Today, family physician Dr. Jasmeet Bains announced her campaign for Congress in California’s 22nd District, pledging to bring new leadership to a region often ignored by Washington, D.C.
“I’m a doctor, not a career politician — and I’ve spent my life on the frontlines, listening to Valley families and fighting for their health, their safety, and their future,” said Dr. Bains. “I’m running for Congress because we deserve better than broken promises and backroom deals, and our communities are tired of getting left behind. We deserve a representative who will actually show up, and stand up, for the Valley.”
Dr. Bains is a family and addiction doctor who serves as the Central Valley’s Chief Medical Officer for the California Medical Assistance team, which organizes emergency health services across the state. Raised in Delano, the daughter of immigrants, and the first in her family to become a doctor, Dr. Bains represents the Kern County area in the State Assembly. Since her election in 2022 with strong bipartisan support, she has emerged as a relentless advocate for underserved communities, a champion for rural healthcare, and a leader in addressing the addiction and fentanyl crisis — while pushing to bring good-paying jobs and long-overdue investment back to the Central Valley for working families.
She’s now stepping up to challenge Rep. David Valadao, who has voted in lockstep with Donald Trump and House Republican leadership to gut Medi-Cal, slash food assistance, and back a budget that would devastate working families across the Valley.
“David Valadao doesn’t work for us — he works for the donors and D.C. insiders who drive up drug prices and fund his campaigns as families here are rationing care,” said Dr. Bains. “In the middle of an affordability crisis in the Central Valley, while our communities struggle to afford care, food, or clean water, Valadao just voted to gut Medi-Cal that provides 68% of the affordable healthcare in our community, jack up prescription drug prices, and cut off food assistance for thousands of hardworking folks. That’s not leadership — that’s betrayal.”
CA-22 includes Bakersfield, Delano, Hanford, and communities across Kern, Kings, and Tulare Counties — one of the most diverse and economically vital regions in California. Dr. Bains’ campaign will focus on ensuring every family in the Valley can access affordable healthcare and economic opportunity — no matter their zip code.
Valadao’s vote for the GOP’s “One Big Ugly Budget” would:
- Strip health coverage from at least 65,000 people in CA-22
- Cut food assistance for more than 60,000 households
- Threaten nearly 500,000 residents in CA-22 who rely on Medi-Cal for their health coverage – 68% of the district.
“For too long, politicians in both parties have treated the Central Valley like an afterthought,” Dr. Bains added. “I’m running to change that — because this district is my home, and I’ll never stop fighting for it.”
For more information, visit DrJasmeetBains.com and follow @DrJasmeetBains on social media.
Dr. Bains went to the American University of Antigua College, an overseas so she has a non US Caribbean university Medical Degree, something she leaves off of her Bio. The first thing on her website is a plea for money. Her website says, “No district in the country has as many families on Medi-Cal.” That’s exactly the problem. No more FREE healthcare and FREE handouts. People should work for a living. We’ll pass: Valadao is doing great for the Valley. We do not need liberal representatives.
And just what type of higher education degree do you have? And who are you to imply that people on Medi-Cal are not worthy enough to expect good representation in Washington and the right to support and choose who they want to represent them? And you think that Valadao “works” for all of the perks he obtains outside of his paid salary? At least Dr. Bains actually makes a difference for people regardless of their political ties. She doesn’t base who she treats in her medical practice on which political party her patients belongs to and I am very sure that she would take the same principled stand in the job of Representative of the House in Washington DC if she should win that seat. Can’t say that about Valadao, he does no more than the Trump regimen allows him to do. He talks like a good public servant but he only serves his political party. He totes the line he is told to follow, not just some of the time but all of the time. His actions speak louder than his words. .
I wouldn’t vote Democrat if my life depended on it. Now In-N-Out Burger is moving Headquarters out of California to Tennessee. Democrats have run this state into the ground.
No more free healthcare for able bodied freeloaders.
Keep the Central Valley values. Vote Valadao!
Even able-bodied folks qualify for free healthcare because the cost of private health insurance is high , Example: folks average annual salary is under $35,000 and annual average health insurance is $7,000, it’s unaffordable for folks . How about paying folks living wages .
Democrats are scum to a one! What the ge** is a “living wage?” Leftists don’t give their money, they just expect the rest of us to do so; that is their hypocrisy. Say no to communist hypocrit dictators!