Summary
The 2024 United States House District 14 election in California will be held on November 5, 2024. The seat is currently held by John Duarte.
The two leading candidates are Adam Gray– Democrat and John Duarte – Republican.
John Duarte, who flipped the district and was elected with 50.2% of the vote in 2022.
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News
Los Angeles Times, – April 26, 2024
California House Districts 13, 22, 27, 41, 45, and 47.
Over 2,000 miles west of the nation’s Capitol, the battle for control of the House of Representatives in 2025 is being waged in farmland along Highway 99, fast-growing commuter communities north and east of Los Angeles and Orange County beach towns and inland suburbs.
While Republicans currently have a razor-thin majority in the House, partisan makeup of next year’s Congress will almost certainly be decided this November — at least in part — by a handful of hypercompetitive California races.
California “is, along with New York, one of the two most important paths to potential Democratic control of the House,” said Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
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John Duarte
Current Position: Farmer, businessman of District 13
Affiliation: Republican
District: all of Merced County; most of the population of Madera County; and parts of Stanislaus, Fresno, and San Joaquin Counties. It includes the cities of Merced, Madera, Ceres, Patterson, Lathrop, Chowchilla, Atwater, Coalinga, and Mendota; as well as the southern parts of both Modesto and Turlock.[
John Scott Duarte is an American politician, businessman, nurseryman, and pistachio farmer. In 1989, Duarte began his career as a vice president of sales for Duarte Trees & Vines, which was founded by his parents in 1988. In 2007, he became the company’s chief executive officer and president.
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Adam Gray
Adam C. Gray is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat who represented the 21st Assembly district, encompassing all of Merced County and portions of Stanislaus County.
Born: 1977 (age 46 years), Merced, CA
Party: Democratic Party
Spouse: Cadee Condit Gray
Candidate for: 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in California
Previous campaigns: US House Elections in California, 2022, California State Assembly District 21 General Election, 2020
Previous office: California State Representative (2012–2022)
Education: University of California, Santa Barbara, Merced College
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Issues
John Duarte
Adam Gray
Water and Agriculture
Defeated AB 2639, a bill that would have accelerated the adoption of the State Water Grab, officially known as the update to the Bay-Delta Plan, and jeopardized water storage projects like Sites Reservoir.
Ensured that $2.75 billion would be included in the 2014 water bond for storage. Without that leadership, funding for storage would have been zero.
Organized the 2018 rally that saw 1,500 Valley residents converge on the Capitol steps to protest the State Water Grab.
Led the Valley’s efforts to have SB 1 vetoed, which would have taken vast amounts of water used for growing food and drinking into the Delta.
Continues to demand California recognize hydroelectricity as renewable energy, creating incentives for modernization and expansion of generation capacity as brown outs once again threaten our state.
Restored state funding for FFA chapters serving 83,500 high school students.
Education
Secured $2 million for Stanislaus County’s Office of Education to create the VOLT Institute in Modesto, providing high-skill job training and serving as a pipeline to jobs at companies such as E.&J. Gallo Winery, Del Monte Foods, Foster Farms and Crystal Creamery.
Secured funding to build the Ag Tech Building at Merced College.
Carrying legislation to fund schools based on enrollment, not attendance.
Secured $500,000 for after-school programs at Stanislaus and Merced Boys & Girls Clubs.
Supported $2.7 billion to offer transitional kindergarten to all 4-years-olds by 2025. Serving 400,000 students, it will be California’s version of universal preschool.
Supported more than $100 million in school-based health centers, bringing healthcare into schools – including mental health care.
Public Safety
Secured funding to create the VIPER program, resulting in the arrest of 50 gang leaders and confiscation of weapons and ammunition from the streets. This cut the county’s murder rate in half in the first year.
Wrote the bill to crack down on theft of parts from irrigation pumps and farm equipment.
Wrote a bill to eliminate the Ticket Tax – a 20% surcharge on traffic fines that goes entirely into the General Fund and does not support any specific program.
Secured $1 million to bolster UC Merced law enforcement after an attack on campus linked to ISIS.
Carrying AB 2682 – supported by district attorneys, police chiefs, sheriffs and others in law enforcement – to fight catalytic converter and organized retail theft.
Opposed zero bail, which voters also rejected as Prop 25.
Opposed Prop 47, which reduced sentencing, allowing criminals to return to communities before rehabilitation had been completed.
Worked across the aisle to advance a bill making the theft of any firearm a felony regardless of its financial value to reverse a critical mistake created by Prop 47.
Opposed Prop 57, that allowed early prison release and is now linked to retail theft rings.
Worked with law enforcement to ban the use of the chokehold that killed George Floyd without jeopardizing officer safety.
Veterans
Named the first ever Legislator of the Year by the Military Officers Association of America.
Named the Leo P. Burke Legislator of the Year by the American Legion, Department of CA.
Carried legislation to eliminate tax on veteran retirement pay.
Supported legislation creating veterans license plates and driver’s licenses.
Wrote legislation to protect property tax exemption for veterans’ halls that serve alcohol.
Wrote legislation to create license reciprocity with other states so that professionally licensed veterans can work in California without barriers or unnecessary testing.
Passed a law making it much easier for military veterans to transition into jobs in the water industry.
Secured funding to construct 21 units of permanent supportive housing for Veterans who have experienced chronic homelessness in Merced.
Healthcare
Secured $220 million to build a medical education building at UC Merced and $18 million per year to operate the program which will enroll its first class of future doctors in 2023.
Secured more than $100 million to fund new graduate medical residency positions throughout the Central Valley.
Wrote legislation that doubled operating hours for health clinics, meaning working families have more access to doctors, nurses and care.
Secured coverage of continuous glucose monitors under Medi-Cal. Prior to this effort, Medi-Cal was the only health insurer in California that did not cover continuous glucose monitors despite serving the most vulnerable population in the state.
