Roy Ashburn

CA State Assembly

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-05-1996	Republican	AD-32	86790	Win
11-03-1998	Republican	AD-32	73285	Win
11-07-2000	Republican	AD-32	96178	Win
11-05-2002	Republican	SD-18	153878	Win
11-02-2004	Republican	CD-20	53231	Lose
11-07-2006	Republican	SD-18	147767	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: March 21, 1954 in Long Beach, CA.
Divorced: Diane
Children: Shelley, Shannon, Stacy and Suzy

1972-1977: Field Representative, Supervisor LeRoy Jackson
1979-1983: District Representative, Congressman Bill Thomas
1984-1996: Member, Kern County Board of Supervisors
1988: Chair, Kern County for George Bush Presidential Campaign
2009-Present: Member, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
2010: Early Primary Candidate for SBOE-02 (Withdrew)
2010: Potential Early Primary Candidate for CD-20 (Did not run)
2010: Proponent, Proposition 13 [Property tax: seismic retrofitting] (Won; 84.5%)

• LEGISLATION: Author of Proposition 13 (2010) [Property tax: new construction exclusion: seismic retrofitting]
• Ashburn was the youngest elected Kern County Supervisor (until 2003).
• In 2009, Ashburn was the target of two attempted recalls led by Michael Moore and more than 50 others. The recalls failed to qualify for the ballot.
• Ashburn was the first openly gay Republican to serve in the state legislature.

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