Sepi Gilani
Sepi Gilani (Democratic Party) is running in a special election to the U.S. Senate to represent California. She is on the ballot in the special primary on March 5, 2024.
Gilani is also running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent California. She is on the ballot in the primary on March 5, 2024.
Gilani completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sepi Gilani was born in Denver, Colorado. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989 and an M.D. from Stanford University in 1993. Her career experience includes working as a physician and as a professor. She worked as an instructor and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School from 2001 to 2016. She began working as an associate professor of surgery for the University of California, San Diego in 2015.[1][2][3]
Elections
2024
Regular election
See also: United States Senate election in California, 2024
General election
The primary will occur on March 5, 2024. The general election will occur on November 5, 2024. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate California
The following candidates are running in the primary for U.S. Senate California on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
 | Sharleta Bassett (R) | |
 | James P. Bradley (R) | |
 | Eric Early (R) | |
 | Steve Garvey (R) | |
 | Denice Gary-Pandol (R)  | |
 | Laura Garza (No party preference) | |
 | Sepi Gilani (D) | |
 | Don Grundmann (No party preference) | |
| Forrest Jones (American Independent Party of California) | |
 | Harmesh Kumar (D) | |
 | Barbara Lee (D) | |
 | Sarah Sun Liew (R) | |
 | Gail Lightfoot (L) | |
 | James Macauley (R) | |
 | Christina Pascucci (D) | |
 | David Peterson (D) | |
 | Douglas Howard Pierce (D) | |
 | Katie Porter (D) | |
 | Perry Pound (D) | |
 | Raji Rab (D) | |
 | Jonathan Reiss (R) | |
 | John Rose (D) | |
| Mark Ruzon (No party preference) | |
 | Adam Schiff (D) | |
| Stefan Simchowitz (R) | |
 | Major Singh (No party preference) | |
| Martin Veprauskas (R) | |
| Eduardo Berdugo (Independent) (Write-in) | |
 | Danny Fabricant (R) (Write-in) | |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Paul Anderson (G)
- Carson Franklin Jr. (D)
- Barack Obama Mandela (R)
- Zafar Inam (D)
- Renee Martinez (Independent)
- Lexi Reese (D)
- Peter Yuan Liu (R)
- Joe Sosinski (Independent)
- Roxanne Lawler (R)
- James Shuster (R)
- Frank Ferreira (Independent)
- Rommell Montenegro (D)
- Jeremy Fennell (D)
- Zakaria Kortam (R)
- John Pappenheim (R)
- Jacob Farmos (D)
- Joshua Bocanegra (D)
- Alexander Norbash (D)
- Dominick Dorothy (D)
- Jehu Hand (R)
- Dana Bobbitt (Independent)
- Fepbrina Keivaulqe Autiameineire (Vienmerisce Veittemeignzce USA)
- Jessica Resendez (D)
Endorsements
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Special election
See also: United States Senate special election in California, 2024
General election
The primary will occur on March 5, 2024. The general election will occur on November 5, 2024. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate California
The following candidates are running in the special primary for U.S. Senate California on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| Eric Early (R) | |
| Steve Garvey (R) | |
| Sepi Gilani (D) | |
| Barbara Lee (D) | |
| Christina Pascucci (D) | |
| Katie Porter (D) | |
| Adam Schiff (D) | |
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Sepi Gilani completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gilani's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Physician, Surgeon, Public University Educator
I entered the race for Senate after Senator Dianne Feinstein passed away. As a physician who sees homeless, ill, and struggling patients on a daily basis, I believe that these three issues are important in California and our nation:
Homelessness
Healthcare
Education
I was born in Denver, Colorado and graduated from high school in Liberty, Missouri. Since then I have lived most of my life in California. While in California, I have lived in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Mountain View and San Diego. I am currently Associate Professor at University of California San Diego, where I teach surgery. My husband of 36 years is a radiologist. My older twin son and my daughter-in-law are lawyers and my younger twin son does social research and served in the United States Peace Corps for two years.
In 2012, when I ran for Town Committee, I was on the same election ballot as President Obama and was elected to Town Committee where I served from 2012-2015.
I currently serve as president of the American College of Surgeons San Diego and Imperial County Chapter.
I have worked on countless political campaigns including medical ones and have served on many non profit organization boards. I have knocked on thousands of doors and have made tens of thousands of phone calls to get others elected to political office, I have worked the polls and registered hundreds to vote.
I hope you can join me for my campaign.
- #Homelessness Homelessness affects all of us and has not been solved despite billions spent by the government. We must work to solve homelessness without additional burden to taxpayers by coordinating efforts, eliminating wasteful inefficiencies, and implementing solutions proposed by advocates and researchers on homelessness.
- #Healthcare If everyone is insured and has easy access to healthcare, we will have less national health expenses and we will be able to prevent illness. One of our problems today is that health insurance is tied to being employed. If you lose your job, you also lose your health insurance. Families are often trapped without a job and without health insurance. Having health covered regardless of employment makes sure people can get the care they need when they need it. Much of our health care expenses are because we wait too long and when we finally do show up for care, the problem is more problematic and more costly to treat. Training more doctors to provide care earlier in the disease process helps reduce costs for healthcare and
- #Education I attended a public high school in a small farming town in northeast Missouri. In the Midwest we had robust vocational schools built into the public high schools which provided much needed training. Many of my classmates were able to graduate knowing a trade and were able to start working immediately. Classes and career pathways included agriculture, drafting, electronics, automotive, construction trades and animal science. Many states, including California, do not have vocational training. I would work to have vocational training available at all public high schools. High school can be a successful springboard to employment and having a vocation in early adulthood. I also believe that students who would like to participate i
#Homelessness #Healthcare #Education
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
