I was elected to the State Assembly in 2012. As Assembly Speaker pro Tempore, I serve as the #2 officer and preside over legislative sessions.

I’ve authored 60 bills which are now law, including the first-in-the-nation DISCLOSE Act to reveal the true funders of ballot measures and candidates, universal vote-by-mail so every voter receives a paper ballot postage paid, temporary license plates to stop bridge toll evaders and strengthen public safety, and a sales tax exemption to speed deployment of zero-emission transit buses.

I brought home over $1 billion to combat sea level rise and climate change, pushed for affordable housing, and clean transportation.

My experience includes owning a small business, serving as aide to the Honorable Jackie Speier and as a local mayor and councilmember, and host on Peninsula-TV.

I am a San Mateo County native and a fourth generation Californian. My wife Jessica and I are raising our twin boys in South San Francisco. I graduated from Junipero Serra High School and the University of San Francisco, received an M.P.A. degree from San Francisco State University, and studied leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

My legislative priorities remain ensuring shared economic prosperity by addressing needs for affordable housing, transportation infrastructure, and early childhood education, as well as readying our county for climate change, strengthening our elections processes, and defending our democracy.

In her endorsement of my candidacy, Congresswoman Jackie Speier asserted that “Experience matters”.

With housing out of reach for so many, healthcare, child care, and higher education continuing to increase in cost, and inflation making everything from groceries to gas more expensive for all of us, I will bring deep experience and proven leadership to Congress.

To address the sky-high cost of housing, I passed bills that prioritized local affordable housing for state housing funds and made it easier to build housing for teachers. In Congress, I will fight to increase funding for federal housing assistance and tax credits. And I will fight for real tax fairness where billionaires pay their fair share and an economy that works for all with equity at the center.

I am running for Congress to fight for the future of our democracy and the planet. In the Assembly, I fought for and won funding for wetlands restoration and climate resiliency - the largest resiliency investment in California history. 

In Congress, I will work to ensure the country follows California’s lead to end the sale of new gasoline motor vehicles by 2035 and to electrify public transit as CalTrain plans to do in its modernization plan.

Elections reform and strengthening our democracy have been my top priorities in the Assembly. In Congress, I will continue to defend our democracy from those who ignore the will of the people and the rule of law. ​

I authored the first-in-the-nation DISCLOSE Act to put a stop to “dark money” and reveal the true funders of ballot measures and candidates. I passed universal vote-by-mail, so every voter receives a paper ballot postage paid, resulting in record participation and turnout. I was also a co-author of the landmark law automatically registering Californians to vote.

I am currently Supervisor of District 5 in San Mateo County. I serve as a commissioner on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a director on the City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG), the Vice Chair of the San Mateo County Transportation Authority, and as a Director on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District representing 20 cities. I also serve on boards such as the Health Plan of San Mateo, San Mateo County Medical Center, the Commission on Aging, Community Corrections Partnership, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments.

I previously served on the Daly City Council from 2008 through 2016 and I also served as Mayor in 2014. I have a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco in Politics and graduated from Skyline College in San Bruno before that. I graduated high school from Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep in San Francisco. I served as a legislative aide in the California State Assembly prior to running for the Daly City Council.

I am running for congress to restore faith in Congress. I believe if Washington invests in communities, cities, and counties again with spending and policies that voters can see with their own eyes, faith can be restored in Congress.

My focus is to not only listen to the voices of our community members but empower and amplify their voices. I am not an establishment candidate who has spent the past two years in the Assembly or Congress. I am a grassroots candidate who wants to serve one of the most diverse Congressional districts in the United States and to ensure their voices are amplified in the halls of Congress.

During the past two years of the pandemic, the most challenging times any of us have ever encountered, I feel like I helped inspire the county’s residents to do everything in our power to save lives, prevent illness and to help our hard-hit businesses to recover. It’s enabled me to have the confidence to represent our county’s values in Washington DC.

A tireless and relentless advocate for the Peninsula, Emily Beach has dedicated her life to public service. As a Democratic leader, Emily is known for taking on tough conversations, tough problems and tough votes. You'll always know where Emily stands — and that her door is always open to you. 

Emily developed strong leadership and team-building skills during her military service in the U.S. Army. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame as an ROTC scholarship student, Emily was stationed in Saudi Arabia,Korea, and Texas, rising to the rank of Captain and earning the U.S. Army Airborne parachutist badge. 

Before holding elected office, Emily fought for immigrants’ rights and organized volunteers to fundraise for local K-8 public schools and access to preschool. She also had a successful career in the tech industry as a Silicon Valley business executive, bringing practical private sector experience to her work as an elected official. 

Emily was elected to the Burlingame City Council in 2015 and re-elected in 2019. As Mayor of Burlingame during the pandemic, Emily led the successful effort to increase the minimum wage and expanded investment in bike lanes and public transit to better serve the Peninsula’s working families. She champions shoreline protection, open space, affordable housing, the LGBTQ+ community, and people of color. 

To address the significant challenges our community faced during the most difficult period of the pandemic, Emily founded The Burlingame Collaborative, bringing diverse stakeholders together to find local solutions to our toughest issues, combating isolation for seniors and expanding access to the local food bank for our most vulnerable neighbors. 

Emily is an inspiring, grass-roots leader who knows that we solve problems best when we solve them together, bringing a practical and inclusive approach to government service. From her first day in office, Emily hosted constituent listening events in local coffee shops and wrote regular newsletters to keep constituents updated on news that impacted them. During the pandemic, she hosted 25 virtual listening and information-sharing events— including weekly events as Mayor during shelter-in-place. 

Emily serves as Chairperson of the San Mateo County Transportation Authority (SMCTA) Board of Directors, and as a Member of the League of California Cities State Board of Directors. A strong public transit advocate, Emily rides her bike and takes public transit to work. 

As a mother of two teenagers, Emily understands what it takes to go to work every day, fight for pay equity

in her own work, manage a household, and meet a family budget in one of the most expensive regions of the country. She knows what it feels like to worry about her children’s future, their online safety and privacy, their mental health, and the planet we are leaving them. 

I have lived in the CA-15th Congressional District for over thirty-two years to include the San Francisco Portola District and the City of San Carlos. I am married and the father of three. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a master’s degree in Public Administration from San Francisco State University. I was a Police Officer for thirty-three years and retired as a San Francisco Police Department Inspector (Detective). During my last fifteen years of employment with SFPD, I worked in the Night Investigations Major Crimes Unit as an Inspector. Night Investigations was a graveyard shift, plain clothes, citywide. I took pride in protecting and serving my community throughout my career and would like to continue my public service as your congressional representative in District 15. Issues and priorities that are important to me include the health of our current economy, crime, the opioid fentanyl epidemic, and homelessness.

Ferenc Pataki was born and raised in the People's Republic of Hungary, located in central Europe, which was a socialist country until 1989, now part of the European Union and NATO.

Ferenc Pataki legally immigrated to the United States of America at the age of 20 back in 1984 and lived about three decades in our beautiful San Mateo County, now residing in East Palo Alto. All five of his children were born in Redwood City and have many wonderful memories there.  

He is a REALTOR®, a small business owner and an Accountant. 

He still remembers stories he heard from his mom (now she is 93 years old, still living in Hungary) that during the 1950's, the socialist government, without compensation, took her parents' 170 acres of land. To put that into perspective, that land was just a little bigger than Candlestick Park. The socialist government also took some land from the grandparents on his father side. The point is, that socialism does not work, otherwise, Hungary would still be a socialist country. He hopes that his beloved United States of America will never turn into a socialist nation.

He is forever grateful for the United States of America that he can call her home.

We need permanent solutions to our problems and to achieve that, our government must control our money supply and the issuance of our money as it was meant to be in our Constitution. Since 1913 the privately held Federal Reserve is in control of our money supply and the issuance of our money. Reforming our monetary system will create a domino effect in a positive way and every public issue that can be solved with money will be solved. As a result of the proposed monetary reform, people will pay less taxes and our government will stop borrowing money. People are the most productive in their line of work and well balanced in their personal lives, when they are not under financial pressure and by lowering all taxes will ease some of that financial pressure on all taxpayers. I will persuade and

bring both major political parties together to overhaul our monetary system, so we can: bring inflation under control to stabilize our economy, lower the crime rate, because we all deserve living in safe neighborhoods and build more affordable housing, because nobody should be homeless.