House special election winner Conway OK with being short-timer - Roll Call

Conway was elected to serve the remainder of Nunes’ term representing the 22nd District as it was configured in 2020 as a Republican stronghold. For the next Congress, the district’s voters have been parceled out among other districts, and the new 22nd will be one President Joe Biden would have carried by 13 points. Conway chose not to run for a full term.

“I’m term-limiting myself right from the start,” she said.

Conway is a well-known local politician with strong Republican roots — and experience in a chamber controlled by Democrats. She said that as minority leader in the state legislature, she told her fellow GOP lawmakers to work across the political aisle.

Deep roots in local government

“When I became leader in Sacramento, I’d preach to the caucus: ‘Hey, if you love your bill, and it’s a good idea, give it away. Because you are a minority player here, and it’s not happening,’” she said. “We want good legislation, but find another teammate to joint-author with you, someone across the aisle, because otherwise it’s probably not going to happen.”

She has known Nunes since he was a child through family connections, she said, watching him go from precocious 4-year-old to the U.S. Capitol. It proved to be a useful connection, leading to her 2019 appointment as the California executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. She helped distribute funding to farmers through mechanisms like disaster relief and conservation programs, but her tenure there was brief, as she was replaced after Biden took office.

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