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Marisol Rubio
Marisol Rubio (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Senate to represent District 9. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Rubio completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Marisol Rubio pursued her undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her career experience includes working as a healthcare provider and educator.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for California State Senate District 9
Tim Grayson defeated Marisol Rubio in the general election for California State Senate District 9 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tim Grayson (D) | 52.0 | 193,558 |
 | Marisol Rubio (D)  | 48.0 | 178,776 | |
| Total votes: 372,334 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Senate District 9
Tim Grayson and Marisol Rubio defeated David Minor and Joseph Grcar in the primary for California State Senate District 9 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tim Grayson (D) | 59.3 | 103,121 |
| ✔ | | Marisol Rubio (D) | 40.3 | 70,043 |
| David Minor (R) (Write-in) | 0.2 | 410 | ||
 | Joseph Grcar (R) (Write-in) | 0.2 | 398 | |
| Total votes: 173,972 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2020
See also: California State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for California State Senate District 7
Incumbent Steve Glazer defeated Julie Mobley in the general election for California State Senate District 7 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Steve Glazer (D) | 66.0 | 339,925 |
| Julie Mobley (R) | 34.0 | 174,729 | ||
| Total votes: 514,654 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Senate District 7
Incumbent Steve Glazer and Julie Mobley defeated Marisol Rubio in the primary for California State Senate District 7 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steve Glazer (D) | 48.3 | 135,123 |
| ✔ | Julie Mobley (R) | 27.2 | 76,180 | |
| Marisol Rubio (D) | 24.4 | 68,362 | |
| Total votes: 279,665 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Marisol Rubio completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rubio's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a staunch defender of women’s reproductive and disability rights, I’m a founding Advisory Board Member for FemTruth Youth™ (a nonprofit for women’s reproductive health and education) and The Natalie Project (an advocacy fund for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities). I am the only candidate in this race that has been a lifelong Democrat and is unwaveringly 100% Pro-Choice and Pro-LGBTQIA+ rights.
In my current role as a San Ramon City Councilmember, I brought about the first ever Climate Action Task Force to inform the City’s Climate Action Plan and to charter a Sustainability Advisory Committee. I successfully advocated for improved access to Parks programs for seniors and people with disabilities, more workforce inclusionary affordable housing, and helped pass commonsense gun laws.- No human should be discriminated against because of who they are or their life circumstances. I will always fight for every person to have equal rights to jobs, housing, education, medical care, criminal and civil justice, safety, and privacy, regardless of their race, religion, sex, age, or gender identification.
- Now is the time to preserve a livable planet for our children, while creating union jobs and rebuilding our state’s crumbling infractructure. I will work to keep California to its 100% clean energy commitments, transition away from fossil fuels as quickly as feasibly possible, invest rapidly in clean energy, and create more transit, bicycle infrastructure, and safe walkable streets.
- Housing and healthcare are human rights. I am committed to making them affordable and accessible to all Californians. To meaningfully address poverty and crime, we must invest in bringing these necesities within everyone’s reach.
Defend women's access to reproductive rights and protect those seeking care in California.
Build more housing - especially affordable housing - near transit, downtowns, and places of employment.
Prioritize pre-K through college education and services that help the unhoused rebuild their lives.
Fund public safety and programs that help young people stay on the right path.
Preserve our open spaces, crack down on polluters, and enact bold climate initiatives.
Ensure that everyone has access to quality, affordable, and timely health care, including mental health care.
- National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW)
- California Teachers Association (CTA)
- Sierra Club
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU CA)
- Moms Demand Action
- California Environmental Voters (formerly the California League of Conservation Voters - CLCV)
- California Women’s List
- Our Revolution East Bay
- numerous Democratic Party clubs and caucuses
- Representative Ro Khanna, California 17th Congressional District
- numerous local elected officials throughout the district
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2020
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Marisol Rubio completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rubio's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Marisol experienced the unimaginable when her infant daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer. If not for Marisol's tireless advocacy on her daughter's behalf against an unresponsive and dismissive health care system, her daughter would not have survived.
Through this experience, Marisol saw firsthand the problems that exist within our healthcare and education systems and the importance of providing quality, affordable services. She put her background as a scientist and advocate to work for others, serving as a bilingual science teacher, special education tutor, health promotion officer, and disability student advisor.
Marisol has consistently dedicated her time to advocate for our community on the environment, gun safety measures, the housing crisis, and disability and worker rights. Now, she is ready to take her lifelong commitment of fighting for others to the State Senate.
Marisol graduated from UC, Berkeley with a major in Molecular and Cell Biology, Neurobiology emphasis and received the P.E.O. Women's Leadership Award.
- Education: I am standing by our public school teachers, students, and our public service providers by making sure teachers have a livable wage, raising our per pupil spending and classified staff, providing universal pre-K and affordable, quality college education and vocational training, and enabling our public service providers to effectively do their jobs.
- Health Care: People should not have to decide between paying for their basic needs and their life-saving treatments and medications. I am holding hospitals accountable for providing transparency and accountability. We must stop shareholders, big pharma, and insurance companies from profiting off the sick.
- Environmment: am boldly addressing our climate crisis and aiming to be carbon neutral by 2030, not 2050, by investing today in renewable energy, carbon capture efforts, and apprenticeship training for our union workers, restoring and protecting our Bay-Delta estuary, expanding our transportation systems, and laying the infrastructure for a green economy.
- Protecting workers' rights and rebuilding our middle class by supporting our small businesses and guaranteeing employees a livable wage
- Ensuring that every child's talents and skills are tapped into and optimized
- Teaching our children about social and cultural sensitivity so that we keep guns, discrimination and bullying out of our schools
- Making sure that our veterans and the most vulnerable amongst us, such as our elderly and disabled, have access to a fulfilling, dignified life and are protected from displacement
- Ensuring that the Bay Area remains home to people of all income levels and all ethnic and cultural backgrounds
- Expanding and ensuring the safety and reliability of our public transportation to reduce carbon emissions, ease traffic congestion, and improve our quality of life
- Getting Big Money out politics. That is why I am running a corporate-free campaign that is for and by the people.
We must demand more from our representatives!
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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 February 23, 2020
