Governor at Large

Candidate, California State Assembly, District 34, 2022

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 31, 2012

CMC Representative, California Teachers Association, 1990-1996

No caucus information on file.

Professor, College of the Desert, 1972-2004

Teacher, Garden Grove Unified School District, 1966-1972

Member, California Retired Teachers Association

Member, California Teachers Association

Priority Issues:

I, Dr. Rita Ramirez, support home, family, and country. For family, I want to create job opportunities by reforming Wall Street and balancing the federal budget. By reforming Wall Street, Wall Street and big banking will be regulated, so that the powerful will not be able to gamble with the economy as in 2008. Hard-working Americans need to receive a cost of living wage, rather than a minimum wage. Every family should have expanded healthcare coverage and extended marriage equality. For the home, I want to improve public education and college opportunities. For the elderly, I support protecting Social Security and Medicare and defending a woman's right to choose. For our country and veterans, Americans will not be put in harm's way, except in a direct attack, for I believe in peace with a well-prepared and well-paid military ready to defend our democracy. Above all, I will protect and defend the right to vote. Furthermore, I will protect the environment from "fracking" and the Keystone Pipeline, for water is life and food is survival.