The race is on for 24th Congressional District
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Democratic incumbent Salud Carbajal and republican challenger Thomas Cole are on the ballot for the 24th Congressional District in California.
"I want to continue my work to fight for working middle-class families here on the central coast to lift them up to increase their quality of life," said Carbajal.
"I see that there’s a great deal of waste in our government, in our local government, as well and when we look at the numbers that are going out," said Cole.
The district encompasses Ojai and Ventura, as well as all of Santa Barbara County and most of San Luis Obispo County.
"My greatest accomplishments are having brought to the central coast over $1 billion to address our infrastructure prescription drug cost," said Carbajal.
"I'm quite proud that we put together a good campaign. I believe we’re sticking with the issues that people care about peace, parents, and borders. These are the issues at the every day working people are concerned about it," said Cole.
The two candidates are focused on a variety of issues in the community including reproductive rights, housing, inflation, jobs and more.
"What we need is to stabilize costs for families for housing for childcare for groceries all of those things that they deal with on a daily basis we need to make sure that we contain and lower costs for every day essentials," said Carbajal.
"I think people are concerned about money and the borders issues and the lack of housing, which is also caused by open borders so there’s kind of a package of items that are hurting our community," said Cole.
"Well, I plan to continue fighting for women’s reproductive continue fighting to make sure that more resources come to communities for housing for infrastructure to address climate change and to make sure that we’re addressing comprehensive immigration reform," said Carbajal.
"I would be voting on border issues and that would be, lets close the border and get it safe and secure so only legal come in. I think the ... Mexico plan was good. We have 97% fraud by these sanctity seekers," said Cole.
If elected, the winner of the 24th district race will represent the area for a two-year term.
