{"id":242493,"date":"2025-09-20T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242493\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:48:10","slug":"school-trustee-bazzo-to-run-for-40th-district-state-senate-seat-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242493\/","title":{"rendered":"School trustee Bazzo to run for 40th District state Senate seat in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Trustee-Sabrina-Bazzo.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Trustee-Sabrina-Bazzo.jpg\" alt=\"SDUSD Trustee Sabrina Bazzo. Photo by Chris Stone\" class=\"wp-image-157292\"  \/><\/a>SDUSD Trustee Sabrina Bazzo. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Unified School District Trustee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sabrinabazzoca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sabrina Bazzo<\/a> has announced that she will run for state Senate in the 40th District.<\/p>\n<p>The seat is currently held by Sen. Brian Jones, the Republican leader in the chamber, who is termed out in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI am running to protect public education and protect access to health care which are under intense attack by the Trump administration,\u201d said Bazzo in a statement, adding that she seeks \u201cturn the 40th Senate District Blue and deny MAGA Republicans a voice they\u2019ve used to support Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bazzo, whose professional career is in healthcare education, has served five years on the school board.<\/p>\n<p>She will face former San Diego City Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/maraelliott.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mara Elliott<\/a> in the Democratic primary. On the Republican side, community leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kristiebrucelane.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristie Bruce-Lane<\/a> and Escondido Councilmember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sabrinabazzoca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Musgrove<\/a> will face off in the primary.<\/p>\n<p>The district\u00a0includes much of north and east San Diego County, including northeastern San Diego, the cities of Escondido, Poway, San Marcos, Santee, and numerous unincorporated communities. <\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SDUSD Trustee Sabrina Bazzo. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego) San Diego Unified School District Trustee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[129354,5229,75502,1582,276,129355,129356,129357,129358,3549,7264,22007,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-242493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-40th-district","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-brian-jones","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-ed-musgrove","14":"tag-kristie-bruce-lane","15":"tag-mara-elliott","16":"tag-sabrina-bazzo","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-state-senate","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115239066589459485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}