Christie Dougherty
Christie Dougherty (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 75. Dougherty lost in the primary on March 5, 2024.
Dougherty completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Christie Dougherty was born in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. Dougherty served in the U.S. Navy from 1994 to 1998. She earned a degree from Grossmont College in 2001, a bachelor's degree from San Diego State University in 2006, and a graduate degree from San Diego State University in 2013. Dougherty's career experience includes working as a teacher.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2024
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 75
Carl DeMaio defeated Andrew Hayes in the general election for California State Assembly District 75 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Carl DeMaio (R)  | 57.0 | 121,167 |
 | Andrew Hayes (R) | 43.0 | 91,337 | |
| Total votes: 212,504 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 75
The following candidates ran in the primary for California State Assembly District 75 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carl DeMaio (R) | 42.9 | 54,350 |
| ✔ | | Andrew Hayes (R) | 18.7 | 23,664 |
| Kevin Juza (D) | 18.2 | 23,010 | ||
 | Christie Dougherty (D) | 10.0 | 12,675 | |
 | Joy Frew (D) | 7.4 | 9,362 | |
 | Jack Fernandes (R) | 2.8 | 3,596 | |
| Total votes: 126,657 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Christie Dougherty completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dougherty's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Homelessness and housing affordability, high costs of living, crime rates, border security, safe schools, and affordable healthcare are priorities in our district. My promise to you, the voter, is to continue to do what I have done all my life, work hard to make a difference. Children deserve high-quality educations in safe environments, housing ownership should be obtainable, and nobody should be worried that getting sick will deplete their life savings or cause them to lose their homes. A vote for me ensures you are represented in Sacramento.
- All people deserve the opportunity to thrive. As a district representative who will be researching, writing, and voting on legislation, I promise to ask myself how every proposed item directly affects the people I represent. Similarly, there will be a need to prioritize and consider what will most significantly improve the lives of the hard workers of the 75th district. Our district is diverse, for example the needs of Ramona may differ from those of Lemon Grove and then from that of Poway and Alpine. Rather than waste time ranting about what other elected officials are doing or attempting to build up a portfolio for higher office, I feel my time would be best served working towards bettering the lives of 75th district folks like yourself.
- There hasn’t been a democrat elected to the 75th district since 1992 and I realize my party affiliation makes me an underdog in this race. I am asking for an opportunity as a 75th district resident of over 2 decades to be given a chance to represent everyone in our district. Most people can’t name a 75th district representative, let alone how a decision they’ve made has affected them personally. That should tell us something, not enough public outreach over the years or representation. I will represent our district and be available to speak to you. My party affiliation, to me, indicates that I prioritize health care, education, equality, the right of a woman to have a choice over her body, and climate crises (insurance) concerns.
- I am tired of the polarization of politics and the ease at which misinformation has spread and created rifts between good people. As an educator I value input from people, research from experts, and fact checking. I see no reason why with patience and all the tools we have today we cannot get together to mend those rifts and seek solutions.
Safe schools
Access to college for everyone
Affordable Higher Education
Preventing and decreasing homelessness
Affordable housing
Preventing fentanyl use
Access to affordable, quality, and timely mental health care
Equality
A woman’s right to choose
Addressing the climate crises through environmental regulation (history tells us the wealthy do not naturally do what is right when it comes to profit versus the environment).
State-funded affordable fire insurance with an affordable deductible subsidized by big oil companies.
I gravitate now as an adult to learning about individuals who were firsts (the first woman Dr, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first black pilot Ahmet Ali Çelikten, and the first native American astronaut John Harrington) or people who took incredible risks regardless of consequences to do the right thing. For example, women who worked undercover against the Nazis risking and sometimes losing their lives, the men and women like Harriet Tubman who ran the underground railroad system, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks (imagine choosing to sit at that moment in time and the consequences and results).
I think I am more inspired by the idea that these people did these amazing things and paved the way for the rest of us than I am any one person. I look up to their legacy because they were human and I am sure afraid and had doubts, and yet the world is a better place because of them.
No, I guess I don't feel there is. It is strange because I love movies and books but I don't know that I would identify solely with one of either.
I do not feel elected officials should in any way profit directly or indirectly from legislation or stop legislation from being voted on.
I have a special place in my heart for Harry Potter as I read all of those to my children.
We can list any topic, from homelessness to the climate crisis as the greatest challenge and we would be correct, but an even greater challenge is when the elected officials and people who put them there cannot even discuss solutions without blaming each other, not to mention the havoc that misinformation has caused both for voters and how it has been weaponized by politicians.
You tell the audience, Ask me two questions.
1. What do I do for a living?
2 Why am I great at it?
Ideally, every politician would agree a pandemic is an emergency, but as we saw we had folks inundated with misinformation deny the threat.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 22, 2024
