# Member of the State Assembly, District 67 Compare records and positions simply between Mark Pulido or Paulo Morales for Member of the State Assembly, District 67 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-67 - 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 - **Mark Pulido** — City Councilmember · Democratic - **Paulo Morales** — Law Enforcement Officer · Republican This is an open seat with an unusual June result: Republican Paulo Morales led with 31.6% on a campaign of under $30,000, while Democrat Mark Pulido took 25.9% having raised more than $700,000. The district covers part of northern Orange County. 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. Because this seat is open, whoever wins starts without seniority — and which party they belong to determines whether they build it inside the majority or outside it. The money and the votes point in opposite directions here more sharply than anywhere else on this ballot: the leading candidate raised about four cents for every dollar his opponent did and still finished nearly six points ahead. Neither has held state office. Weigh whether June's result reflects the district's leanings or a crowded field splitting the vote. ## Paulo Morales Paulo Morales is a special deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service and a former mayor and councilman of Cypress (2014-2022). Before entering city government he spent more than two decades with the Cypress Police Department, including on the West Orange County SWAT team (Orange County Register). Morales registered as a Republican two months before launching his campaign; he told the Orange County Register he grew up a Democrat but felt "the party left him," and that "Republicans are focused on letting that person make the decision." He says both his police and mayoral service "honed his listening skills," which he believes would serve him in the Assembly (Orange County Register). He promises to cut what he calls wasteful spending and to reform CEQA to "increase housing production" and "streamline approvals" (Orange County Register). He opposes any cut to public safety funding and supports fully funding Proposition 36, and he promises to lower "unnecessary taxes and fees" tied to programs he says are not delivering results (Orange County Register). **Strengths:** Two decades in law enforcement, including SWAT service, plus experience as an elected mayor and councilman. **Trade-offs:** No state legislative record, and a platform built on cutting spending without naming specific programs to cut. **Keep in mind:** He switched from Democrat to Republican two months before entering this race, after years serving as a Democratic city official. ## Mark Pulido Mark Pulido is a Cerritos city councilmember, now in his third term, and a two-time mayor. Before that he served nine years on the ABC Unified School District board, including as its president. He also worked as District Chief of Staff to former Congressman Alan Lowenthal and as a state Senate district director, and was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to three statewide commissions (Los Cerritos Community News). Pulido says his roots in Cerritos, where his parents were small-business owners, drive his campaign; his site lists his priorities as "better schools, safer communities, more affordable housing, and policies that reduce the economic burden on working families" (campaign site). As a councilmember he backed funding for additional patrol officers, and his campaign says residential burglaries fell 35 percent and emergency response times dropped below three minutes, the fastest in Los Angeles County (campaign site). He promises to "work in partnership with local government and the private sector to build affordable housing" (Orange County Register). On education, he says he wants to "fully fund, equip and modernize our public education system" as a way of repaying what his own public schooling and the UC system gave him (Orange County Register). **Strengths:** A long record in local and school-board government, including as a councilmember, mayor and school board president, plus federal and state legislative staff experience. **Trade-offs:** No prior state or federal legislative record of his own, only staff and local-office experience. **Keep in mind:** His claimed drop in burglaries and response times comes from his own campaign account, not an independently reported figure. ## Record in office This is an open seat: no candidate on the November ballot currently serves in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress, so there is no legislative record to compare here. These records cover only those offices. ## Financial info - **Mark Pulido** - Primary: $706,283 raised (Small donors: $20,623; Individuals: $287,127; PACs & committees: $289,150; Businesses & other orgs: $106,701; Self-funding: $500) - November: $53,588 raised (Individuals: $1,288; PACs & committees: $35,500; Businesses & other orgs: $16,800) - **Paulo Morales** - Primary: $29,475 raised (Small donors: $125; Individuals: $21,000; PACs & committees: $5,900; Businesses & other orgs: $1,000; Self-funding: $250) - November: $900 raised (Individuals: $900) 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. 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 - Mark Pulido for Assembly may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide 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. [Orange County Register — Mark Pulido, AD-67 candidate, 2026 primary election questionnaire](https://www.ocregister.com/2026/05/06/mark-pulido-ad-67-candidate-2026-primary-election-questionnaire/) 4. [Orange County Register — Paulo Morales, AD-67 candidate, 2026 primary election questionnaire](https://www.ocregister.com/2026/05/06/paulo-morales-ad-67-candidate-2026-primary-election-questionnaire/) 5. [Orange County Register — Former Cypress Mayor Paulo Morales is the latest to jump into Assembly race](https://www.ocregister.com/2025/12/06/former-cypress-mayor-paulo-morales-is-the-latest-to-jump-into-assembly-race/) 6. [Los Cerritos Community News — Mark Pulido Knows How Government Works, From Cerritos to Sacramento to Washington](https://loscerritosnews.net/2026/05/08/mark-pulido-knows-how-government-works-from-cerritos-to-sacramento-to-washington/) 7. [Mark Pulido for Assembly — campaign site (biography, priorities)](https://www.markpulido.com) 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 67 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. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Member of the State Assembly, District 67 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-67 (sources last retrieved September 24, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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