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Mike Murphy

Republican · California · 2026

Running for California Assembly District 27, California

Top priorities

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  • A bipartisan, cross-aisle approach to representing the district in Sacramento, per SJV Sun
Biography

Mike Murphy is a Republican candidate for California's 27th Assembly District and the former mayor of Merced, per the Los Banos Enterprise. He worked as a small-business lawyer after law school and was elected to the Merced City Council in 2011 before serving as mayor from 2015 to 2020, per SJV Sun.

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