This story first appeared at Newsmakers with Jerry Roberts on September 21, 2019.
Monique Limón said on Saturday that she’s running for the 19th Senate District seat now held by termed-out Hannah-Beth Jackson — a long-awaited decision that leaves her 37th Assembly District seat open for the 2020 election and clarifies the shape of Santa Barbara’s political landscape.
Mercifully ending a six-month, one-woman Hamlet act about her choice between seeking to move to the 40-member Senate, where she'd represent double the land and twice the people, or stay put in the 80-member Assembly, where she's quickly become effective and gained influence in only a few years, Monique announced her candidacy in a 350-word e-blast.