Christopher Cabaldon

Senator Christopher Cabaldon represents Senate District 3, covering parts of Solano, Yolo, Napa, Sonoma, Contra Costa, and Sacramento counties. ^[1,2] The first Filipino American to serve in the California State Senate, Cabaldon was formerly the longest-serving mayor of West Sacramento (1998-2020) and a tenured professor at Sacramento State University. ^[1,3] With an 11% CFC Biblical Values Scorecard rating — tied for the lowest in the Senate — Cabaldon's voting record places him among the most consistent opponents of the California Family Council's core priorities. His record on abortion access, LGBTQ policy advocacy, and expanded government control over education directly conflicts with CFC's framework on the sanctity of life (Chapter 6), God's design for marriage and family (Chapter 7), and parental authority in education (Chapter 8).

Christopher L. Cabaldon was born on November 12, 1965, in California, the son of a Filipino American father and a mother of Czech heritage from Michigan. ^[1,3] His mother died in a car accident in 1979 when he was twelve. ^[3] He earned a B.S. in Environmental Economics from UC Berkeley and a Master's in Public Policy and Administration from Sacramento State University. ^[1,2]

Cabaldon entered government at age 24 as Chief Consultant of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, later served as Chief of Staff to the Appropriations Committee chair, and was appointed Vice Chancellor of the California Community Colleges by Governor Gray Davis. ^[1,2] He later served as President and CEO of EdVoice, a nonprofit education advocacy organization. ^[4,7] As Mayor of West Sacramento for over two decades, he led the city's implementation of universal preschool, college savings accounts for kindergarteners, and tuition-free community college. ^[1,5,6]

Cabaldon was elected to the State Senate in 2024 and assumed office on December 2, 2024. ^[1,2] He chairs the Senate Budget subcommittee on government operations, housing, and economic development, and serves on the Education, Housing, Local Government, and Appropriations committees. ^[1]

His 11.1% Biblical Values Scorecard rating across 27 scored floor votes reflects consistent divergence from CFC's worldview framework. His voting record has supported abortion access expansion over the sanctity of human life, government-directed education over parental authority and school choice, and progressive social mandates over religious liberty protections.

On the issues central to CFC's worldview framework, Cabaldon's record reflects deep and sustained divergence. He is openly gay, came out publicly during his 2006 State of the City address, and served as co-chair of Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign ^[1,3] — identifying himself with LGBTQ advocacy that CFC's framework views as undermining God's design for marriage as the union of one man and one woman (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4-6) and promoting gender identity ideology that denies the created distinction between male and female (Genesis 1:27). His voting record on abortion access has consistently supported the expansion of what proponents call "abortion access" but what CFC identifies as policies that treat unborn children as possessing no moral worth — a direct contradiction of CFC's conviction that human life begins at fertilization and deserves full legal protection (Psalm 139:13-16; Jeremiah 1:5). On education, while Cabaldon's focus on expanding access to preschool and college reflects a genuine concern for children, his approach consistently favors expanding government's role over empowering parents — the opposite of CFC's framework, which holds that parents are the primary educators of their children (Deuteronomy 6:6-7) and supports school choice as an expression of parental authority. His 11% CFC scorecard rating confirms a legislator whose policy vision, however sincerely held, is fundamentally at odds with the biblical values CFC defends.