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Mayor Carmen Montano

For California State Senate District 10

Educator Mayor. Proven executive leadership.

Smart progress. Safe neighborhoods.

Mayor Carmen Montano is not a Sacramento insider or a corporate executive. She is a 26-year public school teacher who stepped up to lead her hometown. As the historic first Latina Mayor of Milpitas, she has protected public safety, managed tough budgets, and fought for the Bay Area middle class. Now she is running for State Senate to bring common sense, fiscal stability, and neighborhood safety to District 10.

Mayor Carmen Montano protected police and fire funding while helping cut Milpitas' five-year structural deficit by 43%.
A 26-year public school teacher who understands the pressures facing working families.
A tested mayor focused on safe neighborhoods, lower costs, and practical results close to home.
Portrait of Mayor Carmen Montano

Mayor Carmen Montano for State Senate

A 26-year teacher. A tested mayor. A serious leader for District 10.

Mayor Carmen Montano brings the kind of executive leadership families trust: safer neighborhoods, fiscal discipline, and steady judgment rooted in the community she still calls home.

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Why Mayor Carmen Montano

Tested executive leadership. Unwavering community dedication.

This campaign is built for voters who want a serious mayor with a real governing record, not another politician performing for the moment. Mayor Carmen Montano leads with discipline, empathy, and a clear commitment to the basics families care about most.

Public safety and neighborhood quality of life come first.
Working families, homeowners, seniors, and students deserve serious representation.
District 10 needs a senator who already understands what local leadership requires.
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Carmen's Story

Rooted in the community. Tested in the classroom. Proven in City Hall.

Mayor Carmen Montano's story is the story of the Bay Area middle class: local roots, decades of service, and a belief that leadership means solving real problems for families.

Sunnyhills roots

Raised in the community she still calls home.

Carmen grew up in Milpitas' Sunnyhills neighborhood and learned that strong communities are built on respect, responsibility, and people looking out for one another.

26 years in the classroom

An educator who knows what families carry.

She spent nearly three decades teaching, including ESL and foundational literacy, helping immigrant and working families build opportunity one student at a time.

Stepped up to lead

A mayor shaped by problem-solving, not performance.

When her hometown needed steady leadership, Carmen made history and focused on the fundamentals: budgets, safety, services, and results residents can feel.

Why Carmen

The Bay Area needs a senator with tested executive leadership.

Mayor Carmen Montano represents the pragmatic, working-family stability this district needs: city budgets, public safety, infrastructure, and the everyday consequences when government either gets the basics right or lets families down.

Mayor Carmen Montano knows District 10 families need lower costs, safer neighborhoods, and schools they can count on.

She brings the discipline of a teacher and the tested judgment of a mayor who delivers results.

Carmen will fight to protect neighborhood quality of life while planning responsibly for the future.

District 10 deserves steady, serious leadership focused on service, accountability, and getting the basics right.

Downtown streetscape in District 10

The Case

Mayor Carmen Montano is strongest where this district is most demanding: trust, competence, and visible results.

Milpitas civic center

Local leadership starts with cities that work.

What Voters Want

District 10 voters are looking for grounded, serious leadership: lower costs, safer neighborhoods, stronger schools, and a state government that remembers how to do the basics well.

Carmen's Record

A public record built around protecting neighborhoods and delivering results.

Mayor Carmen Montano is not asking voters to imagine what kind of leader she might become. She is asking them to judge the work she has already done for students, neighborhoods, and city government.

The throughline

Classroom experience. Executive judgment. Practical follow-through. That is the case for sending Mayor Carmen Montano to Sacramento.

Record

An educator's lens on public service

After 26 years in public education, Mayor Carmen Montano brings patience, empathy, and a relentless focus on outcomes for families.

Record

Historic executive leadership in Milpitas

As the historic first Latina Mayor of Milpitas, Mayor Carmen Montano stepped up when her hometown needed steady executive leadership.

Record

Balanced budgets and protected public safety

Under Mayor Carmen Montano's leadership, Milpitas reduced its five-year structural deficit from $28.5 million to $16.3 million while protecting police and fire funding.

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Pragmatic climate and infrastructure leadership

Carmen has backed cleaner buildings, long-range water stewardship, and growth plans that connect ambition to implementation.

Priorities

What Mayor Carmen Montano will take to Sacramento.

Mayor Carmen Montano's agenda starts where District 10 families live every day: cost pressures, neighborhood safety, school quality, and whether public systems still work.

Lower costs and protect homeownership

Fight for property-tax relief, lower utility costs, and practical affordability policies that help seniors, homeowners, and working families stay in District 10.

Safe neighborhoods and local accountability

Support strong public safety, organized retail theft enforcement, and decisions that respect local communities and neighborhood quality of life.

Infrastructure and housing that fit communities

Push for infrastructure-first growth, better planning, and housing solutions that add homes without asking families to absorb Sacramento's mistakes.

Strong schools and upward mobility

Protect public education, preserve student opportunity, and expand college-to-career pathways across the East Bay and South Bay.

District 10

One district. Distinct communities. One standard of leadership.

From Fremont and Union City to Milpitas, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and North San Jose, District 10 is diverse, high-expectation, and deeply practical. Families want leadership that respects what makes each part of the district different while fighting for shared results.

Fremont and Union City

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Fremont and Union City

Families want more local control, protection for neighborhood quality of life, and growth that respects the communities they built.

Sunnyvale and Santa Clara

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Sunnyvale and Santa Clara

Residents expect smart growth, modern infrastructure, and accountability so economic expansion does not outrun roads, water, schools, and public safety.

Milpitas and North San Jose

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Milpitas and North San Jose

Carmen's home base knows her record firsthand: rooted local leadership, attention to everyday quality-of-life issues, and a mayor who shows up.

District pulse

Explore the issues Carmen will fight on, community by community.

Click into each region for the concerns residents raise most often and the kind of leadership Carmen is running to bring to Sacramento.

More local control over planning and land-use decisions.
Housing that matches infrastructure, schools, and traffic realities.
Safe, family-oriented neighborhoods residents can count on.

Endorsements

Trusted by the leaders who protect, educate, and build our communities.

Mayor Carmen Montano's support is growing among trusted local voices who understand public service, neighborhood issues, and what practical leadership looks like up close.

Endorsement Base

Public safety leaders

Support from leaders who know Mayor Carmen Montano takes safe neighborhoods, steady budgets, and follow-through seriously.

Endorsement Base

Educators and working families

Backed by people who know Mayor Carmen Montano's classroom leadership, work ethic, and long commitment to opportunity.

Endorsement Base

Local civic and business leaders

Trusted by community builders who value Mayor Carmen Montano's competence, fiscal discipline, and practical Bay Area problem-solving.

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Protect our neighborhoods. Protect our future.

Mayor Carmen Montano is building a campaign for voters who want practical leadership, visible results, and a coalition that believes government should still work for working families.

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