Jun 11

June Monthly Meeting: Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. – Seven Cafe and Grill – 25 Shaw Avenue, Clovis (Shaw and Minnewawa)

Program Topic: Primary Election Results

California Results by Michael D. Evans
 
Michael D. Evans is an activist focused on saving democracy. He currently resides in San Francisco.

Michael has previously served as the chair of the Central California Coalition for Equitable Realignment (CCCFER), which monitors the redistricting process of legislative bodies in the Central Valley. He was a board member of Leadership for Jobs and a New Economy (LJANE), the Central Valley Partnership (CVP) and the Central Valley Progressive PAC. Moreover, he was on the Editorial Board of the Community Alliance newspaper. He has been a part of community groups advocating for immigration rights, women’s rights, the homeless and civility in media.

Michael has considerable experience with the Democratic Party in three states, most recently serving as precinct coordinator for the Kittitas County Democratic Party in Washington state. He was a county Democratic chair and state committee member in Fresno County (California) and Mecklenburg County (North Carolina).

For the 2020 election, Michael was an area director for the Central Valley with the California Democratic Party’s Coordinated Campaign. He previously was chair of the Fresno County Democratic Party (FCDP) for 10 years also serving as a delegate to the Democratic State Central Committee and a representative to the California Democratic Party E-Board.

He served two terms as chair of the statewide Federation of Democratic County Central Committee Members. Michael was involved in most of the Democratic clubs in Fresno County and previously served as president, secretary and parliamentarian of the Kennedy Club of the San Joaquin Valley; communications chair of the San Joaquin Valley Democratic Club; and Central Committee liaison with the Fresno County Democratic Women’s Club (FCDWC).

As chair of the FCDP, Michael served as spokesperson for the county Democratic Party to the media. He worked to build coalitions with progressive and community groups countywide and got the party engaged in local issues. His work with the FCDWC led to the FCDP and the FCDWC jointly opening the Democratic Party Headquarters in downtown Fresno. He is also a representative to the Fresno-Madera-Tulare-Kings Central Labor Council’s political directors’ group.

Michael has made numerous presentations to local organizations on a variety of topics related to greater involvement in the political process and progressive activism.

Michael was named the 2017 Democrat of the Year for Fresno County and has received the Kennedy Club’s Courage Award, the Fresno County Young Democrats’ Legacy of Leadership Award and the California Democratic National Committee Delegation’s Fighting Democratic Donkey Award. In 2015, he received the National Women’s Political Caucus’s “Good Guy” award and was roasted at a Democratic Party event featuring State Controller Betty Yee. In 2012, he was named Volunteer of the Year for California Democratic Party Region 8. 
Local Results by Lonny Johnson

Jun 10

LOVE IS LOVE

Jun 10

June 2, 2026 – Primary Election Results – Unofficial

Statewide Offices

Top two vote-getters advance to the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

Governor

Xavier Baccera (Democrat)
Steven Hilton (Republican)

Lieutenant Governor

Fiona Ma (Democrat)
Gloria Romero (Republican)

Attorney General

Rob Bonta (Democrat)
Michael E. Gates (Republican)

Secretary of State

Shirley N. Weber (Republican)
Don Wagner (Republican)

Treasurer

Elena Kounalakis (Democrat)
Jennifer Hawks (Republican)

Controller

Malia M. Cohen (Democrat)
Herb W. Morgan (Republican)

Insurance Commissioner

Jane Kim (Democrat)
Ben Allen (Democrat)

Superintendent of Public Instruction

Sonja Shaw (No Party Preference)
Richard Barrera (No Party Preference)

Board of Equalization, Seat 1

Shannon Grove (Republican)
Nelson Esparza (Democrat)

U.S. House of Representatives

District 5

Tom McClintock (Republican)
Michael Masuda (Democrat)

District 13

Adam Gray (Democrat)
Kevin Lincoln (Republican)

District 18

Zoe Lofgren (Democrat)
Shane Lewis (Republican)

District 20

Vince Fong (Republican)
Sandra Van Scotter (Democrat)

District 21

Jim Costa (Democrat)
Kyle Kirkland (Republican)

District 22

David Valadao (Republican)
Randy Villegas (Democrat)

State Senate

District 12

Nathan Magsig (Republican)
William Brown (Libertarian)

District 14

Esmeralda Soria (Democrat)
Darin DuPont (Republican)

District 16

Guillermo Gonzalez (Republican)
Melissa Hurtado (Democrat)

State Assembly

District 8

David Tangipa (Republican) — Unopposed

District 27

Mike Murphy (Republican)
Brian Pacheco (Democrat)

District 31

Annalisa Perea (Democrat)
Jim Polsgrove (Republican)

District 33

Alexandra Macedo (Republican)
Jim Polsgrove (Republican)

Fresno County Local Election Results

Candidates who win a majority of the votes win outright. If no candidate receives a majority, the top two vote-getters advance to the general election on Tuesday, November 2, 2026.

Superior Court Judge

Seat 3
Mark Kapetan

Seat 6 (Runoff — will go to general election)

Ashley Paulson
Steven R. Ueltzen

Seat 7 (Runoff — will go to general election)

Jeff Hamerschmidt
Jose L. Salazar

Seat 8

Daniel J. Brickley

Seat 9

Noelle E. Pebet

Seat 12

Jennifer L. Smith

Seat 14

Jennifer L. Hamilton

County Offices

County Superintendent of Schools

Michelle Cantwell-Copher
Eimear O’Brien

Supervisor, District 1

Mike Karbassi (Democrat)
Maria Pacheco (Democrat)

Supervisor, District 4

Margaret Mims (Republican)

Assessor Recorder

Paul Dictos

Auditor-Controller/Tax Collector

Oscar J. Garcia

County Clerk

James A. Kus

Fresno City Council

No. 1
Naindeep Singh
Rob Fuentes

No. 3

Joaquin Arambula (Democrat)
Keshia Thomas (Democrat)

No. 5

Brandon Vang (Nonpartisan)
Danielle Parra (Nonpartisan)

No. 7

Nav Gurm (Democrat)
Ariana Martinez Lott (Democrat)

Jun 09

Masuda for Congress

May 17

May monthly meeting: Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 6 p.m. at the Seven Cafe and Grill – 25 Shaw Avenue, Clovis.

Meeting Topic: Vote NO on Tax Payer Deception Act Ballot Measure

May Speaker: Amy Hines-Shaikh founded Wild Cat Consulting, LLC in June of 2018 after the Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court decision to help strengthen labor unions in the wake of right wing attacks. Kim Carter Martinez joined the partnership in February of 2020 to further the mission of racial, social and economic justice for all.

Amy was born in Cork, Ireland and immigrated to Aberdeen, Scotland at the age of three, and then immigrated again to the United States when she was six years old. Her father mixed drilling mud on oil rigs all over the world, which is why she very deeply believes in a just transition for fossil fuel workers to the green economy of the future. Her first concerted organizing effort was a petition targeting the Principal of her middle school to take down the display of a sexist poem in Sandy, Utah. In that case, collective action did not get the goods, but the Principal allowed Amy to display her own feminist poem next to the misogynist one.

After graduating from the University of Utah in Political Science and Women’s Studies, Amy gave herself a graduation present of getting arrested with the Shundahai Network at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in solidarity with the Shoshone people on Mother’s Day. This was first of many arrests throughout her life for social and economic justice issues. Later that year she went on to graduate school at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Labor Relations and Research and got to join her first labor Union – the UAW Local 2322 – and get health benefits for the first time since leaving Europe fifteen years prior.

Amy has worked for many Labor Unions within her career, including the UAW, SEIU, AFSCME, AFT, and CWA. She was a Legislative and Political Director for a statewide labor union for six years, and the Executive Director for another statewide labor union prior to that. Amy has many years of experience in all three sides of the “union triangle” – organizing, bargaining, and political affairs.

In 2015 Amy got her second Master’s degree in Organizational Development and Knowledge Management from George Mason University in Arlington, VA. In 2016 Amy joined the Democratic Party to vote for Bernie Sanders in the primaries and hasn’t looked back. She regularly serves as a delegate to the California Democratic Party.

When not working Amy is spending time with her husband and two children or reading with a cup of Irish breakfast tea in hand.

For more on Amy’s resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-hines-shaikh