Elizabeth Betancourt
Elizabeth Betancourt (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 1. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Betancourt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Betancourt completed Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Betancourt ran in a special election to represent the same seat in 2019. She lost the general election on November 5, 2019.
Biography
Elizabeth Betancourt earned a bachelor's degree from University of California, Davis in 2004 and a master's degree from Colorado State University in 2005. Her career experience includes working as a watershed scientist.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2020
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 1
Incumbent Megan Dahle defeated Elizabeth Betancourt in the general election for California State Assembly District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Megan Dahle (R) | 58.9 | 146,902 | |
| Elizabeth Betancourt (D) | 41.1 | 102,541 | ||
| Total votes: 249,443 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 1
Incumbent Megan Dahle and Elizabeth Betancourt defeated PK Dhanuka in the primary for California State Assembly District 1 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Megan Dahle (R) | 51.0 | 83,883 | |
| ✔ | Elizabeth Betancourt (D) | 39.5 | 64,948 | |
| PK Dhanuka (Independent) | 9.5 | 15,630 | ||
| Total votes: 164,461 | ||||
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2019
See also: California state legislative special elections, 2019
General election
Special general election for California State Assembly District 1
Megan Dahle defeated Elizabeth Betancourt in the special general election for California State Assembly District 1 on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Megan Dahle (R) | 57.3 | 59,991 | |
| Elizabeth Betancourt (D) | 42.7 | 44,618 | ||
| Total votes: 104,609 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 1
Elizabeth Betancourt and Megan Dahle defeated Patrick Henry Jones, Joe Turner, and Lane Rickard in the special primary for California State Assembly District 1 on August 27, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Elizabeth Betancourt (D) | 38.6 | 35,167 | |
| ✔ | Megan Dahle (R) | 35.6 | 32,427 | |
| Patrick Henry Jones (R) | 18.7 | 17,010 | ||
| Joe Turner (R) | 5.2 | 4,751 | ||
| Lane Rickard (R) | 1.8 | 1,674 | ||
| Total votes: 91,029 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Elizabeth Betancourt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Betancourt's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have worked with state policy and how it affects our rural communities, and the variety of approaches to ensuring that all beneficiaries (including urban communities!) are part of planning and funding our healthy forests and watersheds. I've done a significant portion of this work as an advocate to the California Legislature, building bridges with urban areas and other rural districts and advocating for investment in our rural landscapes.
I've served on the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District Board for five years, one as our Board's Vice Chair. I have also provided recommendations to the Redding City Council on spending federal grant funds to best serve our friends and neighbors. My husband and I have a small farm business in Happy Valley and for eight years have provided food to families in the region.
I have dedicated my life to public service, and see serving as your next Assembly Woman a natural next step: I have implemented laws, advocated for laws, and now it's time for a true child of northern California to help in shaping those laws.- • Improve education and healthcare access and options throughout AD1 through building on existing successes and expanding the reach of community healthcare centers throughout rural CA.
- • Workforce development and jobs growth through increased natural resources investment and increased in-region educational opportunities, including access to university education as well as increased career/technical education options.
- • Expand housing options at all economic levels, as well as schools and other community infrastructure, ensuring all communities are able to accommodate community needs, building union job availability and sustainable economic growth.
Public school and higher education
Healthcare access in rural landscapes
Jobs development, and especially union jobs
Climate change is another huge struggle, as flashier storms/hydrology will wreak havoc on our water and transportation infrastructure.
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2019
Elizabeth Betancourt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Betancourt's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Access to better and more options in healthcare and education
Water supply and management is important to me, and is something that I've spent most of my career on. As California's through-Delta water conveyance is redesigned, having someone in Sacramento who knows the system, the issues, and the players is incredibly important.
Rural access to healthcare and education is a huge component of our quality of life. We need more services, including mental health services, and we need to be thinking creatively about how those services are delivered. There are a number of community colleges in AD1, but no public universities. The state should be investing in our region as a place of innovation in forestry and lands protection, and should be helping to teach our children how to do this work and provide for their families, strengthening our rural communities.
Optimism
Hard work and discipline
Faith, dignity, and equity
Conservation
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ ’’Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 25, 2020’’
