# Member of the State Assembly, District 77 Compare records and positions simply between Trinity Hannaway or Tasha Boerner for Member of the State Assembly, District 77 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-77 - 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: 94 out of 100 (Very strong), across 8 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Trinity Hannaway** — Taxpayer Advocate · Republican - **Tasha Boerner** — California State Assemblymember · Democratic · Incumbent Assemblymember Tasha Boerner took 61.8% of the June 2 vote and Republican Trinity Hannaway took 38.2%; they were the only two candidates on the primary ballot. The district covers coastal north San Diego 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. Committee assignment is where most of the leverage sits, and it is handed out by the majority's leadership. The incumbent has an established seat and a mid-range record; her funding is almost entirely institutional, with $100 from small donors. Her opponent has reported no campaign funding at all. The practical question here is what this district is getting from a safe seat. ## Tasha Boerner Tasha Boerner, the Democratic Assemblymember for California's 77th District (Carlsbad, Encinitas, Solana Beach, Del Mar and coastal communities south to Coronado), was first elected in 2018 and is now in her fourth term. A fourth-generation San Diego County resident, she served on the Encinitas Planning Commission and City Council before Sacramento, and she chairs the Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee (official Assembly biography). Professionally she worked for Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits, and she started a business designing sensory-friendly clothing after her daughter's struggle with a sensory processing disorder (official Assembly biography). Boerner says she "got my start in public service by fighting to get a stop sign installed near my kids' school," and that "after hitting a wall of bureaucracy," she eventually succeeded (campaign site). In 2026 she authored AB 2253, requiring companies to substantiate recycled-content claims on packaging; the bill was opposed by packaging industry groups, passed the Legislature, and was sent to Governor Newsom, who had not signed or vetoed it as of late September 2026 (official Assembly website; leginfo.legislature.ca.gov). She promises to keep fighting for "affordability, sustainability, equality, opportunity" and public safety in coastal San Diego County (campaign site). She also authored AB 353, creating independent oversight of the California Public Utilities Commission, and secured 2026-27 state budget funding for San Diego police to expand efforts against human trafficking (official Assembly website). **Strengths:** Four terms and a committee chair, with two of her bills sent to the governor this year over industry objections. **Trade-offs:** A long incumbency in a safe seat means less contested debate over her choices than a competitive district would produce. **Keep in mind:** Judge her on this term's specific bills, like the recycling and utility oversight measures, not just on years in office. ## Trinity Hannaway Trinity Hannaway is a Republican candidate for California's 77th Assembly District (coastal north San Diego County). Hannaway's ballot designation lists their occupation as taxpayer advocate; they have not served in the California Legislature or in Congress (ballot designation). Cal-Access shows no contributions reported for their campaign committee. No campaign website or news coverage of their platform could be located. No documented statement of their priorities or promises could be located. **Strengths:** Hannaway gave this district's voters a contested race rather than a single name on the ballot. **Trade-offs:** No campaign website, no news coverage and no record in office leave almost nothing to evaluate beyond party and ballot designation. **Keep in mind:** No campaign website or news coverage of their platform could be located. What is known comes from their ballot designation. ## Record in office Trinity Hannaway has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Tasha Boerner (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 30 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 5 of them signed into law. Per the California Legislature's public bill data (leginfo bulk download), retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Record details Boerner — AB 2556 (2026): Evidence: credibility of witnesses and evidence affected or excluded by extrinsic policies. Boerner — AB 87 (2025): Housing development: density bonuses. Boerner — AB 1017 (2025): Energy: electrical and gas corporations: general rate cases. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **Tasha Boerner** - Primary: $603,862 raised (Small donors: $100; Individuals: $39,450; PACs & committees: $280,050; Businesses & other orgs: $277,440) - November: $39,750 raised (Individuals: $11,950; PACs & committees: $9,900; Businesses & other orgs: $17,900) Trinity Hannaway 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. Trinity Hannaway 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 - Tasha Boerner 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. [Assemblymember Tasha Boerner — official Assembly biography page (career, committees)](https://a77.asmdc.org/biography) 4. [Assemblymember Tasha Boerner — official Assembly homepage (news of AB 2253 and AB 353, including packaging-industry opposition and floor votes)](https://a77.asmdc.org/) 5. [Tasha Boerner for Assembly — campaign site (biography, motivation and platform)](https://www.tashaboerner.com/) 6. [California Legislature — AB 2253 (2025-2026) status: solid waste recycled content claims (used to confirm the bill was enrolled and sent to the Governor)](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2253) 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 77 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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