Benito Barrios
Candidate for City Council Member, San Bernardino, District 2
Benito J. Barrios is a San Bernardino native who attended Pacific High School and enlisted in the Marine Corps five days after graduation, serving 16 years as a radio operator and radio chief with deployments to 10 countries, including Iraq; he received the Navy Marine Corps Commendation Medal and the Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medal. After his military service he attended San Bernardino Valley College and the University of Phoenix. He was elected to the San Bernardino City Council in 2013 and served through 2018, a tenure during which he helped lead the city out of bankruptcy and worked to ensure displaced city trash-department employees were hired by the incoming contractor, Burrtec. Since 2011 he has worked in insurance, first as a life insurance broker with PHP Agency, where he now serves as Marketing Director. He is Junior Vice Commandant of Marine Corps League Detachment 1459 and Inland Empire Regional Director for the California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Positions in brief
Benito Barrios's platform draws on his prior council tenure's focus on public safety, housing, and job creation.
During his 2013-2018 council service, Barrios focused on public safety, housing, and job creation, and points to that record — including his role helping lead the city out of bankruptcy — as the foundation for what he would bring back to the role.
On the issues
Points to his prior council tenure's focus on public safety as central to what he would bring back to the role.
Source →Points to his prior council tenure's focus on housing as central to what he would bring back to the role.
Source →Points to his prior council tenure's focus on job creation as central to what he would bring back to the role.
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