonstop for AD21, I have no distractions. My kids are grown and my life is settled, organized and simple. I am focused and experienced. I would be communicative and transparent, and accountable for every action I take. I would work nonstop for the best programs and benefits for the residents of AD21, from ubiquitous broadband and every household connected, to home purchase programs, rental assistance and eviction protection, reform to encourage real restorative justice and restitution, and action on climate, housing, education, and eliminating poverty, addiction and dependency.
I am dogged and relentless, but can work with anyone. I have been a member of fast-growth and fast-moving startup companies, all bought by big 5 tech companies. As a single working mom, raising 2 kids, one with special needs, I had the support of executives that knew how hard this was, and granted me flexibility so long as I delivered. I recently won at trial in support of tenants being kicked out of their houseboats and floating homes by the City of Redwood City, including its current Mayor. One of my competitors in this race is literally evicting me right now. I have fought for the tenants for over 5 years, and for 5 years before that on behalf of tenants from other marinas. I do not give up, but I can and do adjust to current challenges. I am a creative, flexible and divergent thinker and not afraid to propose new efforts for problems that have not responded to more bureaucratic or incremental approaches.
I would like to make an impact in eradicating homelessness, poverty and addiction, and in supporting California as the leader in Climate Action and safe schools. For the last 40 years America has invested trillions in brick and mortar jails and prisons and a militarized police force. We must fully revise our approach, investing in a community presence, in violence prevention and in diversion and work furlough for restorative justice and restitution, for nonviolent offenders, especially women. While public safety necessitates action on violent crime, we have not invested in prevention, diversion, restoration, restitution, work furlough and rehabilitation. I would like make California adaptive to wildfires and floods from climate impact, and a model in education with increased pay for teachers.
I was 8 when the Watergate office building was burgled, and 10 when the hearings were publicly televised. My parents advised me it was the most important event to happen in politics in their lifetimes. My dad had flown helicopter rescue in Vietnam for the USAF while we lived on Guam, but in the political sphere, this was unexpected and shocking at the time, the Watergate fiasco and how the public's discovery and awareness unfolded through journalistic excellence.
I was riveted to the TV, although the hearings were decidedly less fun than the typical TV fare I was watching at the time, being Saturday morning cartoons and Masterpiece Theatre and PBS with my family (The Last Mohicans, Sesame Street, Electric Co., and, later, Roots).
I was palpably aware the hearings were about corruption in politics, and accountability. I recall after the entire series of events played out, thinking it had been honorable for the President to admit the wrongdoing of his party and operatives, and take responsibility for his part in the coverup. I believed this established a high bar and high water mark that would not ignored nor descended below, in the future.
My only struggle has been adjusting to the challenges of modern issues as a single income family. With the cycles of tech bubbles on a boom and bust cycle, it has been difficult to be positioned at any given time to be a home owner. I know many Californians are in this position, including families where all the adults work, sometimes two jobs. I always wanted to live on a houseboat and my dream came true a decade ago, but development eradicated the marinas East of 101 in Redwood City, although such housing is naturally-occurring affordable housing and is adaptive and mitigating to climate impact. Not a single affordable unit remained out of nearly 1000. One of my sons has a high functioning spectrum diagnosis, and a resultant condition that has required attention at the educational and support levels. He requires independent housing he can afford, and is losing it because of unnecessary government bureaucracy and misconduct. I would protect this and other alternative housing options that put a roof over people's heads.
Every day Californians see and feel the visible evidence of our current challenges, which will remain the State's greatest challenges for the next decade - climate impact and the resulting floods and wildfires; poverty, addiction and homelessness, which impact public safety and the personal dignity of those experiencing them; and Housing, housing, housing - for all levels of income, in all sizes, everywhere - both rentals and programs for the stability of home ownership for single workers, single working parents and families. We must house and treat our citizens, and they will be able to live their best lives, with happiness and freedom (life, liberty and happiness being the unalienable rights referred to in our Declaration of Independence. Supporting teachers, and ensuring safe schools with current learning tools, is also an overarching priority that supports all of these other goals.
I believe it is entirely unnecessary. I volunteered in a special election and a runoff in 2021, in the East Bay of the S.F. Bay Area. The field for the Special Election had elected and appointed officials, as well as a nonprofit executive and a social justice attorney. The 2 "never-electeds" won the Special and went to the Runoff. It was refreshing, they were the two most progressive and both female, one a renter. This diversity and divergent experience and perspective is what is actually "needed" now in Sacramento. I have nonprofit and for-profit (tech) serial executive experience, I am a renter and social justice attorney (judicial and tenant/eviction reform being keys aspects of my platform). I am the most experienced in business and law, and have been an active public participant for over a decade in defense of affordable housing, proper land use, saving a local marina and speaking and posting on behalf of reform of the County Jail and the eviction process. This is as qualifying, if not more so, than having been appointed or elected to a board that meets monthly or bi-monthly, even if the work is important.
My favorite joke is like the one Uma Thurman tells in Pulp Fiction. Q: "Did you hear the one about the peanut walking down the street"? A: No. Punchline: "It was a salted." Ba-doom ch.
This depends on the issue and proposed solution. It is important to work across the entire spectrum to find common ground. It is important to be teachable, and to support the offerings and contributions of others that fall short of what I may envision as the perfect solution. I would be a stalwart advocate for creative, flexible and bold solutions for Housing, Climate, Reform and eliminating Poverty and Homelessness, as these aspects of policy reverberate through every aspect of daily life. To obtain these I would support others' objectives and priorities.
My dad was a conservative Republican, my mom a liberal Democrat; they met and married at Catholic colleges in Massachusetts, and both parents served God, family, and country, my dad being in the USAF and a great #girldad to 5 girls. They rarely, almost never, fought about politics.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 21, 2022
Current members of the California State Assembly
Leadership
Majority Leader:Cecilia Aguiar-Curry
Minority Leader:James Gallagher
Representatives
District 1
Heather Hadwick (R)
District 2
Chris Rogers (D)
District 3
James Gallagher (R)
District 4
District 5
Joe Patterson (R)
District 6
Maggy Krell (D)
District 7
Josh Hoover (R)
District 8
David Tangipa (R)
District 9
Heath Flora (R)
District 10
Stephanie Nguyen (D)
District 11
Lori Wilson (D)
District 12
Damon Connolly (D)
District 13
Rhodesia Ransom (D)
District 14
Buffy Wicks (D)
District 15
District 16
District 17
Matt Haney (D)
District 18
Mia Bonta (D)
District 19
District 20
Liz Ortega (D)
District 21
Diane Papan (D)
District 22
Juan Alanis (R)
District 23
Marc Berman (D)
District 24
Alex Lee (D)
District 25
Ash Kalra (D)
District 26
Patrick Ahrens (D)
District 27
Esmeralda Soria (D)
District 28
Gail Pellerin (D)
District 29
Robert Rivas (D)
District 30
Dawn Addis (D)
District 31
Joaquin Arambula (D)
District 32
Stan Ellis (R)
District 33
Alexandra Macedo (R)
District 34
Tom Lackey (R)
District 35
Jasmeet Bains (D)
District 36
Jeff Gonzalez (R)
District 37
Gregg Hart (D)
District 38
Steve Bennett (D)
District 39
Juan Carrillo (D)
District 40
Pilar Schiavo (D)
District 41
John Harabedian (D)
District 42
Jacqui Irwin (D)
District 43
District 44
Nick Schultz (D)
District 45
James Ramos (D)
District 46
Jesse Gabriel (D)
District 47
Greg Wallis (R)
District 48
Blanca Rubio (D)
District 49
Mike Fong (D)
District 50
Robert Garcia (D)
District 51
Rick Zbur (D)
District 52
Jessica Caloza (D)
District 53
District 54
Mark Gonzalez (D)
District 55
Isaac Bryan (D)
District 56
Lisa Calderon (D)
District 57
Sade Elhawary (D)
District 58
Leticia Castillo (R)
District 59
Phillip Chen (R)
District 60
Corey Jackson (D)
District 61
Tina McKinnor (D)
District 62
Jose Solache (D)
District 63
Natasha Johnson (R)
District 64
Blanca Pacheco (D)
District 65
Mike Gipson (D)
District 66
Al Muratsuchi (D)
District 67
District 68
Avelino Valencia (D)
District 69
Josh Lowenthal (D)
District 70
Tri Ta (R)
District 71
Kate Sanchez (R)
District 72
Diane Dixon (R)
District 73
District 74
Laurie Davies (R)
District 75
Carl DeMaio (R)
District 76
Darshana Patel (D)
District 77
Tasha Horvath (D)
District 78
Christopher Ward (D)
District 79
District 80
David Alvarez (D)
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