Octavio Aguilar (San Diego County Democratic Party Central Committee, California, candidate 2024)
Octavio Aguilar (Democratic Party) ran for election to San Diego County Democratic Party Central Committee in California on March 5, 2024.[1]
Elections
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Octavio Aguilar completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Aguilar'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 am a retired Administrative Law Judge and a graduate of San Diego State University and the Georgetown University Law Center. I currently serve as a member of the Democratic Party Central Committee, as a commissioner with the City of San Diego Police Practices Commission and as a member of the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-SDIC). Since I became a member of the Central Committee I have supported the Democratic party as a president of a Democratic club, served in a number of committees, made hundreds of phone calls and knocked on hundreds of doors to help elect good Democrats. After working for a number of years as an attorney representing farm workers and prosecuting unfair labor practices to support the labor rights of agricultural workers, I went to work as an Administrative Law Judge reviewing EDD decisions, mainly to make sure workers were not unfairly denied unemployment or disability insurance benefits. I retired after 23 years as a judge and since then I have done volunteer work preparing tax returns for seniors and low-income clients, registering people to vote, transporting donations to migrant shelters in Mexicali and Tijuana and helping migrants apply for asylum, in addition to my service for the Democratic party mentioned above.
- My main reason for running to be a member of the Central Committee is that I want to make sure the Democratic Party supports and promotes candidates who are committed to fighting for social justice, economic justice and environmental justice.
- As a member of the Central Committee I will continue to support the efforts of the Democratic Party and elected officials to work for better wages and better working conditions for all workers.
- I also plan to work to give our children the opportunity to get a good education and good jobs after they finish school.
An elected official must be honest and willing to be transparent about the actions he takes and the actions taken by the body to which they are elected when those actions affect the public.
The core responsibilities of a member of the Central Committee are to help the Democratic Party carry out its mission of supporting and promoting electable candidates and help lead the party with his work and his careful consideration of his votes while in office.
I am most passionate about protecting the right to vote and protecting the benefits for seniors, the disabled and the disadvantaged.
I will never forget the historical events that took place in 1968, when I was in college, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. It was also in that year that Cesar Chavez was leading a group of striking farmworkers and I supported him by helping him raise funds to feed the strikers.
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[1] ↑ Submitted to Ballotpedia's candidate survey in 2024.
