Painters And Allied Trades Endorse Dave Min

IRVINE, CA — Today, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 36, joined over 125 local, state, and federal leaders, Police Officers, SEIU, the California Federation of Teachers and the Congressional Asian Pacific Islander Caucus’ ASPIRE PAC in endorsing Dave Min for Congress in California’s 47th Congressional District. 

“State Senator Dave Min has the backs of working men and women and we are proud to endorse him,” said Robert Smith, Political Director of IUPAT District Council 36. “The son of immigrants, Dave has dedicated his career to standing up to corporate greed on Wall Street, fighting for worker protections in the State Senate, and bringing costs down for Orange County families, to ensure everyone has a fair shot at the American Dream.”

The 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) and the California Federation of Teachers. 

Last week, the largest local law enforcement association in the state, LAPPL, representing over 9,200 police officers, and professional sworn members, endorsed Min for his record on public safety.

In just over three months into his campaign, Senator Min has built a coalition of support that includes 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 PAC, which represents 21 members of Congress, and many others. A full endorsement list is available here. 

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.