California Federation of Teachers Endorses Dave Min
IRVINE, CA — Today, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), which represents more than 120,000 teachers, professors, librarians, teaching assistants, bus drivers, and classified employees across our state’s public schools, universities, community colleges, and early childhood learning centers, announced its endorsement of Dave Min’s 2024 campaign for Congress in CA-47.
“Professor Dave Min is a proven champion for California’s students, teachers, and educational employees,” said CFT President Jeffrey Freitas. “It’s clear that his experience as an educator and a parent of children in public schools have helped to inform his work as a legislator, whether it’s in expanding access to debt-free college or ensuring high-equality education for our K-12 students. At a time when we are facing dangerous efforts to defund public education across the country, we need Dave Min and his values, experience, and proven leadership in Congress. The 120,000 hardworking education professionals who are represented by the California Federation of Teachers are proud to support his campaign.”
CFT is affiliated with the 1.7 million American Federation of Teachers and comprises 147 local unions across California. This early endorsement is just the latest in a long string of decisive endorsements for California State Senator Dave Min, who launched his campaign for CA-47 in January with the support of incumbent Congresswoman Katie Porter and recently announced his campaign’s early endorsement by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Just over three months into his campaign, Senator Min has been backed by over 125 local, state, and federal officials, including California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and three other California statewide elected officials, AAPI Victory Fund, Asian American Action Fund, the Asian American and Pacific Islander Congressional Caucus’s ASPIRE PACT, which represents 21 members of Congress, and many others. A full endorsement list is available here. Min raised over $520,000 in his first quarter as a candidate, a number that does not include any loans or other self-funding, one of the top figures in the country in a contested seat.
Senator Min, the only Korean-American in the state legislature, serves as Chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee and as Senate Vice Chair of the Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. Min, who was formerly a law professor at UC Irvine School of Law and has three children in Irvine public schools, also serves on the Senate’s Budget Subcommittee for Education, which oversees all budget funding for California’s public schools, community colleges, the California State University system, and the University of California system.
Min has proven himself an incredibly effective legislative leader in the Senate, authoring 16 bills signed into law by the Governor, including leading legislation on hate crimes, gun violence prevention, family safety, and women’s reproductive rights, and procuring over $70 million in direct appropriations for priorities in his district, including for fire response, parks and open spaces, and climate innovation. In the wake of the 2021 Huntington Beach Oil Spill, he stood up to the oil industry and led efforts to end offshore drilling. Min sits on two key environmental committees, chairing the Natural Resources and Water Committee and serving on the Energy and Utilities Committee, as well as the Budget Committee, the Budget Subcommittee for Education, the Judiciary Committee, and the Banking and Financial Institutions Committee. Senator Min previously served as Chair of the Select Committee on Cybersecurity.
Before entering the State Senate, Min was a law professor at UC Irvine, where he taught and researched in the area of business law. He resides with his wife Jane Stoever, a UC Irvine law professor who specializes in domestic violence and family law, and their three children in Irvine. Dave is a native Californian, a product of California public schools who graduated from the Wharton School and Harvard Law School, and an Eagle Scout.
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California’s 47th is an open Congressional District in Orange County that includes the Cities of Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Newport Beach, and Seal Beach, and portions of Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, and Laguna Woods. Incumbent Katie Porter is vacating the seat to run for U.S. Senate. In 2022, Porter defeated former Assemblymember Republican Scott Baugh by 3.44% in this “toss-up” district. State Senator Dave Min currently represents over 80% of Congressional District 47 in Sacramento. In 2020, Min received over 158,000 votes within CA-47, defeating incumbent John Moorlach by 5.15% in this area. 19% of the registered voters in CA-47 are of Asian and Pacific Islander descent, including one of the largest Korean-American populations in the country.
