Brandii Grace
Brandii Grace (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 38. She lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Grace completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2020
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 38
Suzette Martinez Valladares defeated Lucie Volotzky in the general election for California State Assembly District 38 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Suzette Martinez Valladares (R) | 76.1 | 149,201 |
Lucie Volotzky (R) ![]() | 23.9 | 46,877 |
Total votes: 196,078 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 38
The following candidates ran in the primary for California State Assembly District 38 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Suzette Martinez Valladares (R) | 31.8 | 39,481 |
✔ | Lucie Volotzky (R) ![]() | 17.6 | 21,942 | |
Annie Cho (D) | 12.5 | 15,498 | ||
![]() | Kelvin Driscoll (D) | 12.0 | 14,868 | |
![]() | Brandii Grace (D) ![]() | 11.6 | 14,387 | |
![]() | Dina Cervantes (D) ![]() | 8.8 | 10,900 | |
Susan Christopher (D) (Unofficially withdrew) | 5.8 | 7,255 |
Total votes: 124,331 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Brandii Grace completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Grace's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- Address homelessness head on, with the understanding that this is not one issue with a silver bullet solution - it's a failure of multiple issues at once, and they all need to be addressed.
- Clean up our community's environment once and for all - that means fully closing down Aliso Canyon, cleaning up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory to background radiation levels, and more.
- Fully fund our education system - including passing universal pre-K and ending the current program that ties funding to attendance and deprives our schools of resources when they're shut down or children are sick.
As a STEM educator and video game designer, I excel in systems design and analysis. I also know how to communicate complicated concepts to many different types of people - even children.
https://www.facebook.com/GraceForAssembly/posts/164592854992862
Because I was so young, I can't remember exactly how long I held that job, but the janitor position was just one of a series of part-time jobs I had throughout my childhood in order to keep my family fed and clothed (and keep the lights on when we had a roof over our heads). At the time, the child labor laws in our city allowed kids to work on commission so they could legally hold paper routes. For that reason, most of my other jobs involved sales or deliveries. Some jobs I did on my own and some I did alongside my grandmother.
will have better experience to do this job reliably and well.
So our greatest challenge will be putting policies in place that help people and communities over huge special interests. We need to promote wage and job growth. We need to build affordable housing. We need to cut healthcare costs. We need to support small businesses. We need to better fund public colleges to eliminate crushing student debt. We need to reform our prison system to help good people recover from their mistakes while keeping our communities safe. We need to ensure access to affordable child and elder care. We need to fully-fund our classrooms so our children receive a proper education. We need to
It is my dearest hope that no mother will ever again be forced to bury her child in an early grave because we failed to do our part.
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See also
2020 Elections
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