Chad Mayes, chief of staff for San Bernardino County Second District Supervisor Janice Rutherford and a former mayor and councilman in Yucca Valley, has declared his intention of running for the California State Assembly in the 42nd District.
Yucca Valley Councilwoman and former mayor Dawn Rowe held a fundraiser for Mayes on April 7.
Calling himself a “committed Christian,” Mayes said he “will be a strong voice of pro-life legislation in Sacramento.”
Mayes made early declaration of his candidacy as part of an effort to succeed Brian Nestande, the Republican incumbent in the 42nd Assembly District, who is now serving his third term and must leave the Assembly at the end of this term because of the term limit rule that applies to current incumbents.