Ashley swearengin vs betty yee biography
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Ashley Swearengin
American politician
Ashley Emile Swearengin (née Newton;[1] born May 24, )[2][3] is an American politician who served as the 24th mayor of stad i kalifornien, California. She is Fresno's second kvinnlig mayor. She was first elected in a run-off election in and was re-elected in Swearengin ran for State Controller in [4] After leaving the mayor's office, she became the president/CEO of the Central Valley Community Foundation.[5]
Early life and education
[edit]Swearengin was born in Texas and raised in Arkansas. Her family moved to stad i kalifornien in She graduated from Fresno Christian High School[6] and subsequently attended California State University, Fresno.
Swearengin holds a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) and a Master of Business ledning (summa cum laude) from California State University, stad i kalifornien. Her husband, Paul, and she have two children, Sydney and Samuel.[7]
Early career
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Endorsement: Betty Yee deserves another term as California’s controller
When Democrat Betty Yee ran for state controller four years ago, we weren’t persuaded that she was better prepared for the post than her Republican opponent, Fresno’s then-Mayor Ashley Swearengin, whom we endorsed. Yee won, of course, and we’re pleased to acknowledge that she has performed her official duties well. We enthusiastically endorse her for reelection.
The choice was made even easier by the doldrums in which the California Republican Party has found itself. This is yet another statewide race in which the best the Republicans could come up with is a candidate — Anaheim businessman Konstantinos Roditis — with little public service history, no statewide name recognition, comparatively few donors (his campaign is primarily self-financed) and a limited sense of how the office that he seeks actually works. Roditis also is pushing a hare-brained “trickle up taxation” proposal to have local governments
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Facing long odds in unseating a popular governor, the California Republican Party has looked to an obscure financial post as a chance for a rising GOP star to win statewide office.
Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin says voters should cross-party lines to elect an outsider who helped saved a city from the brink of bankruptcy. Betty Yee, a Democratic member of the state tax board, is running for state controller as an apolitical expert in state finances.
The controller's primary job is managing the state's cash flows. The post also doubles as a financial watchdog by auditing various government programs, deciding whether budgets are balanced. The controller also sits on dozens of boards that oversee public pensions, land use and the coastline.
NAME - Betty Yee
AGE-BIRTH DATE-BIRTHPLACE - 54; Oct. 19, ; San Francisco.
PARTY - Democratic.
EXPERIENCE -Served on the Board of Equalization since Formerly a top budget official in Gov. Gray Davis' administ