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Christy Smith
Christy Smith (Democratic Party) was a member of the California State Assembly, representing District 38. She assumed office on December 3, 2018. She left office on December 7, 2020.
Smith (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 27th Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Prior to serving in the legislature, Smith served two terms as a governing board member of the Newhall School District.
Biography
Smith received her bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA. Her professional experience includes working as an analyst at the U.S. Department of Education and founding the Valencia Valley Technological Education Foundation.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: California's 27th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 27
Incumbent Mike Garcia defeated Christy Smith in the general election for U.S. House California District 27 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Garcia (R) | 53.2 | 104,624 |
 | Christy Smith (D) | 46.8 | 91,892 | |
| Total votes: 196,516 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 27
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 27 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Garcia (R) | 47.1 | 57,469 |
| ✔ | | Christy Smith (D) | 37.4 | 45,675 |
 | John Quaye Quartey (D) | 6.8 | 8,303 | |
 | Ruth Luevanos (D) | 5.5 | 6,668 | |
 | David Rudnick (R) | 2.2 | 2,648 | |
 | Mark Pierce (R) | 1.1 | 1,352 | |
| Total votes: 122,115 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Fepbrina Keivaulqe Autiameineire (Independent)
- Crystal Prebola (R)
- Ali Jordan (Independent)
2020
California's 25th Congressional District regular election
See also: California's 25th Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 25
Incumbent Mike Garcia defeated Christy Smith in the general election for U.S. House California District 25 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Garcia (R) | 50.0 | 169,638 |
| Christy Smith (D) | 50.0 | 169,305 | |
| Total votes: 338,943 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 25
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 25 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christy Smith (D) | 31.7 | 49,679 |
| ✔ | | Mike Garcia (R) | 23.9 | 37,381 |
 | Stephen Knight (R) | 18.9 | 29,645 | |
 | Cenk Uygur (D) | 5.9 | 9,246 | |
 | Getro Elize (D) | 4.0 | 6,317 | |
 | David Lozano (R) | 4.0 | 6,272 | |
 | Anibal Valdez-Ortega (D) | 3.1 | 4,920 | |
 | Robert Cooper (D) | 2.9 | 4,474 | |
 | George Papadopoulos (R) | 1.8 | 2,749 | |
 | Otis Lee Cooper (Independent) | 1.4 | 2,183 | |
 | Christopher Smith (D) (Unofficially withdrew) | 1.3 | 2,089 | |
 | Daniel Mercuri (R) | 0.6 | 913 | |
 | Kenneth Jenks (R) | 0.4 | 682 | |
| Total votes: 156,550 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- David Rudnick (D)
- Charles Patron (R)
- Mark Cripe (R)
- Suzette Martinez Valladares (R)
- Angela Underwood Jacobs (R)
- Katie Hill (D)
Candidate profile
Party: Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office:
- California State Assembly (Assumed office: 2018)
Biography: Smith received a degree from the College of the Canyons. Before her election to the California State Assembly in 2018, she founded the Valencia Valley Technological Education Foundation, worked as a legislative vice president of the Santa Clarita Valley Trustees Association, and served as a delegate to the California School Board Association.
Show sources
Sources: YouTube, "Better Life," September 9, 2020; YouTube, "Trump's Choice," May 2, 2020; YouTube, "Access," January 23, 2020; Christy Smith's 2020 campaign website,"Christy's Priorities," accessed September 28, 2020; Christy Smith 2020 campaign website, "Meet Christy," accessed September 28, 2020
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House California District 25 in 2020.
California's 25th Congressional District special election
See also: California's 25th Congressional District special election, 2020
General election
Special general election for U.S. House California District 25
Mike Garcia defeated Christy Smith in the special general election for U.S. House California District 25 on May 12, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Garcia (R) | 54.9 | 95,667 |
| Christy Smith (D) | 45.1 | 78,721 | |
| Total votes: 174,388 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 25
The following candidates ran in the special primary for U.S. House California District 25 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christy Smith (D) | 36.2 | 58,563 |
| ✔ | | Mike Garcia (R) | 25.4 | 41,169 |
| Stephen Knight (R) | 17.2 | 27,799 | |
| Cenk Uygur (D) | 6.6 | 10,609 | |
| Anibal Valdez-Ortega (D) | 4.6 | 7,368 | |
 | Courtney Lackey (R) | 1.9 | 3,072 | |
| Robert Cooper (D) | 1.8 | 2,962 | |
| David Lozano (R) | 1.7 | 2,758 | |
| Daniel Mercuri (R) | 1.6 | 2,533 | |
| Kenneth Jenks (R) | 1.6 | 2,528 | |
| Getro Elize (D) | 0.9 | 1,414 | |
| David Rudnick (D) | 0.7 | 1,085 | |
| Total votes: 161,860 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 38
Christy Smith defeated incumbent Dante Acosta in the general election for California State Assembly District 38 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christy Smith (D) | 51.5 | 95,751 |
 | Dante Acosta (R) | 48.5 | 90,298 | |
| Total votes: 186,049 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 38
Incumbent Dante Acosta and Christy Smith advanced from the primary for California State Assembly District 38 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dante Acosta (R) | 53.6 | 49,825 |
| ✔ | | Christy Smith (D) | 46.4 | 43,050 |
| Total votes: 92,875 | |||
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2016
Elections for the California State Assembly took place in 2016. The primary election was held on June 7, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was February 25, 2016, for candidates filing with signatures. The deadline for candidates using a filing fee to qualify was March 11, 2016.[2] Incumbent Scott Wilk (R) did not seek re-election.
Dante Acosta defeated Christy Smith in the California State Assembly District 38 general election.[3][4]
| California State Assembly, District 38 General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Dante Acosta |
52.87% | 102,977 | |
| Democratic | Christy Smith | 47.13% | 91,801 | |
| Total Votes | 194,778 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State | ||||
Christy Smith and Dante Acosta defeated Tyler Izen and Jarrod R. Degonia in the California State Assembly District 38 Blanket primary.[5][6]
| California State Assembly, District 38 Blanket Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Christy Smith |
44.66% | 44,755 | |
| Republican | Dante Acosta |
36.16% | 36,236 | |
| Republican | Tyler Izen | 10.98% | 10,998 | |
| Republican | Jarrod R. Degonia | 8.20% | 8,215 | |
| Total Votes | 100,204 | |||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Christy Smith did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Smith's campaign website stated the following:
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EXPANDING ACCESS TO QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE Healthcare is a human right and while the Affordable Care Act was a tremendous step in that direction, Christy believes we need to do more to reduce costs, ensure that every American has access to affordable healthcare, and protect those with pre-existing conditions. Additionally, Christy believes we need to have the same consumer protections in the healthcare system as we do in any consumer market, which includes transparency when it comes to the real cost of healthcare treatments. She will work to shed light on pricing that for too long has been negotiated in the dark. Congress needs to do the work of controlling the skyrocketing cost of healthcare, including the rising costs of prescription drugs. It’s unacceptable that US taxpayers subsidize the research and development of lifesaving drugs, only to pay more for them than people who live in Europe, Japan, and Canada. Christy will also fight to protect Medicaid and Medicare, women's reproductive healthcare rights, and funding for Planned Parenthood. In the California State Assembly, Christy Smith:
During a historic pandemic, Christy was a leader in the State Assembly fighting for life-saving health and safety measures as well as economic assistance for struggling Californians. To read why healthcare is personal to Christy, click here.
Christy believes that a great education levels the playing field and creates more opportunity for all of our young people. That's why she has dedicated her career, particularly as a federal education policy expert and a member of her local school board, to improving schools and giving every student a fair chance through a world-class education, including:
In Congress, she will work to support every student from preschool to grad school. Christy will work to invest in local public classrooms so that we can hire more teachers and reduce class sizes, and pay teachers livable middle class wages. We must ensure students have options after K-12, without going into a lifetime of debt. Christy will work to increase the affordability and availability of options like job training, apprenticeships, technical school, and more affordable public colleges and universities.
With abortion rights under attack, Christy has been a steadfast defender of the right to choose, which is why she has a 100% scorecard from Planned Parenthood. She’ll push back against Republican efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade and end funding for Planned Parenthood, protect abortion rights in federal law, and protect the ability to buy contraceptives. During Christy's first pregnancy, she experienced eclampsia, and endured multiple seizures that threatened her life. When she became pregnant a second time, she had to make the tough decision to continue her pregnancy, knowing she may leave her daughter without a mother should complications occur. This experience solidified for Christy that no politician can make these private and difficult decisions for women and families. That’s why Christy will always defend access to reproductive care and protect safe, legal abortion.
Here in the 27th District, we are all too familiar with the emerging threat of the climate crisis—experiencing wildfires in nearly every part of the district, air and water pollution, drought, and more. For too long, federal agencies have fallen short in their stewardship, so we must fight to ensure accountability and reform. We have a lot of work to do to protect the air our children breathe and water they drink here at home, including shutting down the Aliso Canyon gas facility and ensuring aggressive oversight of our district’s two toxic waste clean-up sites, Santa Susana Field Laboratory and Whittaker Bermite, and three landfills, Sunshine Canyon, Chiquita Canyon, and Simi Valley. As Chair of the State Assembly's Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Management, Christy co-authored a law that ensures first responders have mental healthcare covered in their workers’ compensation policy and worked to ensure communities had the resources needed in the face of growing wildfires. Christy held town halls to properly educate communities about wildfire resiliency and how to prevent loss of life, livelihood and property. Now, Christy is an appointed member of the California Delta Stewardship Council where she works on issues like water supply reliability and ecosystem health with the council consisting of experts on agriculture, science, the environment and public service. We must also invest in building a fully renewable and clean energy infrastructure using wind and solar to create good mortgage-paying jobs and combat the climate crisis so we can ensure our community is a place where families can live and thrive for generations to come, before it’s too late.
We need to get serious about creating better-paying jobs right here in our community so more middle-class families can prosper and don’t need to spend hours away from their families to commute to downtown Los Angeles. Christy Smith has a plan to do it. She believes we must make smart investments in transportation infrastructure, education, scientific research, and renewable and clean energy industries to create sustainable jobs in our community that will also pay the mortgage. We must do more to help people start and grow small businesses right here at home and give people the career skills they need by making colleges and trade schools more affordable and accessible, all the while ensuring that workers have the right to organize and have a voice in the workplace through unions. As a former labor leader, Christy understands the value of our unions and passing the Protecting the Right to Organize Act or PRO Act to support California's working families.
As a mother, Christy believes that every one of us has the right to live without the fear of gun violence and protect our families. That’s why she will work to promote public safety in neighborhoods across the 27th District and America by stemming the tide of gun violence and fighting for comprehensive and mandatory universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, “red flag” laws that allow families to ask courts to take guns away from domestic abusers and others who are a danger to themselves and others. In 2019, our community endured a tragic shooting at Saugus High School that took two innocent lives. As our Assemblywoman, Christy sprang into action to support families and mobilize resources. Christy is very proud to hold an F-rating from the National Rifle Association and is deeply committed to fighting in Congress to reduce gun violence and work towards a new era of gun safety where no community has to face the tragedy we have. Christy supports commonsense reforms and investments in public safety to continue to reduce emergency response times, lower crime rates, and improve neighborhood security for all communities. Our law enforcement departments can better serve our communities with increased investments in effective community-based policing, racial bias training, and crisis intervention training along with more trained support professionals, especially mental health experts, within and/or in conjunction with departments. In Congress, Christy will work to pass reforms and provide funding to keep all of our communities safe.[7] |
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| —Christy Smith's campaign website (2022)[8] | ||
2020
Christy Smith did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Smith’s campaign website stated the following:
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Improving Public Education Christy also wants to ensure students have options after K-12, without going into a lifetime of debt. She wants to increase the affordability and availability of options like job training, apprenticeships, technical school, and more affordable public colleges and universities. Lowering Taxes for California Families Assemblywoman Christy Smith introduced AB 2379 which would create an annual tax exemption holiday for certain emergency supplies. Throughout her time in public service, Christy has fought to lower taxes and ensure that existing tax dollars are spent on the best interest of Californians. Christy will take that same sense of fiscal responsibility to Congress. Ending Corruption in Washington Now more than ever, it’s critical that we hold Washington accountable and defend our democracy by fighting against the special interest money flooding into our nation’s capital. If we want a government that represents the will of the people and not special interests, we have to change the way we finance our campaigns. That’s why Christy supports ending the disastrous Citizens United decision, and refuses to accept a dime from Big Pharma, Big Oil, the Gun Lobby, Big Tobacco, any other federal corporate PAC money, or contributions from any federal lobbyist. She’s only going to be accountable to the thousands of people across the 25th District, not corporate special interests that have corrupted our politics and hurt our communities. Keeping Our Families and Communities Safe As Chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Management, and the mother of two daughters, Christy has risen above party politics to deliver for California's first responders. In Congress, she will work to invest more in public safety so we can continue to reduce emergency response times and improve neighborhood security. As the climate crisis worsens, our fire danger is greater than ever and we need to equip our professionals with the tools and resources needed to respond. Making Health Care More Affordable and Available Health care is a human right and while the Affordable Care Act was a tremendous step in that direction, Christy believes we need to do more to reduce costs, ensure that every American has access to affordable healthcare, and protect those with pre-existing conditions. That’s why she supports a public health insurance option for anyone who wants it. Additionally, Christy believes we need to have the same consumer protections in the healthcare system as we do in any consumer market, which includes transparency when it comes to the real cost of healthcare treatments. She will work to shed light on pricing that for too long has been negotiated in the dark. Christy also believes that Congress needs to do the work of controlling the skyrocketing cost of health care, including the rising costs of prescription drugs. It’s unacceptable that US taxpayers subsidize the research and development of lifesaving drugs, only to pay more for them than people who live in Europe, Japan, and Canada. She'll also fight to protect Medicaid and Medicare, women's reproductive health care rights, and funding for Planned Parenthood. “This fight is personal to me. I understand what it’s like to lose a loved one because they couldn’t afford care. I will fight so no family has to go through what mine did.” - Christy Smith Advocating for Women and Families Growing the Middle Class and Small Businesses Taking on Corporate Polluters and the Climate Crisis We must also invest in building a fully renewable and clean energy infrastructure using wind and solar to create good mortgage-paying jobs and combat the climate crisis so we can ensure our community is a place where families can live and thrive for generations to come, before it’s too late. Enacting Gun Safety Measures Protecting Our Veterans and Seniors Building Housing that's Affordable for Families Ensuring Human Rights for All Common Sense Immigration Reform Separating children from their families and putting them in cages is outrageous and un-American. Christy believes that immigration is fundamentally a humanitarian issue and should be handled with compassion delivered through a much more robust system. We need more judges on the border to process cases in a more fair and rapid manner. [7] |
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| —Christy Smith’s campaign website (2020)[9] | ||
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2020
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2019
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In 2019, the California State Legislature was in session from January 7 through September 13.
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2018
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In 2018, the California State Legislature was in session from January 3, 2018 through August 31, 2018.
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Personal
As of 2019, Smith lived in Santa Clarita, California, with her husband Philip and their two daughters.[10]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Christy Smith's 2022 campaign website, "Meet Christy," accessed May 16, 2022
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Key Dates and Deadlines," accessed April 18, 2017
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Certified List of Candidates for the November 8, 2016, General Election," accessed September 7, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "2016 General Election results," accessed December 23, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Certified List of Candidates for Voter-Nominated Offices," accessed April 4, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Statement of Vote," accessed August 22, 2016
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Christy Smith for Congress, “Priorities,” accessed September 1, 2022
- ↑ Christy Smith’s campaign website, “Christy's Priorities,” accessed September 28, 2020
- ↑ California State Assembly, “Christy Smith Assemblywoman, District 38” accessed September 27, 2019
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Dante Acosta (R) |
California State Assembly District 38 2018-2020 |
Succeeded by Suzette Martinez Valladares (R) |
