Dallas Fowler
Template:TOCnestleft Dallas Fowler
Assembly run
Five Democrats and a Socialist Workers Party candidate will appear on the ballot for the May 18 2021 special election to fill the 54th Assembly District seat, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced.
The Democrats are Isaac Bryan, an educator and community organizer; Heather Hutt, a former state director for then-Sen. Kamala Harris; Dallas Fowler, a businesswoman and nonprofit executive; Samuel Robert Morales, a financial advisor and entrepreneur; and Cheryl C. Turner, an attorney and state commissioner.
Retail grocery worker Bernard Senter will appear on the ballot as a candidate with no party preference because there are not enough voters who have registered as members of the Socialist Workers Party for it to qualify as an official party.
The special election was necessitated when Sydney Kamlager won the March 2 special election to fill the 30th Senate District seat that was vacated by Holly Mitchell’s election to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.[1]
Dallas Fowler says she’s “not business as usual” and calls herself a “Progressive Democrat.” Her campaign literature ticks off her key issues—“housing as a right, funding thriving green jobs, stop the drilling in our community, single-payer healthcare, protect public education, mandate financial literacy, criminal justice reform, public banking, equality for all, combat human trafficking, and the rape kit backlog.” She also features a photo promoting her work to elect women statewide, showing her with Kamala Harris and Lieut. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, the latter of whom has endorsed Fowler. Other endorsers include State Treasurer Fiona Ma, Inglewood Mayor James Butts, lawyer Ben Crump, two L.A. School Board members, and Prof. Cornel West. Significantly, however, she lists no labor endorsements.
In bold type, she reminds voters, “Dallas was a Delegate for Senator Bernie Sanders in both 2016 and 2020,” and there’s a photo of the two of them together.[2]
Comrades
Bryan Giardinelli March 28 2019:
With Dallas Fowler, Jacqueline Stewart, Shawn Bernhizzle and Shawnee Badger in Los Angeles City Hall.