Raymond Riehle
Raymond Riehle (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 6th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Biography
Raymond Riehle was born in Inglewood, California. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1984. His career experience includes working as the owner of A-Applied Mailing Service, Inc., a distributor for NuEyes, an elected board member, and for Citrus Heights Water District. Riehle has been affiliated with Citrus Heights Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club of Citrus Heights, Toastmaster, and Notre Dame Club of Sacramento.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: California's 6th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House California District 6
The following candidates are running in the general election for U.S. House California District 6 on November 3, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Ami Bera (D) | |
 | Chris Bennett (D)  | |
| Kindra Pring (D) | ||
 | Christine Bish (R) | |
 | Craig DeLuz (R) | |
 | Raymond Riehle (R) | |
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2024
See also: California's 6th Congressional District election, 2024
California's 6th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 6
Incumbent Ami Bera defeated Christine Bish in the general election for U.S. House California District 6 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ami Bera (D) | 57.6 | 165,408 |
| Christine Bish (R) | 42.4 | 121,664 | |
| Total votes: 287,072 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 6
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 6 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ami Bera (D) | 51.8 | 76,605 |
| ✔ | | Christine Bish (R) | 20.1 | 29,628 |
| Raymond Riehle (R) | 10.7 | 15,779 | |
| Craig DeLuz (R) | 9.7 | 14,361 | |
 | Adam Barajas (D) | 5.9 | 8,711 | |
 | Chris Richardson (G) | 1.8 | 2,661 | |
| Total votes: 147,745 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Omba Kipuke (D)
- Bret Daniels (R)
- Marshall Martin (R)
Endorsements
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2022
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 7
Josh Hoover defeated incumbent Ken Cooley in the general election for California State Assembly District 7 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Josh Hoover (R) | 50.4 | 83,768 |
 | Ken Cooley (D) | 49.6 | 82,385 | |
| Total votes: 166,153 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 7
Incumbent Ken Cooley and Josh Hoover defeated Raymond Riehle, Jeffrey Perrine, and Quintin Levesque in the primary for California State Assembly District 7 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ken Cooley (D) | 50.9 | 56,949 |
| ✔ | | Josh Hoover (R) | 34.0 | 38,001 |
| Raymond Riehle (R) | 8.4 | 9,429 | |
 | Jeffrey Perrine (R) | 5.6 | 6,214 | |
| Quintin Levesque (R) | 1.1 | 1,249 | ||
| Total votes: 111,842 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2026
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2024
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Campaign website
Riehle’s campaign website stated the following:
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Ask yourself three questions:
Committees of the U.S. Congress / Congress.gov / Library of Congress websites show the current list of Standing Committees, Sub-Committees, Select Committees, Joint Committees, Special Committees, and Archived Committees. There are many laws and policies that pass through each of these committees. Ray has identified 7 areas he thinks are important to most Californians. They are all important, but he has laid them out in the order he finds most compelling. Please let Ray know what YOU think is most important, and WHY.
ECONOMY
PUBLIC SAFETY
EDUCATION
HEALTHCARE
INFRASTRUCTURE
NATIONAL SECURITY
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
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| —Raymond Riehle’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
2022
Raymond Riehle completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Riehle's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Ray attended public schools and after graduating from San Juan High School attended the University of Notre Dame and graduated with a BA in History.
Post college and before he became business owner, he worked for Nimbus Medical, Inc. Nimbus was a medical device company developing a type of artificial heart called the "Hemopump".
Ray has raised 4 children who went to local public schools. He is active in the Rotary Club, Local Chamber of Commerce, and Toastmasters and he served on the local school district Bond Oversight Committee.
For 7 years he has served as an elected board member of the Citrus Heights Water District. As a Board Member, Ray has worked with the other board members and with staff on the development of annual budgets and several significant projects. The most important project has been a long-term water main replacement program. The pipes that deliver water to customers have a limited life expectancy. By looking ahead 50 to 70 years, the CHWD will ensure that safe and affordable water will be available for future generations.
Ray’s experiences as a business owner, community leader, and Water Board Member have prepared him to be a thoughtful and effective member of the state legislature.- Public Safety is the foundation of a civil society. We must ensure that Law Enforcement has the resources to protect the public.
- We all have a real interest in the success of every student. Every child deserves an effective education that prepares them for college or a vocational training.
- The key to a great California is economic growth and job creation. One of the most important jobs of the legislature is to focus on issues that impact economic recovery and job creation. Taxes, fees, and assessments must be low, fair, stable, predictable. Restore control of economic development tools to local government.
There have been no new dams built in the last 50 years. In 2014, Proposition 1 was passed by a 2-1 margin authorizing the construction of new water storage and a more effective conveyance infrastructure. It included $2.7 Billion for water storage, dams, and reservoir projects. Since it was passed, we have gone though one severe drought and are now in a second with not one drop of new water storage built. The will of the people has been thwarted by a bureaucracy that blatantly follows their own agenda while ignoring state laws.
Every decision the state makes includes unfunded mandates on water districts which always leads to rate increases. AB 1668 and SB 660 were passed in May of 2018. These laws force the people to reduce water consumption to 50 gals per day by 2030. Water agencies will be responsible for ensuring that the overall water consumption meets he requirements. Water agencies will have to create water budgets for their customers. The costs of creating the water budgets will be borne by the customers. The exact process for creating a water budget is undefined. “Just Do It” is a great slogan for Nike. It doesn’t work quite as well when it is the direction coming from the state setting policies and procedures that impact 40,000,000 people.
My first paying job was delivering newspapers.
Through high school and college, I worked at a veterinary clinic as an assistant in the rooms and also in surgery. In college I worked in an encephalitis research lab mostly taking care of the laboratory animals. I also worked a couple of summers in a lumber yard.
After college, I took a job at Nimbus Medical, Inc., a medical device company that was developing an artificial heart. I was responsible for managing the laboratory space to allow the engineers to run a variety of experiments and tests on the devices. My experience as a veterinary technician was important because we were doing pre-clinical animal tests of the device. Being comfortable in a surgical setting was critical for the job.
My experience in the animal studies allowed me to be the prime author of the directions for use. Before the FDA gave approval for human trials, thousands of pages of data, protocols, procedures, informed consent, the directions for use, and manufacturing drawings and product details were submitted and reviewed.
After the device was approve for use in people, I became one of the trainers. I worked with physicians, nurses, and technicians teaching them how to set up and run the device. My part of the training class was about 4 hours of class work and hands on set-up and operations of the device. We also trained hospital staff on how to fill out and collect the necessary data to support the clinical trial.
As the trial moved forward, I had additional responsivities of reviewing and auditing patient data to ensure that the reports to the FDA were complete and accurate.
I worked at Nimbus for 6 years. When the device was sold, I worked 2 years as a part-time consultant for J&J and later Medtronic.
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 4, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Ray Riehle US Congress, “Issues,” accessed January 28, 2024
