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Judy Chu California 32

Special Election — California's 32nd District

Judy Chu has dedicated her life to improving the quality of life in the San Gabriel Valley. For the past 23 years, Dr. Chu has represented San Gabriel Valley neighborhoods as a local School Board member, Mayor and City Council member, State Assembly Member and as a member of the California State Board of Equalization.

As a member of the California State Board of Equalization, Dr. Chu works to close special interest tax loopholes, protect small businesses and to administer the collection of $53 billion in state taxes and fees.

In the California State Assembly, Dr. Chu passed legislation to protect victims of domestic violence, to crack down on hate crimes, to promote environmental justice and to modernize aging schools. Her tax amnesty program brought in over $4.8 billion in revenues to improve schools, health care and public safety. Served as Chair of the Assembly Appropriation Committee where she fought to protect student, seniors and the disabled from budget cuts.

As newly elected Member of Congress, Dr. Chu will fight for access and expansion of affordable and quality healthcare for our low-income families, seniors and the disabled. It is a fight she has carried on since her days in the Assembly, where she led the fight against cuts to MediCal, Healthy Families and the developmentally disabled. She authored bills to improve the ability for Medi-Cal and Healthy Family patients to stay at the community clinic of their choice, thus allowing low income people to access clinic locations with transportation, linguistically and culturally competent service, and more comprehensive care, such as dental and optometry services. She also carried legislation that established a 211 service line to improve access to health and social services programs for underserved communities.

As a former community college teacher, Dr. Chu knows first hand the difference education can make in helping citizens achieve the American dream, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic background.

In the Assembly, Dr. Chu authored legislation to provide low performing schools with $13 million in special federal funding to improve student achievement and to eliminate the current one-time restriction of eligibility for modernization grants, allowing school districts to apply for modernization funding every twenty-five years.

She led the fight at the State Board of Education to provide help in the curriculum for English language learner students. She also fought for increased state funding for immigrant students, championing the effort to bring in $30 million for supplemental instructional materials for English learners and $3 million for development of a standards-aligned primary language test for English learners services programs for underserved communities.

She has pledged to reform No Child Left Behind; a law with the right intentions that Dr. Chu feels has been plagued by inadequate funding promises and inadequate implementation.

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