By: the Editorial Board of Real America News Updated Oct 2022, 16: 30 pm EDT
The task of legislators is sometimes open, public. Replicated by the media. Popularized by supporters and opponents alike. That is when they attack the “big”, crucial or historical issues. And the task of legislators is also meticulous, that of small details, that of session after session after meeting behind the scenes to advance projects that not everyone knows, nor everyone understands, but that still have an impact on the life of the community. or whom the legislator represents.
Eloise Gómez Reyes, is both. As Democratic Majority Leader in the California Legislative Assembly since December 2020, the responsibility of this San Bernardino County activist extends to the entire California law. And her work also covers the daily lives of the community.
Such as the bill AB 2840 that he promoted and that prevents new warehouses from being built too close to urbanizations, homes, to schools, keeping them at least a thousand feet apart. Or the AB 2326 that streamlines communication between laboratories that analyze blood samples for lead and doctors, given the presence of lead in the blood of many children. Or the AB 2280, which would authorize the State Comptroller to establish a Voluntary Unclaimed Property Compliance Program to return property to its rightful owners.
The 19 in August, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 2022, which promotes and facilitates housing construction. It acknowledges that California has the second lowest homeownership rate in the country and the second largest homebuilding deficit, and that while the 68% of white families own their homes, among Latinos the proportion nationally is only 47% .
Precisely, the lack of affordable housing is a crucial issue for the population of the district of Eloise Gómez-Reyes.
In the Legislature from 2016, Eloise Gómez-Reyes is running for re-election as Assemblywoman for the district 50 of California, which includes the cities of Colton, where he is from, as well as the communities of Rancho Cucamonga, South Fontana, North Ontario, Bloomington, Loma Linda, and South Redlands, and parts of Fontana, Ontario, Rialto and San Bernardino.
Her rival in these elections is the Republican lawyer Sheela Stark.
More than 60% of the district’s population are Latino.
This is a recently redesigned district after the last population census and includes half of the areas covered by its previous district, the 47.
Eloise Gómez-Reyes was the first Latina to open her own law firm of attorneys in the Inland Empire and the first Latina Majority Leader in the California State Assembly (and only the fourth woman).
Born in 1956 in the same city of Colton that she represents today, she is the daughter of immigrants; she worked in the field for years to pay for her own tertiary education at San Bernardino Valley College, USC, and Loyola Law School, where she received her law degree.
For her public work, for the benefit of her legislation for the community, Real America News recommends her readers who live in her district to vote for the re-election of Eloise Gómez-Reyes to the California Legislative Assembly.