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Joanna Garcia Rose
Joanna Garcia Rose (Republican Party) (formerly Joanna Botelho) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 27. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Garcia Rose completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Joanna Garcia Rose was born in Concord, California. She earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture business from California State University, Fresno, in 2008 and a law degree from San Joaquin College of Law in 2013. Garcia Rose's career experience includes working as a farmer, contractor, tax auditor, real estate broker, and accountant.[1][2]
Elections
2024
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2024
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 27
Incumbent Esmeralda Soria defeated Joanna Garcia Rose in the general election for California State Assembly District 27 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Esmeralda Soria (D) | 53.9 | 75,559 |
 | Joanna Garcia Rose (R)  | 46.1 | 64,576 | |
| Total votes: 140,135 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 27
Joanna Garcia Rose and incumbent Esmeralda Soria advanced from the primary for California State Assembly District 27 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joanna Garcia Rose (R) | 50.9 | 29,457 |
| ✔ | | Esmeralda Soria (D) | 49.1 | 28,402 |
| Total votes: 57,859 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Garcia Rose in this election.
2014
Botelho ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent California's 16th District. Botelho was defeated in the blanket primary on June 3, 2014.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |
 Jim Costa Incumbent |
44.3% | 25,586 | |
| Republican | Johnny Tacherra |
21.7% | 12,542 | |
| Republican | Steve Crass | 15.4% | 8,877 | |
| Republican | Mel Levey | 7.9% | 4,565 | |
| Republican | Joanna Garcia-Botelho | 6.6% | 3,827 | |
| Democratic | Job Melton | 4.1% | 2,370 | |
| Total Votes | 57,767 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State |
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Joanna Garcia Rose completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Garcia Rose'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 graduated from CSU Fresno with a degree in Agricultural Business. In my early twenties, I put my degree to the test, farming corn, oat hay, and alfalfa while also running a water drilling business. I encountered a maze of unfair laws, regulations, fees, and taxes that make life impossible for the average farmer and their family. I watched the ‘water wars’ that stripped the value of my friend’s land. Despite my best efforts, I lost the farm - a heartbreaking experience shared by too many hardworking farmers in the Valley.
I landed back on my feet, pursuing a career as a tax auditor for the California Employment Development Department. During this time, I met my husband working at his small business in Merced. We started a family, and my life seemed to return to “normal.” Increasingly concerned about our state’s direction and discovering that the politicians in Sacramento were a big part of the problem. That’s when I decided to run for State Assembly, determined to turn our state around.- I am a professional auditor, and it’s my mission to investigate and make public the failures of the Democrat supermajority. I will audit the waste, fraud, and corruption at our state’s capitol.
- I’m running for Assembly to change the direction of our state before it’s too late, and that means changing who runs the state. What have we gotten from the liberal Democrat supermajority and Governor? Increased crime, homelessness, failing schools, higher gas, food, and housing prices.
- Joanna’s vision to uplift middle-class families and create more opportunities for hard-working people who want to get ahead. Joanna Garcia Rose believes to turn our state around, California needs to have a lower cost of living, more affordable gas prices, and a safer place to live and raise a family.
Changing the direction of our state before it’s too late, and that means changing who runs the state. That includes stopping the increasing crime, homelessness, failing schools, higher gas, food, and housing prices. To be part of a new generation of GOP officeholders who finally return some common sense to Sacramento.
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Transportation
Utilities and Energy
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2014
Botelho's campaign website listed the following issues:[4]
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| —Joanna Botelho's campaign website, http://www.botelhoforcongress.com/ | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Campaign website, "Meet Joanna," accessed April 16, 2014
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 27, 2023
- ↑ The New York Times, "California Primary Results," June 3, 2014
- ↑ Campaign website, "Issues," accessed April 16, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
