Mark DeSaulnier

Mark DeSaulnier worked as a truck driver, hotel employee and probation officer in Massachusetts before moving to California and building a career in restaurants.¹ His restaurant history includes TR's in Concord and the Santa Fe Bar and Grill in Berkeley, alongside membership in the Teamsters and hotel and restaurant workers' unions.¹

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, he earned a history degree at the College of the Holy Cross.¹ He raised two sons in Concord and is an avid marathon runner and reader.¹ He has also publicly connected his 2015 leukemia diagnosis with his advocacy for federal medical research funding.²

His public career includes the Concord City Council, the mayor's office and three terms as a Contra Costa County supervisor.¹ He won election to the Assembly in 2006 and the state Senate in 2008, chairing its Transportation and Housing Committee.¹ He entered Congress in 2015 and now serves on Education and Workforce, Ethics, and Transportation and Infrastructure.³⁴

His transportation work has included advocacy for the Caldecott Fourth Bore, Highway 4 expansion and BART's extension into eastern Contra Costa County.¹ His current agenda emphasizes workers' bargaining rights as AI changes employment, affordable housing, medical research and federal protection for reproductive rights.² He faces Republican business owner Jeff Frese in November's race for California's 10th District.³