Emergency room nurse Sue Zwahlen is joining the race to try to unseat Central Valley Republican Rep. Jeff Denham. Zwahlen, a 63-year-old Democrat, has been elected twice to the Modesto City Schools Board of Education. Zwahlen was born in Modesto and attended nursing school at the Samuel Merritt Hospital School of Nursing in Oakland. She's been an emergency room nurse for more than 40 years. She is the second nurse who has signed up to run against Denham.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 29, 2017 22:41 UTC