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Friday, March 6, 2026 9:18PM
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Rene Campos filed his candidacy paperwork for the Fresno City Council District 7 contention connected Friday, submitting the documents by the filing deadline.
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According to an email from Nav Grum's run team, who is besides a campaigner for District 7, filing does not warrant a spot connected the ballot. To qualify, Campos indispensable besides get 20 information signatures from registered voters who unrecorded successful District 7. Those signatures indispensable beryllium submitted to the Fresno County Clerk's Office by 5 p.m. Friday for verification.
Campos was charged with being successful possession of kid enactment maltreatment worldly successful 2018. The Fresno autochthonal says helium pleaded nary contention to a misdemeanor charge.
When helium launched his run to correspond District 7 successful February, helium told Action News his absorption is connected safety.
"They accidental let's take idiosyncratic extracurricular the box, idiosyncratic who knows the strategy from the wrong out, due to the fact that me, I've experienced the laws that we are trying to betterment close now," says Campos.
On Tuesday, Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria of Merced introduced a measure that would artifact registered enactment offenders from moving oregon holding immoderate section oregon authorities nationalist office.
"It was precise disturbing to perceive the quality that we would person successful the City of Fresno, the 5th largest metropolis successful the State of California, person a enactment offender, a registered enactment offender, service successful the metropolis council," said Assemblywoman Soria.
Currently, authorities instrumentality does not prohibit registrants from moving for council.
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