Lou Correa

County of Orange

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-05-1996	Democratic	AD-69	24452	Loss
11-03-1998	Democratic	AD-69	23664	Win
11-07-2000	Democratic	AD-69	36581	Win
11-05-2002	Democratic	AD-69	25392	Win
11-07-2006	Democratic	SD-34	56534	Win
11-02-2010	Democratic	SD-34	88892	Win
11-08-2016	Democratic	CD-46	115248	Win
11-06-2018	Democratic	CD-46	102278	Win
11-03-2020	Democratic	CD-46	157803	Win
11-08-2022	Democratic	CD-46	78041	Win
11-05-2024	Democratic	CD-46	0

Candidate Biography:

Jose Luis Correa
Born: January 24, 1958 in Los Angeles, CA
Married: Dr. Esther Correa
Children, Alex, Andres, Adan, and Emilia

2000: Alternate Delegate, Democratic National Convention
2005-2006: Member, Orange County Board of Supervisors
2009: Opponent, Proposition 1E [Mental Health Services Funding] (Failed; 33.6%)
2015: Special Election Candidate for Orange County Board of Supervisors (Lost; 39.0%)
2015-2016: Consultant, CSU Fullerton

• LEGISLATION: Principal Coauthor of SB 400 (1999) [with Deborah Ortiz] which created new Public Employee Retirement System pension formula allowing a retirement benefit factor of 2% at age 55 increasing to 2.5% at age 63 and above. These more generous pension plans have resulted in a massive unfunded liability for CALPERS that is now (in 2012) estimated at $85 billion. (Chapt. 555, Stats of 1999)
• GOOD DEED: On March 23, 2016, Correa noticed a fire at an apartment complex in Santa Ana and, using a garden hose, had the fire mostly extinguished by the time the fire department arrived. He was credited with helping the seven people (three woman and four children under 5) in the apartment escape to safety.
• PRISON REALIGNMENT: Correa was the only Senate Democrat to vote against AB 109 (2011), the prison realignment bill (Anthony Portantino was the sole Democrat in the Assembly to oppose the bill). This legislation diverts defendants convicted of less serious felonies to serve their time in local county jail rather than in state prison. These less serious offenses are "non-serious, non-violent, and non-sex" crimes, for example commercial burglary, forgery, or vehicular evasion of a police officer by driving in the opposite direction of traffic.
• CLOSE CONTEST: Correa lost to incumbent Assemblyman Jim Morrissey by 93 votes in 1996. He ran again in 1998 and won by more than 5,000 votes.
• CLOSE CONTEST: Correa lost to Andrew Do by 43 votes in 2015.
• LEGISLATIVE PUNISHMENT: Correa was one of three State Senators locked out of their offices on March 12, 2007 by Senate President pro Tem Don Perata for attending a fundraiser in support of moderate Democrats in the Assembly.

Source: California Blue Book (2000)