Steve Bennett has a proven record of solving problems and getting things done, as a Ventura County Supervisor, environmental leader and teacher.

Steve has dedicated his public service career to protecting our quality of life, including our local natural areas, open spaces and addressing climate change.

For decades Steve has protected our environment from profiteers.  He coauthored the Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources (SOAR) initiatives to protect open spaces from encroaching Los Angeles-style urban sprawl, and passed laws to stop oil companies and other corporate polluters from contaminating our air, land, drinking water and beaches.

As a County Supervisor, Steve brought fiscal discipline and balanced budgets to Ventura County by implementing smart policies without cuts to vital local services — securing funding to bolster firefighting efforts and open a homeless shelter.

Steve was an economics teacher at Nordhoff High School in Ojai and has 20-years of experience in local education.  He is committed to increasing funding for our public schools – specifically more money going into the classroom, and not the bureaucracy.

He is an independent local leader who stands up to powerful special interests, and wrote one of the strongest campaign reform laws taking big money out of local politics.

Steve has an Honors degree in economics from Brown University and received his Masters in Education from Butler University. He currently lives in Ventura with his wife.

Born on California’s Central Coast in Santa Barbara in 1998, Charles Cole is a leader of the youngest voter generation. The son of a patented designer/builder father, and a small business bookkeeper mother, Charles is educated in accounting, statistics and business in high school and at Santa Barbara City College.

It is there that Charles encountered the decay of California state government and the decline of state education into indoctrination via political correctness. Faced with a system hostile to business, entrepreneurship and conservative values, Charles decided to run for the 37th District seat on State Assembly in Sacramento. Unlike a career politician, Charles is the contemporary echo of Ronald Reagan’s principles and values in California politicBorn on California’s Central Coast in Santa Barbara in 1998, Charles Cole is a leader of the youngest voter generation. The son of a patented designer/builder father, and a small business bBorn on California’s Central Coast in Santa Barbara in 1998, Charles Cole is a leader of the youngest voter generation. The son of a patented designer/builder father, and a small business bookkeeper mother, Charles is educated in accounting, statistics and business in high school and at Santa Barbara City College.

It is there that Charles encountered the decay of California state government and the decline of state education into indoctrination via political correctness. Faced with a system hostile to business, entrepreneurship and conservative values, Charles decided to run for the 37th District seat on State Assembly in Sacramento. Unlike a career politician, Charles is the contemporary echo of Ronald Reagan’s principles and values in California politics.https://www.coleforassembly.com/abouthttps://www.coleforassembly.com/aboutookkeeper mother, Charles is educated in accounting, statistics and business in high school and at Santa Barbara City College.

It is there that Charles encountered the decay of California state government and the decline of state education into indoctrination via political correctness. Faced with a system hostile to business, entrepreneurship and conservative values, Charles decided to run for the 37th District seat on State Assembly in Sacramento. Unlike a career politician, Charles is the contemporary echo of Ronald Reagan’s principles and values in California politic

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A PRINCIPLED LEADER

From his two scholastic trips to Europe, Charles appreciates the greatness of America as the beacon of opportunity to the world. From his studies of American History in Washington, D.C., Charles learned the wisdom of America’s constitutional founders that the people should not fear their government, but government should fear the people. From living on the Central Coast of California under a one party rule for decades, Charles discovered the disappointing truth of President Reagan’s famous words: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I'm from the government and I'm here to help.’”

Currently, Charles is partnered with his father Thomas in a small business public relations firm, 805Analytics. One of Charles’s recent videos, about City College students disrupting the Pledge of Allegiance, garnered huge attention nationwide. Charles is a bridge-builder between generations and viewpoints, regularly participating in Young America’s Foundation (YAF) lectures and symposiums at the Reagan Ranch Center where he listens to liberal, conservative, libertarian and independent thinkers, activists and office holders.