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Location 01 · Sacramento, CA
Rumored sighting
The State Capitol
38.5767° N 121.4937° W
On the record
Case No. SD16-2026 · Status: Open
Missing
Where's
Melissa?
State Senator Melissa Hurtado · Senate District 16
Have you seen this Senator?
Location 02 · Sanger, CA
Used to live here
Sanger, California
36.7066° N 119.5622° W · City Hall
Her old hometown. On the city council here, she voted to support the state's gas tax increase.2 It's rumored that she left Sanger for Bakersfield.4
Location 03 · Senate District 16
Whereabouts unknown
So where is she now?
Kings County and parts of Kern, Tulare and Fresno: the district she was elected to represent. Seen her here?
Report a sightingExhibit A · KGET 17 News · May 17, 2022
Even her own party couldn't find her.
At KGET's 2022 primary debate for Senate District 16, Senator Hurtado didn't show.
Fellow Democrat Nicole Parra told viewers the district was Hurtado's second choice: she first set out to run somewhere else, then changed her mind and moved to Bakersfield.
“We were the second place to the senator.”
“She's been absent from the Senate district for four years.”
Nicole Parra (D), KGET debate, 20225
Debate attendance logSources6
- Primary debateNo-show
- General election debatePulled out
- Primary debateDeclined
- General election debateTurned down
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