Eric Lucan was a lifelong Republican until he decided to run for office. He changes party affiliations whenever it suits his career ambitions.

When he ran for Novato City Council, he changed his registration from Republican to No Party Preference, because a Republican would be unelectable there.

In preparation for his aborted 2014 bid for State Senate in District 2, he switched again, this time to Democrat, since running as an independent for a partisan office like the state legislature doesn’t work in a deeply Democratic district.

Eric Lucan’s Republican roots remain clear to this day. MAGA-aligned billionaires who donated generously to Donald Trump’s Super PAC are his biggest financial backers.

The choice is clear. In the race for Assembly District 12, it’s lifelong progressive Democrat Jackie Elward v. recent Republican Eric Lucan.

MAGA-aligned billionaires, big pharma, and for-profit utility companies are attacking Assembly candidate Jackie Elward with smears and lies, because they know she’ll fight for us, not them.

In the primary election, they spent more than $1.6 million to defeat Jackie and to elect recent Republican Eric Lucan.

Their goal: to end the North Bay’s proud progressive legacy and to elect a corporate politician who answers to them.

Making life more affordable for all of us has always been Jackie Elward’s top priority.

As Mayor and Councilwoman on the Rohnert Park City Council, Jackie helped responsibly balance city budgets while making life more affordable.

Jackie reduced homelessness by 60%, created new affordable homes, supported new high wage union jobs for local residents, and made it easier for residents and businesses to install cost-saving solar panels.

Jackie also preserved vital social safety net programs like mental health services, senior centers, and community clinics.

In the State Assembly, Jackie will take bold action on economic issues to lower costs and make large corporations and billionaires pay their fair share.

Jackie supports closing multi-national corporate tax loopholes that cost the state billions every year, raising living-wage standards so wages keep pace with the cost of living in the North Bay, fighting for a universal healthcare system, stopping utility rate hikes, increasing local renewable energy generation to reduce our reliance on companies like PG&E, and securing funding for first-time homeownership programs.

As an Assemblymember, Jackie will stand up to the powerful and fight for the North Bay.

Jackie is the progressive Democrat who supports universal health care. Health care is a human right, and the current for profit health care system is failing us.

Jackie will also fight to empower the state to directly negotiate prescription drug prices, expand Medi-Cal eligibility, incentivize more Californians to become doctors, nurses, and health care workers to address our health care staffing shortages, and work to prevent rural hospital and clinic closures while expanding access to specialized care.

Jackie is a reproductive health care champion who will never waver from a woman’s right to choose.

On Day 1, Jackie Elward will introduce a bill in the State Assembly to institute an AI data center moratorium in California.

Our energy bills are already too high and our water resources are already too scarce.

We need an AI data center moratorium before it's too late, and the state needs to establish clear guidelines that stop rising energy costs, protect our water, bring transparency and an open public process to local communities, and ensure workers and communities actually benefit.