# Member of the State Assembly, District 19 Compare records and positions simply between Philip Louis Wing or Catherine Stefani for Member of the State Assembly, District 19 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term). - Jurisdiction: California Legislature - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-19 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 24, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 89 out of 100 (Strong), across 8 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Philip Louis Wing** — Retired Financial Advisor · Republican - **Catherine Stefani** — Assemblymember · Democratic · Incumbent Assemblymember Catherine Stefani took 83.0% of the June 2 vote and Republican Philip Louis Wing took 17.0%; they were the only two candidates on the primary ballot. The district covers western San Francisco. The winner holds one of 80 Assembly seats for a two-year term, inside a 12-year lifetime cap on service in Sacramento. An Assemblymember authors bills, sits on the policy committees that decide which bills advance, and argues for the district's share of the annual state budget. A first-term member is still building the committee position that determines how much of that agenda actually moves. This is a two-candidate race with a wide June margin and a marked difference in how much each candidate has made public. One has a first-session legislative record and a fully funded campaign; the other declined a local voter-guide questionnaire and has no reported fundraising. Weigh the incumbent's record on its own terms, and weigh how much you are prepared to decide about an opponent who has published little. ## Catherine Stefani Catherine Stefani, a Democrat, is the sitting Assemblymember for District 19 and a former San Francisco supervisor. She sits on the Budget, Elections, Health, Judiciary and Local Government committees and co-chairs the Assembly Legislative Ethics committee (assembly.ca.gov). In September 2026, ICE detained Ho Yin Mo, a field representative on her staff, at a Las Vegas airport; federal officials said he had overstayed a visa (The San Francisco Standard). Stefani called him "a selfless public servant and a valued, legal employee of the California state Legislature" and pressed for his release (The San Francisco Standard). Her campaign frames her work around "Making California safer" and "making California more affordable" (campaign site). She says "a better California begins right here in our neighborhoods" (campaign site). **Strengths:** A committee list spanning budget, judiciary, elections and health, plus years on the Board of Supervisors before this seat. **Trade-offs:** One term in the Legislature is a short record next to her years in city government, however active it has been. **Keep in mind:** This September she publicly pressed federal authorities to release a detained staff member, a stance you can weigh as part of her record. ## Philip Louis Wing Philip Louis Wing, a Republican, is the only other candidate on District 19's ballot and describes themselves on the ballot as a retired financial advisor. They have been registered with a Republican party preference in San Francisco since 2016 (Ballotpedia). No campaign website or news coverage of their platform could be located. GrowSF's 2026 candidate questionnaire notes that "contact information for candidate was unavailable, and we could not send them a questionnaire" (GrowSF). No stated priorities for this campaign could be located. **Strengths:** Wing gave this district a contested race rather than an uncontested one. **Trade-offs:** They have no record in office and no published platform to judge. **Keep in mind:** No campaign website or news coverage of their platform could be located, and GrowSF could not even find contact information to reach them for its questionnaire. ## Record in office Philip Louis Wing has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Catherine Stefani (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 13 of them signed into law. Per the California Legislature's public bill data (leginfo bulk download), retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Record details Stefani — AB 836 (2025): Midwifery Workforce Training Act. Stefani — AB 1363 (2025): Protective orders: Wyland’s Law. Stefani — AB 627 (2025): California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **Catherine Stefani** - Primary: $1,012,471 raised (Small donors: $1,236; Individuals: $222,657; PACs & committees: $421,294; Businesses & other orgs: $360,950) - November: $60,800 raised (Individuals: $19,700; PACs & committees: $15,400; Businesses & other orgs: $25,700) Philip Louis Wing has no contributions reported to Cal-Access for this race. Figures are CA Form 460 filings through June 30, 2026 by committees controlled by each candidate, and can include transfers from a candidate's earlier committees. Semi-annual reports covering January–June 2026 were due July 31, 2026, so some totals lag a period behind. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-09-21. Philip Louis Wing has no itemized contributions dated after the June 2, 2026 primary reported to Cal-Access yet. Total is itemized (Schedule A) contributions and self-funding loans dated after the June 2, 2026 primary, through June 30, 2026 — small-dollar unitemized (under $100) contributions aren't independently dated in Cal-Access's raw export, so they aren't reflected here and this may undercount true small-donor activity since the primary. This also doesn't include money reported only on 24-hour late-contribution reports (Form 497) that haven't yet appeared in a periodic Form 460 filing. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-08-30. ## Review notes - Catherine Stefani for Assembly and GrowSF may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)](https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/primary-election-june-2-2026/statement-vote) 2. [Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary](https://ballotpedia.org) 3. [GrowSF — June 2026 San Francisco candidate questionnaires](https://growsf.org/voter-guide/questionnaires/june-2026/philip-louis-wing/) 4. [California State Assembly — Catherine Stefani member page (committee assignments)](https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers/19) 5. [Catherine Stefani for Assembly — campaign site (priorities)](http://votecatherinestefani.com/) 6. [The San Francisco Standard — "SF assemblymember's aide detained by ICE, faces deportation to Hong Kong" (used for Stefani's response)](https://sfstandard.com/2026/09/22/sf-assemblymember-s-aide-detained-ice-faces-deportation-hong-kong/) 7. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) 8. [Cal-Access raw data export — California Secretary of State](https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/helpful-resources/raw-data-campaign-finance-and-lobbying-activity) ## The rest of the ballot Member of the State Assembly, District 19 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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