SIMI VALLEY, FILLMORE : Ex-Director of Center Joins Assembly Race
A former director of a health and social service center for the poor has joined several other Republicans in the race for a state Assembly seat representing Simi Valley and Fillmore.
Peggy Freeman, 55, of Castaic, has entered the race for the 38th Assembly District seat that is being vacated by Paula Boland (R-Granada Hills) next year. The district also covers parts of the northwestern San Fernando Valley.
Freeman served as executive director for the Samuel Dixon Family Health Center in Val Verde from 1991 to 1994. She has not yet outlined what issues she hopes to address, but said Wednesday that she will stress during the campaign her experience in management, business, health and education.
“I had completed a very worthwhile service at the nonprofit community health center,” Freeman said. “I look upon this as another public service.”
She joins Ross Hopkins, a public and government affairs consultant; Bob Larkin, chairman of the Ventura County Republican Party, and Scott Wilk, Boland’s chief of staff, in the race.
The district is a Republican stronghold, so the winner of the GOP primary will be considered the front-runner.
Boland must abandon the seat next year because of term limits on state legislators.
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