Member of the State Assembly, District 14

Buffy Wicks is the Democratic Assemblymember for this district. Before Sacramento she worked for six years on Barack Obama's campaigns and in his administration. She calls herself a lifelong organizer. She has served in the Assembly since 2018. She now chairs the Appropriations Committee, after two years chairing the Housing Committee. She has authored bills on housing production, keeping kids safe online, and protecting the social safety net.

She says she got into public service because she wanted to be part of the fight against injustice, and that her community deserves more than the status quo. In September 2026 the governor signed Adam's Law, a bill she wrote with another Assemblymember and a state senator to set new safety rules for AI chatbots used by children.

She promises to keep fighting the housing crisis and homelessness, protect children from online harms, and defend the social safety net for working families. She says she stands for honest leadership and results for her constituents.

Mark Rendon is the Green Party candidate. He taught music in Oakland public schools for 29 years. He served the Oakland teachers' union as a site representative, treasurer, secretary and executive board member. He has been a Green Party member since the early 1990s. He has not held elected office.

He says he is ready to bring a progressive voice to Sacramento. In 2001 he organized teachers and parents to persuade Oakland Unified to stop using toxic pesticides in its schools. The district adopted the change.

He promises free universal health care through a state single-payer plan, and what he calls social housing to reduce homelessness. He wants to block a proposed coal port in Oakland and change the plan for the Chevron refinery in Richmond. He says he will not take corporate or political-committee money, so he answers only to voters.