JJ Galvez
Candidate for Assembly District 71
JJ Galvez is a Democrat running for Assembly District 71. It covers parts of south Orange County and west Riverside County. He faces voters in the November 2026 vote. Galvez was born and raised in Honduras. His mother taught kindergarten; his father was an insurance broker. He came to California on a college scholarship. He worked part-time jobs to pay for school. He built a career in tech consulting. He worked with both startups and big firms. He now lives in Silverado Canyon with his wife. Galvez got into local civic life by canvassing and voter outreach. He serves as an appointed director of the Silverado-Modjeska Recreation and Park District. This is his first run for state office. The California Democratic Party has backed him. Reps. Mike Levin and Dave Min back him too. Several sitting Assembly members back him. Local officials back him as well. Home: Silverado Canyon, Orange County, California. Occupation: tech consulting worker. Prior office: none held in elected state or local office. This is his first Assembly run. He now serves as an appointed director of the Silverado-Modjeska Recreation and Park District. That is an appointed post, not the office he seeks.
On the issues
- Economy & Jobs
Supports streamlining small-business permitting, tax holidays, and hiring incentives, and wants to promote career pathways in skilled trades and other fields seen as resilient to AI-driven job disruption.
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Focuses on lowering the cost of living by freezing gas tax increases and reducing construction material and prescription drug costs, rather than proposing broad state income/sales/property tax changes.
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports reducing housing construction costs through state-negotiated volume discounts on materials, incentivizing affordable housing development, and restricting housing speculation by private equity and foreign investors.
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Supports "common sense" gun-violence prevention laws and has received Moms Demand Action's 2026 Gun Sense Candidate distinction; also states general support for effective law enforcement as part of community safety.
Source → - Health & Health Care
Supports state negotiation of prescription drug prices, streamlined healthcare worker credentialing, and expanded, more affordable mental health services including youth mental health services, crisis response, and workforce development.
Source → - Reproductive & Social Issues
Has been endorsed by Equality California, an LGBTQ-rights advocacy organization, indicating alignment with its policy priorities, though no direct candidate statement on abortion or LGBTQ rights was found on the campaign site.
Source → - Education & Schools
Supports investment in teacher development, use of AI-assisted curriculum to build critical thinking skills, and expanding affordable higher education and skilled-trades pathways.
Source → - Family & Social Services
Supports expanding early childhood care and after-school programs, training more caregivers, and incentivizing employers to support child care.
Source → - Environment, Energy & Climate
Supports protecting water and air quality and preparing communities for wildfires, floods, earthquakes and landslides, including linking home-insurance discounts to fire-mitigation efforts; does not state a specific position on emissions targets or oil/gas/renewables policy.
Source → - Water & Natural Resources
Supports protecting water quality and factoring wildland/natural-resource impacts into housing and development decisions, without addressing water supply, groundwater management, or drought/conservation policy specifically.
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Emphasizes constituent accessibility, government accountability, data-driven decision-making, and bipartisan collaboration in office, citing his own cross-party record as a parks district board treasurer; no specific position on voting access, redistricting, or campaign finance was found.
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