Help us improve in just 2 minutes—share your thoughts in our reader survey.
Maria Cadenas
Maria Cadenas (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Senate to represent District 17. She lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Cadenas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Cadenas earned her B.A. in business and creative writing from Beloit College in 2000 and her MBA from Alverno College in 2010.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for California State Senate District 17
John Laird defeated Vicki Nohrden in the general election for California State Senate District 17 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Laird (D)  | 64.7 | 320,090 |
 | Vicki Nohrden (R) | 35.3 | 174,587 | |
| Total votes: 494,677 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Senate District 17
John Laird and Vicki Nohrden defeated Maria Cadenas and John M. Nevill in the primary for California State Senate District 17 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Laird (D) | 44.4 | 138,986 |
| ✔ | | Vicki Nohrden (R) | 31.5 | 98,649 |
 | Maria Cadenas (D) | 20.9 | 65,525 | |
 | John M. Nevill (D) | 3.2 | 10,040 | |
| Total votes: 313,200 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Maria Cadenas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cadenas' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
- I am the only Democratic woman, Latina, and only candidate who will not accept corporate money running for State Senate District 17.
- People and Planet First!
- Maria is not a career politician; she is someone who has worked on the ground to stand up for families on the Central Coast.
Two months ago, my 10-year-old daughter asked that we use less plastic to save the earth. No 10-year-old should have to carry the weight of saving our planet. It is up to us to address climate change, the most urgent problem facing us. It is an issue deeply impacting our planet and all of us that live on it. It critically affects our hospitality, agriculture, and energy industries.
Housing
We must ensure our families are not priced out of their family homes and neighborhoods. Too many of us are spending 50% or more of our income on housing or living in overcrowded conditions. I've spoken to parents who have seen their children and grandchildren move out of state because they could no longer afford to live here.
Healthcare
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 5, 2020.
