Flojaune Cofer
Flojaune Cofer ran for election for Mayor of Sacramento in California. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Cofer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Flojaune Cofer earned a bachelor's degree from Spelman College and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her career experience includes working as an epidemiologist, senior policy director, and public health professional. Cofer has been affiliated with the Public Health Advocates organization.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Mayoral election in Sacramento, California (2024)
General election
General election for Mayor of Sacramento
Kevin McCarty defeated Flojaune Cofer in the general election for Mayor of Sacramento on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kevin McCarty (Nonpartisan) | 50.5 | 96,433 |
 | Flojaune Cofer (Nonpartisan)  | 49.5 | 94,495 | |
| Total votes: 190,928 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Sacramento
The following candidates ran in the primary for Mayor of Sacramento on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Flojaune Cofer (Nonpartisan) | 29.2 | 30,272 |
| ✔ | | Kevin McCarty (Nonpartisan) | 21.5 | 22,302 |
 | Richard Pan (Nonpartisan) | 21.3 | 22,010 | |
 | Steve Hansen (Nonpartisan) | 21.0 | 21,684 | |
| Jose Avina II (Nonpartisan) | 6.0 | 6,217 | ||
| Julius Engel (Nonpartisan) | 1.0 | 1,013 | ||
| Total votes: 103,498 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Horne (Nonpartisan)
- Jon Foy (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Flojaune Cofer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cofer's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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At the Department of Public Health, I built coalitions to expand women’s health coverage and decreased infant mortality statewide. I’m an epidemiologist with a PhD in Public Health. For years I’ve advocated for bold action on housing and workers rights. I’m endorsed by labor unions, small business owners, progressive leaders, and community groups.
My parents were public school teachers and union members. They taught me to fight for our community. I lost my dad at age eleven. He started smoking when Big Tobacco lobbyists lied about the dangers. Since then I’ve dedicated my life to passing policies that help us live longer and healthier lives.
I hope you'll join our movement to build a Sacramento where all of us can thrive, not just those at the top.- Why should we trust the same politicians who got Sacramento into this mess to get us out of it? We need new leadership. As a public health expert and four-term chair of the Measure U committee, I’ll provide the leadership needed to solve our homelessness and housing crisis, make our streets safer, and create quality jobs while protecting our climate.
- Housing is a human right. As mayor, I'll treat Sacramento's housing and homelessness crisis as a public health emergency on day one. We must expand tenant protections, homeless services, and affordable housing to make sure everyone in our city has a roof over their head.
- It's time for a Green New Deal. Climate change is a challenge and an opportunity. Transforming our energy system to 100% renewable will enable us to create thousands of jobs from building new bike lanes, to weatherizing existing homes, planting trees, and building thousands of new units of sustainably designed affordable housing. I’ll implement Sacramento’s Climate Action Plan to achieve zero emissions. Sacramento can be a national leader for a just transition.
As an epidemiologist, Senior Policy Director for Public Health Advocates, and four-term chair of the city’s Measure U committee I have built coalitions, advocated for change, and passed policies that benefited working families. As Mayor, I’ll work with you to build a city where all of us can thrive.
As mayor I will reduce homelessness and reduce encampments by expanding safeground options that provide basic services to our unhoused neighbors, and puts them on a path to more permanent housing. I will work closely with our City Manager to ensure that we are continually identifying and establishing Safeground sites with access to water, trash pickup, toilets, showers, and laundry.
To protect renters, I will expand tenant protections, educate tenants and landlords about their rights, and fund legal assistance for people who cannot afford it. I will address the homelessness crisis upstream by supporting programs that help keep people housed.
As mayor, I’ll treat this as a public health emergency. I'll reduce homelessness and encampments by expanding temporary shelter and safeground options that provide basic services, including water, trash pickup, toilets, showers — until shelter or permanent supportive housing gets secured. We also need homeless support services including addiction and mental health.
For every person we get rehoused in Sacramento, three more become homeless. We need to address the root causes of homelessness. I support Sacramento Forward, a program to expand tenant protections and build more affordable housing. I'll expand tenant protections to stop the flood of new people entering homelessness. We must also establish inclusionary housing, so a percentage of all new housing built is affordable. We can’t just build luxury units for people moving here from the Bay Area, raising home prices, and throwing long-term residents onto the streets. We must act now to ensure everyone in Sacramento has a roof over their head.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Public safety means everyone can enjoy our city’s neighborhoods and walk around midtown and downtown without worrying. We should feel safe in our communities and across the city. Supporters have called me the “fund public safety” candidate because I’ll prioritize programs that prevent poverty and violence, in addition to supporting emergency response. Sacramento went two years without any youth homicides. Then politicians cut the youth programs that prevented homicides, and we’ve seen violence rise. We must reinvest in programs that prevent violence and poverty in order to keep everyone safe.
Climate Change
My plan protects real public safety for all Sacramentans, which means focusing on things proven to keep our communities safe, including services for mental health and drug addiction, instead of relying exclusively on policing. When police show up to a scene it often means that public safety has already been violated and someone got hurt, which we need to minimize. The safest places in America focus on crime prevention, including measures to stop gun violence, expand mental health care, protect youth from trauma, fund affordable housing, and create opportunities for people to thrive.
In 2020, Councilmember Schenirer and I worked to pass a resolution redefining public safety that names public safety services as comprising police, fire, emergency medical services, citywide emergency management, and youth-centered prevention services. Did you know that Sacramento went two years without any youth homicides? During the pandemic, politicians cut the youth programs that prevented homicides, and we’ve seen a rise in youth violence since then. As mayor, I will prioritize expanding the programs that we know keep young people safe, engaged, educated, and healthy.
Sacramento City Teachers Association
Los Rios College Federation of Teachers
SEIU United Healthcare Workers West
SEIU 1021
SEIU 2015
Our Revolution
Working Families Party
Women Democrats of Sacramento
National Women’s Political Caucus
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100% Approved: Planned Parenthood of Mar Monte
Sacramento City Teachers Association
National Union of Healthcare Workers
Wellstone Democrats
Sacramento Sister Circle
Queer Democrats
Black Women Organizing for Political Action
Sunrise Movement
Social Justice PAC
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
Showing Up for Racial Justice
Higher Heights America
Democratic Socialists of America
Councilmember Mai Vang
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 6, 2024
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