{"id":29959,"date":"2014-05-02T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=29959"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T21:26:56","slug":"anna-nevenic-seeks-senate-28-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/05\/02\/anna-nevenic-seeks-senate-28-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Nevenic seeks Senate 28 seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29960\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29960\" alt=\"Anna Nevenic, candidate for the District 28 State Senate seat Photo courtesy of Anna Nevenic\" src=\"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nevenic.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Nevenic, candidate for the District 28 State Senate seat<br \/>Photo courtesy of Anna Nevenic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>California State Senate District 28 is currently vacant and Idyllwild voters will see five names on the June 3 primary ballot. Democratic candidates are Philip Drucker of La Quinta and Anna Nevenic of Palm Springs.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side are three Republicans \u2014 Bonnie Garcia of Cathedral City, Glenn Miller of Indio and Jeff Stone of Temecula \u2014 vying for their party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>During the weeks leading up to the election, the Town Crier is introducing each candidate to the community and concluding with a story illuminating their priorities and policy differences.<\/p>\n<p>Nevenic lives in the desert and has been a nurse and community activist for years. She is no stranger to Hill residents.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2010, she was a candidate in a special election to replace former state Sen. John Benoit, who had resigned to become a Riverside County supervisor. Bill Emmerson won the election in a race against six other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Nevenic finished fourth among the seven candidates. She received 8.4 percent, or 8,076 out of 95,485, votes cast. Without much funding and with little name recognition, Nevenic felt she was at a disadvantage in the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 18 percent of the registered voters voted in that primary,\u201d she noted. \u201cAnd they voted for whom they were told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But focus on a goal is one of her abilities. Born and raised in the former Eastern European country of Yugoslavia, she became a nurse and traveled the world. Eventually she settled in San Francisco, earned a degree from San Francisco State University in political science and German, and married. Her son is a doctor. Divorced, she eventually moved to the desert to enjoy the warmer climate, but her concern for her community and friends never waivered.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the sick and ailing raised her concerns for their conditions and she has always been involved in efforts to improve their lot.<\/p>\n<p>She also wrote four books between 2000 and 2007. The first was about Yugoslavia, and the others ranged from a history of fundamentalism and conservatism to American women who changed the world. The most recent is \u201cParenting Made Simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a children\u2019s advocate,\u201d she said, \u201cvery much in favor of afterschool programs. I want to see every child succeed.\u201d She has invested time and energy in local efforts to improve her community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have compassion for all,\u201d she emphasized. \u201cI wanted to see if I could make a difference. It always starts with just one person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevenic recognizes that the poor and young need advocates. \u201cThey don\u2019t vote and that\u2019s why their agenda is not a priority,\u201d she stressed. \u201cI want to put [public] money where it is needed as opposed to building more jails.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California State Senate District 28 is currently vacant and Idyllwild voters will see five names on the June 3 primary ballot. Democratic candidates are Philip Drucker of La Quinta and Anna Nevenic of Palm Springs. On the other side are three Republicans \u2014 Bonnie Garcia of Cathedral City, Glenn Miller of Indio and Jeff Stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anna Nevenic seeks Senate 28 seat &#8226; Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/05\/02\/anna-nevenic-seeks-senate-28-seat\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"JP Crumrine\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/05\/02\/anna-nevenic-seeks-senate-28-seat\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/05\/02\/anna-nevenic-seeks-senate-28-seat\/\",\"name\":\"Anna Nevenic seeks Senate 28 seat &#8226; 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