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Jeff Gonzalez

Republican, State Assembly
District 36, Coachella
Time in office:
  • Assembly: 2024-present

Bio

Jeff Gonzalez, 50, is a retired Marine, pastor and business owner. He surprised political insiders when he won his Assembly seat, long thought to be safely Democratic, after it was vacated by departing Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia. Gonzalez served 21 years in the Marine Corps and was deployed to combat zones four times. Gonzalez is a “global security and operations” consultant who says he became a pastor after seeing so many of his fellow Marines become suicidal after their deployments. He and his wife have four children, one of whom has cerebral palsy.

Alignment Meter

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Financials

This feature tracks three sources of money intended to help a candidate win election: 1-Money given directly to a candidate’s committee, 2-Money given to an Independent Expenditure Committee, 3-Money given to a political party. (NOTE: Senators are elected every four years. Twenty of the 40 Senators are on the ballot in even-numbered years, so Senators may do little or no fundraising in the first two-year session of their Senate term).

Election

This display shows money given directly to the incumbent’s campaign committee (NOTE: The industry categories for donors come from Open Secrets, a nonpartisan research organization for campaign finance. Some contributions are “uncoded,” meaning they have not been assigned to an industry sector. As a result, the total for each sector is also an estimate).

Agriculture

$3.8K

Construction

$11.3K

Defense

$100.0

Energy & Natural Resources

$250.0

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate

$1.0K

General Business

$1.0K

Government Agencies/Education/Other

$550.0

Ideology/Single Issue

$1.5K

Labor

$3.0K

Party

$509.0K

Transportation

$350.0

Uncoded

$154.6K

Unitemized Contributions

$2.3K

Candidate Donations

Individuals, corporations, organizations and committees are limited to a maximum donation to candidates of $5,500 for the primary and for the general elections.

Total
$688.7K

9.0% lower than the average legislators

Party Committees

This is independent expenditure money spent by political parties for advertising, grassroots mobilization or other activities targeting this candidate. Separately, political parties can give an unlimited amount of money directly to a candidate's campaign committee. Digital Democracy tallies that money under "candidate donations".

Total
$48.3K

Grand Total for Elections

$737.0K

2.0% lower than the average legislators

This is a total of the money to help this legislator win office including direct donations to the candidate, money from Independent Expenditure Committees and money from political parties.


Influence

There are three categories of donations to legislators after they are elected that encourage a working relationship between the donor and the legislator. The three categories are: 1-Gifts, 2-Travel, 3-Behests.

No personal gifts data found

Policy

Bills Authored by Jeff Gonzalez

Committees

Most of the policy work in the state Capitol is done in “Standing” committees. Legislators also work on budget subcommittees. There are also “Special” and “Select” committees with a more narrow topic focus. And there are “Joint” committees with members from the Senate and Assembly.

Interest Group Rankings

Hearings

Featured Comments

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District

View of map with yellow overlay for Assembly District 36 boundaries.
District 36 is a Safe Democratic District
Democratic Party candidate has a very high likelihood of winning in an election

Previous Election:

Jeff Gonzalez
51.8%
WON
Jose "Joey" Acuña Jr.
48.2%

Party Registration

Census Data

Median age0102030

Median age