Sandra Van Scotter
What this job does: Your district's one vote in the U.S. House. House members write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and every bill to raise taxes has to start in the House. A term is two years.
- Occupation
- Disability Community Advocate (ballot designation); direct support professional
- Lives in
- Ridgecrest
Background
- Worked as a respiratory therapist, including cardiac testing and sleep lab work, 1995-2021. source: kget.com
- Earned a respiratory care certificate from Waubonsee Community College in Illinois (1996). source: kget.com
- Member of a Kern Regional Center advisory committee since 2022; direct support professional since 2023. source: kget.com
- Originally from Chicago; has lived in the district about 11 years. source: kget.com
- Registered Democrat since 2025; previously registered with no party preference in California (2014-2025). source: kget.com
In their own words
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- "To be a voice in Washington for the families, workers, and communities" of the district source: kget.com
- "Their water, their hospitals, their schools, their farms, their family budgets" source: kget.com
- Work "alongside anyone — across any aisle" source: kget.com
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