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Randy Villegas

Visalia Unified School District trustee for Trustee Area 6, appointed in December 2021 and elected in 2022 and 2024. Campaign affiliation: Democratic.

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Background, stated goals, record, and money

Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filing window and the reconciliation in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.

Randy Villegas

Background

  • A Visalia Unified School District trustee for Trustee Area 6. The district lists him as appointed in December 2021 and elected in November 2022 and November 2024, with a term ending in December 2028. Visalia Unified School District
  • The board appointed him provisionally on December 9, 2021, by four votes to one with one abstention, to fill a vacancy until the November 2022 election. Visalia Unified School District
  • His campaign describes him as an educator, college professor and son of immigrants, raised in Kern County, and the first in his family to earn a doctorate. Villegas for Congress
  • His ballot designation is Teacher/Business Owner; his campaign's economy page describes him as a family auto shop owner. California Secretary of State, Villegas for Congress

What they say they want to do

  • Medicare for All, including dental and vision care, and caps on the prices of medical procedures and prescription drugs. Villegas for Congress
  • A path to citizenship for undocumented residents and an end to blanket detention and deportation. Villegas for Congress
  • Higher taxes on the top 1 per cent of earners and wealth holders, and a federal minimum wage above $7.25. Villegas for Congress, Villegas for Congress
  • A ban on stock trading and lobbying by members of Congress, an end to Citizens United, a ban on corporate PAC influence, and congressional term limits. Villegas for Congress
  • Tuition-free public colleges, career, technical and community, and action on student debt. Villegas for Congress

What the official record shows

  • Dec 9, 2021 Appointed provisionally to the Visalia Unified board for Trustee Area 6, four votes to one with one abstention. Visalia Unified School District
  • Jun 28, 2022 Seconded the motion approving the classified employees' 2022-23 agreement with CSEA Chapter 83, which raised their salary schedule 6.4 per cent after a minimum-wage adjustment and paid $3,500 once to staff working six hours a day or more, pro-rated for others. It carried unanimously. Visalia Unified School District, Visalia Unified School District
  • May 9, 2023 Moved approval of the teachers' agreement with the Visalia Unified Teachers Association, which raised all certificated salary schedules 10 per cent for 2023-24. It carried unanimously. Visalia Unified School District, Visalia Unified School District
  • Jun 13, 2023 Voted for the classified employees' 2023-24 agreement, which raised their salary schedule 9.25 per cent. It carried unanimously. Visalia Unified School District, Visalia Unified School District
  • Jun 10, 2025 Voted for the classified employees' 2025-26 agreement, which raised their salary schedule 0.76 per cent. It carried unanimously. Visalia Unified School District, Visalia Unified School District, Visalia Unified School District

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 2 committees$57,917
Leadership PACs 21 committees$54,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 10 committees$35,548
PAC - Qualified 12 committees$35,500
Labor Organization PACs 5 committees$23,000
House 12 committees$20,500
Membership Organization PACs 4 committees$10,950
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 3 committees$6,100
Committees the FEC records no type for 1 committee$3,500
PAC - Nonqualified 1 committee$1,000

Source: Federal Election Commission

Contributions from political committees on lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees) of his committee's 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organisation type or designation of the contributing committee. Each line reconciles to the committee's own filed total: nothing on line 11B, 190,098.39 dollars on line 11C (the itemised rows sum three cents lower) and 57,917.02 dollars on line 12. The rows sum to 248,015.38 dollars, which is a part of what his committee reports raising and not its total. Donations individuals made through ActBlue are individual contributions and are not in the table.

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Randy Villegas

School staff wages as a trustee

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What they say

His campaign says that as a school board trustee he has fought for and raised wages for teachers, custodians, nutrition workers and bus drivers.

“As a school board trustee, I have fought for and successfully raised wages for our teachers, custodians, nutritional workers and bus drivers”

Source: Villegas for Congress

What the record shows · Jun 11, 2026

The Visalia Unified board raised both units' pay while he sat on it, and he voted for every agreement with them that came to a vote while he was present, all unanimously. In his first year he seconded the classified employees' 2022-23 agreement (June 28, 2022), which adjusted their salary schedule for the state minimum wage, raised it a further 6.4 per cent and paid $3,500 once to staff working six hours a day or more, pro-rated for others. He moved the teachers' 2023-24 agreement, which raised all certificated salary schedules 10 per cent (May 9, 2023), and voted for the classified employees' 2023-24 agreement, which raised their schedule 9.25 per cent (June 13, 2023); the classified unit includes custodians, cafeteria workers and bus drivers. The 2025-26 agreements added 1.25 per cent for teachers (May 23, 2025) and 0.76 per cent for classified staff (June 10, 2025). The 2024-25 agreements, which he also voted for and one of which he seconded, kept both units' 2023-24 salary schedules and gave each one fewer work day at the same pay. He also voted for two smaller classified agreements on consent: more paid hours and days for cafeteria staff (December 12, 2023), and a raise of at least 5 per cent for nutrition-services delivery staff from January 2025 (November 19, 2024). He was absent for three agreement votes: the teachers' 2022-23 agreement on July 19, 2022, a 7.56 per cent increase to all salary schedules with a $2,500 one-time payment for full-time staff, and both 2026-27 agreements, on June 9 and June 11, 2026, each approved 5-0 with two trustees absent: 3.25 per cent for teachers, and 1.85 per cent plus a $1,000 one-time payment for classified staff.

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Limit: Wages did rise by board vote while he served, and his votes were for every raise that reached him. But every one of those votes was unanimous, and the minutes summarise motions and roll calls rather than debate, so they cannot show that he fought for the raises any more than his six colleagues did. The raises were negotiated by the district with the unions; a trustee's part is the vote.

Randy Villegas

Money: no corporate PACs

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What they say

His campaign's home page says it takes no corporate PAC money.

“No Corporate PACs. Just People Like You.”

Source: Villegas for Congress

What the record shows · Jun 30, 2026

His committee's filings for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026 list 80 contributions from other political committees on line 11C, totalling 190,098.36 dollars, three transfers from two joint fundraising committees on line 12, totalling 57,917.02 dollars, and nothing from party committees. The FEC records an organisation type for nine of the contributing committees, five labour organisations and four membership organisations, and none as a corporation. The rest are leadership PACs, other candidates' campaign committees and PACs with no sponsoring organisation. The joint fundraising committees' own itemised donors passed through to him are individuals and two political committees, neither recorded as a corporation's PAC.

Sources: Federal Election Commission, Federal Election Commission

Limit: The test is the FEC's own record of each contributing committee: a PAC a corporation sponsors is registered with organisation type Corporation, and none of his is. The leadership PACs and other members' campaigns that gave to him can take corporate PAC money themselves, which the claim does not address, and spending by outside groups is not money his campaign received. The record runs to June 30, 2026; the October quarterly report is not yet due.

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Evidence timeline

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  1. Occurred Aug 27, 2026

    race event

    Official candidate list certified

    The California Secretary of State's certified list for the November 3 general election names both candidates for the 22nd district.

    California Secretary of State
  2. Occurred Jul 15, 2026

    race event

    July quarterly reports filed

    Both principal campaign committees filed their reports for May 14 to June 30, 2026 on the same day.

    Federal Election Commission Federal Election Commission
  3. Through Jun 30, 2026

    finance

    FEC filing snapshot

    July Quarterly 2026, principal campaign committee VILLEGAS FOR CONGRESS.

    Federal Election Commission
  4. Occurred May 9, 2023

    race event

    Teachers' 2023-24 agreement approved

    Villegas moved approval of the agreement raising all certificated salary schedules 10 per cent; it carried unanimously.

    Visalia Unified School District Visalia Unified School District

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