Buffy Wicks Net Worth 2023, Age, Husband, Children, Height, Family, Parents

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Introduction

Buffy Wicks is an American politician who serves in the California State Assembly. A Democrat, she represents the 14th Assembly District, which includes the cities of Berkeley, Piedmont, Richmond, San Pablo, and El Cerrito in the East Bay. Prior to being elected to the State Assembly, she was an American political strategist who is credited as one of the architects of President Barack Obama’s grassroots organizing model.

Wicks also served on the senior staff of Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns and as Deputy Director at the White House Office of Public Engagement. Wicks was first elected to the State Assembly in November 2018 after beating Richmond City Councilmember Jovanka Beckles, a fellow Democrat.

Early life

Buffy Jo Christina Wicks was born on August 10, 1977 (age 45 years) in Foresthill, California, US. She is the daughter of Wicks graduated from Placer High School in 1995. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1999 with a B.A. degree in political science and history. In 2000, she began a two-year program for an International Master in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies (PEACE Master) of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Castellón, Spain, under the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, but left in 2001 and did not complete the degree.

Career

Buffy Wicks has worked in the labor movement, on women’s issues, and as a children’s rights advocate. Wicks’s started her political career in the early 2000s in the San Francisco Bay Area by organizing rallies against the Iraq War. She then worked on the unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean.

As one of the early hires on the 2008 presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Wicks was active in grassroots mobilization and outcome-based organizing. She ran various state operations during the primaries and general election, including in California, Texas and Missouri. Wicks was then tapped by President Obama to serve in the Executive Office of the President as the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Wicks served as Rahm Emanuel’s campaign manager in the early months of the campaign from 2010 to 2011 and developed core strategy and positioning in race as well as early infrastructure.” In 2012, she joined President Obama’s re-election effort and served as the National Director of Operation Vote. She was responsible for mobilizing voters in demographic groups including African American, Latino, women, and the youth.

Buffy Wicks transitioned the super PAC Priorities USA Action into a pro-Hillary Clinton vehicle and served as its executive director from 2014 to 2015. In 2016, Wicks was named the California State director by Clinton’s presidential campaign in advance of the June 7 primary. She previously worked as the political director of “Wake Up Wal-Mart”, a United Food and Commercial Worker-funded movement.

She was a fellow at the Institute of Politics and Public Policy at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress focusing on public policies affecting women and families. Wicks has published opinion editorials for Time, Politico, and the Daily Beast on current political events. She also gives regular speeches in the United States and abroad on organizing, leadership, women’s issues, and the state of American politics.

In 2017, Buffy Wicks declared herself a candidate for the 2018 California State Assembly election, running for the 15th district. The seat was vacated by Tony Thurmond, who ran for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Wicks’s opponents in the race included Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb and Richmond City Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles. In the primary held on June 5, Wicks finished first with 31.4% of the vote. In the general election on November 6, Wicks won with 54% of the vote to Beckles’s 46%.

On August 31, 2020 (the final day of the legislative session), Wicks, having been previously denied the right to vote by proxy, appeared on the floor of the State Assembly holding her crying newborn baby while speaking in favor of passing housing legislation. This incident earned Wicks international attention, sparking a discussion in the media on how she might use her newfound reputation to advocate for expanding family leave protections in the United States. Meena Harris, Hillary Clinton, and others took to social media to congratulate and encourage Wicks.

In her second term, Wicks served as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development. On April 22, 2022, a convoy of anti-abortion truckers attempted to demonstrate in front of her house but were driven away by egg-wielding children. Wicks was the author for several pieces of housing legislation including AB 2011.

Controversies

Buffy Wicks sponsored a bill that would require all workers in California to be vaccinated with the Covid-19 vaccines. The Bill was “postponed” after the bill faced stiff opposition from labor unions as the Omicron variant crested in the heavily vaccinated state. Anti-abortion commentators generated controversy when Wicks introduced AB 2223, a bill intended to protect women from criminal prosecutions for experiencing a miscarriage or inducing an abortion.

Under the current law at the time, stillbirths after 20 weeks are considered “unattended deaths” and a coroner is required to investigate. AB 2223 would have reclassified stillbirths such that they are no longer investigated as a matter of course, although it does not explicitly prevent stillbirths from being investigated. While the bill ‘still allows authorities “to be able to investigate the facts of a newborn child’s death, including whether the child was born living and when and how the child died,”’ it was widely and falsely characterized by anti-abortion commentators as legalizing infanticide.

The text of the bill said, ” Notwithstanding any other law, a person shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or penalty, or otherwise deprived of their rights under this article, based on their actions or omissions with respect to their pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero.” According to the medical dictionary, perinatal refers to the period from the 22nd week of gestation through the first 28 days after delivery.

Husband

Buffy Wicks is a married woman. She and her husband Peter Ambler had their wedding in the US. The couple has two children together. She st ands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits her personality. As of July 2023, Buffy and her husband Peter Ambler are still married and living a happy life with their children.

Buffy Wicks net worth

How much is Buffy Wicks worth? Buffy Wicks’s net worth is estimated at around $3 million. Her main source of income is from her primary work as a politician. Buffy Wicks’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $395,000 dollars annually. Her remarkable achievements have earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. She is one of the richest and most influential politicians in the United States.