{"id":11369,"date":"2026-06-01T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11369"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:02:19","slug":"an-occupational-hazard-even-in-california-women-in-elected-office-face-more-abuse-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11369","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018occupational hazard\u2019: Even in California, women in elected office face more abuse than men"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June 2022, a week after Dev Davis was eliminated from San Jose, California\u2019s mayoral contest, the then-city council member noticed six police cars outside her home. She called her designated police captain \u2013 her point person for any safety concerns \u2014 who told her he would find out what was going on.<\/p>

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\u201cYou and your family need to evacuate your house,\u201d she recalled him saying when he called back five minutes later. \u201cWe\u2019re calling in the bomb squad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davis\u2019s neighbor had found a suspicious package less than 50 feet away from her house: a small, cylindrical object, wrapped in duct tape, with a partially-burnt fuse, according to police records.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/figure>\nFor women in elected office in the Bay Area, instances of threats and abuse take many forms: calls and emails with violent language or death threats, unruly protests outside their family homes, political mailers that share personal information with the general public, or in the case of Davis, action intending to cause injury or harm. Many rise to the level of law enforcement presence, criminal charges or restraining orders \u2014 and shake their sense of safety for themselves and their family.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t feel safe in your own home,\u201d Davis said. \u201cYou don\u2019t feel safe for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

These threats and abuse take a mental toll on the elected officials they target. More broadly, the culture can dissuade diverse candidates from running for office or working on divisive issues, experts and elected officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing people being reluctant to run for office when their families are put in harm\u2019s way,\u201d said Maya Kornberg, a senior research fellow and manager for the Brennan Center for Justice\u2019s Elections and Government Program. \u201cAlmost half of women in local office that we surveyed expressed some level of reluctance to run for reelection or remain in office because of abuse.\u201d<\/p>

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Women are targeted more frequently and with different types of abuse than men, according to a 2024 research report conducted by the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan policy organization housed at New York University\u2019s School of Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolitics continues to be a man\u2019s world,\u201d said Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas. \u201cWhen you take a look at the crimes that are committed in this world, the majority of them are committed against women, and I think this is a microcosm of the world. It\u2019s no different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some women who spoke to the Bay Area News Group attributed the rise in vitriol over the last decade to a change in political rhetoric led by President Donald Trump, whose verbal attacks on women often rely on comments about them being \u201clow IQ\u201d or criticism of their looks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world shifted under Trump 1.0 in terms of the level of political hate and vitriol that people seem to be willing to engage in,\u201d said California State Assemblymember Mia Bonta. \u201cThere\u2019s been more broadly a fundamental attack on women and somehow a kind of normalizing of saying violent things and abusive things towards women.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cWomen as well as people of color experience more abuse, and this is true in terms of total numbers of threats, but they also experience different kinds of abuse,\u201d said Kornberg, \u00a0a co-author of the 2024 study. \u201cIt\u2019s not just more abuse, it\u2019s also different kinds of abuse that target these particular parts of their identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among local officeholders, 23% of women reported receiving threats \u2014 defined in the study as expressions with an intent to imminently harm someone \u2014 compared with 16% of men, researchers found. One-quarter of elected officials of color reported threats, while 18% of white officeholders reported threats. In state offices, though men reported higher levels of threats and attacks, more women than men experienced harassment and insults. \n

\u201cThe tone and tenor of emails we receive can be very aggressive,\u201d said Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas.<\/p>\n

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Most of these threats are reported through official channels, such as law enforcement or through a government agency where the elected official works where they can be monitored and investigated. But some menacing messages \u2013 such as death threats \u2013 can demand the attention of the courts.<\/p>\n

Noelia Corzo, president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, was used to receiving contentious messages at public meetings, such as being told to \u201cshut the f\u2014 up\u201d or \u201crepent,\u201d she said. Those incidents happen frequently enough that they were \u201cjust noise,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

But while working on local issues related to the removal of the former San Mateo County Sheriff \u2014 Christina Corpus, whose ouster was a contentious fight in the county \u2014 Corzo received a death threat, she said, that led her to obtain a restraining order.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in a lower income neighborhood. I have thick skin,\u201d Corzo said. \u201cWhat made it most difficult was thinking that it could impact my son and my loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\nShara Watkins, a former member of the San Mateo Foster City School Board, noted that publicly available information can be used against elected officials: \u201cEveryone knows where you live. Everyone can find you,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a level of vulnerability and visibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

During California State Assemblymember Liz Ortega\u2019s campaign leading up to the 2022 election, an independent expenditure sent out a mailer to millions of voters in her district featuring her address alongside messaging she worried could galvanize someone to show up to her house.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fear wasn\u2019t really as much for me as it was for my family,\u201d Ortega said. \u201cAs a candidate, I felt, \u2018Okay, fair game, you\u2019re going to attack me.\u2019 But putting my home address, directing people to my home when a lot of times it was my elderly mother or my daughter who was home alone \u2013 that really scared me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a legal question, and then there\u2019s the political climate that we\u2019re in today,\u201d she added. \u201cThere\u2019s the moral question of taking our safety into consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The threats received in the Bay Area primarily target contentious issues that legislators are working on, but they also target elements of the recipients\u2019 identities, such as their race or gender. Women of color in local elected office are more likely than white women, men of color and white men to experience threats, Kornberg said.<\/p>\n

As an immigrant, Ortega said, she has been targeted with comments such as, \u201cAre you even a citizen?\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re not a real American.\u2019<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s a representation of where we are in politics today with our current administration,\u201d Ortega said. \u201cWhen you have the highest person in office, the most powerful person in the world, making derogatory comments about immigrants, about women, about LGBTQ, anything that he doesn\u2019t deem to be worthy of his standards, (they) become the target.\u201d\n

Watkins was advocating to remove school resource officers from school campuses during the Black Lives Matter movement, she said, when a man started to leave \u201cranting voice messages\u201d on her personal cell phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are the moments that make you question why you\u2019re doing this,\u201d she added. \u201cIs it worth it for my children (to be) in harm\u2019s way potentially and expose them to this for no fault of their own?\u201d<\/p>\n

Watkins said she was the only person targeted \u2014 though she was not the only board member to vote in support of the resolution, she was the only Black woman on the board.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou draw those lines, even if somebody isn\u2019t saying, \u2018This is why I\u2019m doing this,\u2019\u2009\u201d Watkins said. \u201cThere are many, many things people said to me or ways that they interacted with me that would have never happened if I had been a white man, but you can\u2019t prove that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For many lawmakers interviewed, the majority of threats they have received have targeted specific issues or policies they were working on.<\/p>\n

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks\u00a0was working on two bills on vaccine mandates and abortion in 2022 when a brigade of truckers caravaned to her family\u2019s home in Oakland. Working on abortion bills has been a \u201clightning rod\u201d for threats because it hits on both a controversial issue and her identity as a woman, she said.<\/p>\nWhen the truckers pulled into Wicks\u2019s sleepy neighborhood \u2014 about ten minutes before law enforcement arrived on scene \u2014 they began blasting their horns and yelling into megaphones, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re really in your face, and you\u2019re looking at these people and you\u2019re like, \u2018Are they armed?\u2019 \u201d Wicks said. \u201cShould I go outside? Should I stay here?\u201d<\/p>\n

The brigade left the neighborhood after a contingent of middle school students started egging the trucks, Wicks said.<\/p>\n

Threats against family members are more common among women serving in elected positions than men, with the study finding that 12% of women reported threats against their family members compared to 8% of men.<\/p>\n

Before she rose to prominence as a state assemblymember, Bonta was already in the public spotlight as the spouse of an elected official, state Attorney General Rob Bonta, who had served on the Alameda City Council and in the state Assembly. Mia Bonta had to deal with receiving threatening texts to her personal phone, menacing social media posts and threats against the lives of her children, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes it to another level as a mother, and as a human being \u2013 a parent \u2013 when my children, whose only connection to a particular threat is somebody being unhappy about a policy stance or my very existence, (are threatened),\u201d Bonta said. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond the pale, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June 2023, a man downloaded a photo of San Jose Vice Mayor Pam Foley\u2019s family from her campaign website and cropped it to focus on her adult daughter, sending it alongside \u201creally threatening\u201d language, Foley said. Police investigated, but no one was arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t do this work because you think your life is (going to be) threatened, but people are very passionate about their issues and don\u2019t set boundaries,\u201d Foley said. \u201cIt\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watkins, who moved to Southern California after her term on the school board was over, decided to take \u201cquite a break\u201d from her involvement in local politics, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard enough to be an elected official, and then you add on all of the lead layers of prejudice, bias and people feeling like they have the right to make you feel unsafe and uncomfortable,\u201d Watkins said. \u201cYou have to take care of yourself first.\u201d<\/p>\n

For others, the threats can have the opposite effect, encouraging them to focus more on their policy work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be lying if I said that I have the same sense of safety that I had before beginning my role as supervisor,\u201d Corzo said. \u201cBut nothing that will ever prevent me from doing the work that I feel is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities eventually determined that the mysterious package left outside Davis\u2019s house was an improvised explosive device capable of causing \u201cgreat bodily injury or death if detonated,\u201d according to police records. The bomb was transported to SJPD\u2019s bomb disposal range, where it was rendered safe.<\/p>\n

Detectives did not make an arrest in the case until January 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was really disconcerting, especially because I was still a public official,\u201d she said. \u201cThat person knew where I lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Davis and other women in elected office, that\u2019s an \u201coccupational hazard,\u201d she said \u2014 one she thinks about when weighing if she wants to return to elected office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just something you have to deal with if you\u2019re a woman running for office,\u201d Davis said. \u201cI\u2019m never going to forget that there was a bomb outside my house.\u201d<\/p>

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