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district in the state with 28,000 students, managing 3,500 staff, and administering annual budgets of more than $100 million – all great experience to bring to Sacramento. She outlined her republican
priorities in her comments on the Governor’s 2016 state budget saying “Governor Brown’s record-setting budget proposal proves that California doesn’t have a revenue problem, and our state’s priorities can be funded without extending or raising taxes… We can’t take our roads and water delivery system for granted and must address these fundamental needs that are in distress.”
The Assembly Anthony Rendon (D- Lakewood)
was elected the 70th Speaker of the Assembly in January and just assumed his new duties this March, replacing
Assembly Member Toni Atkins. He is third- generation Mexican- American, the grandchild of immigrants who arrived starting in the 1920s. He grew up in Southern California and attended local colleges and universities. During his first term in office,
Anthony Rendon
Rendon chaired the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee and authored Proposition 1, the $7.5 billion state water bond supported by AGC, which voters passed by a wide margin in the November 2014 election. In addition to the water bond, Rendon passed bills on a wide range of topics reflecting his interests in early childhood education and the environment.
Rendon describes himself as a
“deep thinker” and has no trouble finding the philosophy section of the Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles that is wedged in the back of the shop. It started with Plato, who in chapter one of “Te Republic” asked a provocative question: What is justice? “I never really cared about the
circumference of a circle or who started the War of 1812,” Rendon said. “But if you’re asking what is justice or what is truth or what is beauty, that seems pretty important to me.” Philosophy held the same appeal to Rendon as the punk music he listened to in high school; it was about stripping the world down to the essential elements. Rendon’s time in Sacramento
coincides with a moment of enormous transition in the Capitol. He was part of the first class of legislators elected under longer term limits that enable tenures of up to 12 years in either chamber.
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