Rhodesia RansomIncumbent
Candidate for Assembly District 13
Rhodesia Ransom is the Democratic incumbent for California's 13th Assembly District. This is her district, and it includes Stockton, Tracy, and Mountain House. She was sworn in on December 6, 2024. She won the November 2024 election with 78,071 votes (56.9%), according to the certified Statement of Vote. She holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science, from San Francisco State University. She also holds a graduate degree in public administration and public policy, from Golden Gate University. Before she joined the Legislature, Ransom was elected to the Tracy City Council in 2016 and served until 2020. She says she helped get funding for Tracy's first permanent homeless shelter. She also says she helped fund Tracy's first affordable-housing project in about two decades. She founded a nonprofit group too. It gives youth mentoring, and it works to stop gangs. It also gives mental-health counseling. It works with local school districts. She has held roles with a few other groups. These include Emerge California, where she was the chair. They also include United Way and the San Joaquin Partnership. In the Legislature, she brought forward AB 13 on her very first day in office. This bill aims to bring more oversight to the California Public Utilities Commission, and it also aims to bring more transparency. She lives in San Joaquin County, with her husband and their three kids. Home: Tracy, in San Joaquin County, California. Occupation: she is a California State Assemblymember, for District 13. Prior office: she has been the incumbent since December 2024. Earlier, she was a Tracy City Council member, from 2016 to 2020.
On the issues
- Taxes & Cost of Living
Ransom has focused on utility affordability, introducing legislation to increase oversight and transparency of utility rate increases rather than proposing broad tax changes.
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Ransom supports increasing housing supply at multiple income levels and a multi-pronged approach to homelessness that combines shelter capacity with addressing underlying causes like substance use and mental illness.
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Ransom supports increased resources and staffing for law enforcement, gang-prevention programs, and giving emergency services more local control, citing rising crime and retail theft as problems with current approaches.
Source → - Environment, Energy & Climate
Ransom has engaged on wildfire response coordination, joining Assembly leadership and colleagues to meet with firefighters on emergency response and recovery after destructive wildfires, though no broader climate or energy platform was found.
Source → - Water & Natural Resources
Ransom opposes a federal/state proposal to divert more Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water for southward transfer, citing harm to the Delta region's communities, farmers, businesses, wildlife, and tribal cultural practices.
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Ransom emphasizes government transparency and accountability, and believes legislators should have prior practical experience working with or in government before serving.
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