Candidate · State Assembly, District 5
Joe Patterson
What this job does: Your district's vote in the 80-member California State Assembly. Members write and vote on state laws and the state budget, and with the Senate can place measures such as Props. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 43 on the ballot. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- Member of the California State Assembly, District 5 (since December 2022)
- Occupation
- Member of State Assembly, 5th District
- Lives in
- Rocklin
Background
- Earned a B.A. in government from California State University, Sacramento, and was a Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellow. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Served as executive director of the California Gaming Association. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Served on the Rocklin City Council, 2016-2022, including as mayor in 2019. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Took office in the Assembly on December 5, 2022. source: en.wikipedia.org
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