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Former Assembly Speaker-elect Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, right, walks hand in hand with her spouse, Jennifer LeSar, to the rostrum of the Assembly where she took the oath of office as Assembly Speaker at the Capitol in Sacramento, on May 12, 2014. Atkins is running for governor in 2026, while her spouse runs consulting firms that do business with the state.
AP
If elected governor, Toni Atkins faces potential conflicts of interest with her spouse’s consulting firms. Atkins and her spouse, Jennifer LeSar, earn hundreds of thousands of dollars annually from clients that also lobby state government.
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