IN THE NEWS
LISA HIGHLIGHTS
CV INDEPENDENT
"I’ve told people that when I get to Sacramento, there will be a small train on the front of my desk, and nobody is going to get to talk about anything until I tell them how important it is that we bring rail service into the Coachella Valley. We are the fastest-growing region in terms of population growth and industry in California, but we’ve not kept pace in building out the roadways."
THE PRESS ENTERPRISE
"As elected officials, it’s critical that we always listen to the people on the ground who are most impacted by a certain issue. And in this case, it’s far past time that we actually listen to our law enforcement officers and small business owners when they tell us the changes in our laws are failing to hold criminals accountable."
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Middleton is endorsed by Planned Parenthood and Reproductive Freedom for All California, and has made abortion rights a key tenet of her campaign for state Senate. She has vowed to increase funding for reproductive health clinics, expand access to birth control medication and in vitro fertilization and protect those who travel from red states to California to seek abortions.”
CAL MATTERS
"Middleton is 'literally one of the best elected officials I have worked with' over 40 years of policing, said Palm Springs Police Chief Andrew Mills. He credits her with helping improve retention and morale in the department, which led to the local police association endorsing her."
PALM SPRINGS POST
"In South Palm Springs, an essential piece of infrastructure will soon be in service. How it got there helps tell the story of who helped it get there....
Cell service is notoriously weak in South Palm Springs, especially in neighborhoods boxed in by Murray Hill and the eastern base of Mt. San Jacinto. Middleton vowed to tackle the issue, and worked tirelessly to help bring what will amount to a signal boost for a two-mile radius surrounding the golf course."
LA TIMES
"While Middleton has made protecting abortion rights a central part of her campaign, Ochoa Bogh received a 0% score from Planned Parenthood for her legislative record last year and authored a bill that would have mandated that schools teach about antiabortion crisis pregnancy centers."
CV INDEPENDENT
"Lisa Middleton, a Palm Springs City Council member who is running for the new State Senate District 19 seat, said a lot of preparation went into the successful effort to get the $50 million state grant."
PRESS ENTERPRISE
“If elected, Middleton said she’d work to upgrade the Inland Empire’s transportation infrastructure, which she sees as strained by imports from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the region’s booming logistics sector. ‘They are essentially on the same freeways (and) in the same transportation networks that existed when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in Bell Gardens,’ Middleton said.”
DESERT SUN
“I’m running to make a difference in Sacramento and be an effective voice for the 19th District by fighting for pragmatic, common-sense solutions that will improve the lives of all Californians,” Middleton said in a statement Tuesday. “I’m not running to represent the blue team or the red team — I’m running to represent the people (of) Riverside and San Bernardino counties.”
DESERT SUN
“Middleton spent most of her career working as an administrator with California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund and said she had been a member of CalPERS since 1974. As a member of the CalPERS board, she said she looked forward to voicing the worries and pressures felt by local governments.”