Source: Bay Area Reporter http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=73231.

Also see this piece in IE Light: http://ielightsf.com/2018/02/05/sunnyside-resident-veronika-fimbres-vying-to-be-first-african-american-transgender-california-governor/

“Political Notebook: Transgender nurse eyes CA governorship”

by Matthew S. Bajko m.bajko@ebar.com

[Excerpt] Buoyed by the historic wins last month of transgender candidates across the country, Veronika Fimbres is aiming to become the first transgender governor of California. But first, the hospice nurse and Navy veteran has to get her name on the June primary ballot by the March 9 filing deadline.  

Running as a Green Party candidate, Fimbres in recent weeks has been collecting signatures and raising money to qualify for the race, where the top two vote-getters regardless of party affiliation will advance to the November general election.

“I hope to be governor. You see, right now the time is right,” Fimbres, who dropped her bid for a San Francisco supervisor seat in 2004 due to a lack of support, told the Bay Area Reporter during an interview earlier this month.

Fimbres, 65, who lives in San Francisco’s Sunnyside neighborhood, is currently between jobs and has been focused on ramping up her gubernatorial campaign since pulling papers earlier this fall. She faces seemingly insurmountable odds of surviving the state’s jungle primary June 5.

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