Damon Connolly
Senate District 2
Damon Connolly was was elected to the State Assembly in 2022 and re-elected in 2024, representing DMarin County and Sonoma Counties. Before the Assembly he served on the Marin County Board of Supervisors, as Vice Mayor of San Rafael, and as President of the Miller Creek School District board. Earlier in his career he was a California Deputy Attorney General, and he runs a law practice in San Rafael. His priorities are wildfire prevention and climate resilience, affordability for working families, and defending the North Coast's communities, businesses, and natural resources.
Why We Endorsed: Damon Connolly is a sitting Assemblymember who helped author Proposition 4, California's historic $10 billion climate bond, and has spent his time in Sacramento delivering for North Coast communities on wildfire prevention, water resilience, and public safety
Alignment With NCC Priorities: Damon helped author Proposition 4, the 2024 Climate Bond, which is now investing billions in wildfire prevention, drought resilience, sea-level rise adaptation, and home hardening. That is precisely the kind of water and climate infrastructure NCC's water and energy task force champions for communities that live with fire and drought every year. In his first two years in the Assembly he passed 13 bills, including legislation limiting fees on residential solar, strengthening pesticide regulations near schools, protecting mobile home park residents, protecting wetlands, and improving school wildfire evacuation plans.
Learn More: damonconnolly.com
Senate District
2
The Race
District 2 covers the North Coast, stretching from the Oregon border to the northern Bay Area and taking in Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Sonoma, and Marin counties. The seat is open because Senator Mike McGuire is termed out after serving as Senate President Pro Tempore. Connolly is the only Democrat on the ballot after Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore and former Santa Rosa Mayor Natalie Rogers both withdrew their campaigns. He faces Republican Tief Gibbs, a Marin County Republican and former candidate for Novato school board and Congress.
A New California Starts With This Slate
Together, these fourteen candidates are the slate NCC believes can move California forward in 2026. They come from cities and counties up and down the state, from different backgrounds and different parties, and from different chapters of California's story. What they share is a commitment to getting things done: finding solutions to homelessness, building the housing, securing the water and energy, and growing the middle class jobs that working Californians need now. NCC stands behind each of them, and we are asking voters in their districts to join us. The California Dream is worth fighting for, and these are the leaders who will help us bring it back within reach.
June 2026 NCC Races: the map highlights Senate Districts 12, 14, 22, 26, and 34, and Assembly Districts 12, 31, 34, 35, 47, 65, 66, 67, and 68