Fact-check: State Assembly, District 41
Checked 2026-10-28. Claims: 10. Verified: 8. Corrected: 1. Unsupported: 1. Links fixed: 1 (source added).
| # | Claim (short) | Source checked | Status | Evidence / change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Mostly the San Gabriel Valley foothills (Pasadena to Claremont)" (had no source) | Wikipedia AD-41 | Corrected (sourced) | "encompasses most of the San Gabriel Mountains and various foothill communities"; "anchored by Pasadena, its largest and westernmost city". Claremont not mentioned. Rewrote and added the source |
| 2 | Reaches into north Upland and north Rancho Cucamonga | Wikipedia AD-41; KVCR | Unsupported | Neither page names county cities. Kept as the guide's best description, with a note to check the sample ballot |
| 3 | Harabedian (D, incumbent) vs. Vena (R) | CA Secretary of State certified list | Verified | "John Harabedian* Democratic"; "Adam Christopher Vena Republican / Father/Sanitation Employee" |
| 4 | Neither answered KVCR | KVCR AD-41 | Verified | "None of the candidates in this race responded" |
| 5 | Yale, Oxford, Stanford Law | Wikipedia, Harabedian | Verified (secondary) | BA Yale; MSc Oxford (2006); JD Stanford (2010) |
| 6 | Former Sierra Madre mayor | Wikipedia, Harabedian | Verified (secondary) | council 2012, re-elected 2016, "served two terms as mayor" |
| 7 | Former deputy district attorney | Wikipedia, Harabedian | Verified (secondary) | "worked as a deputy district attorney" |
| 8 | Won 2024 with 58.5% | Wikipedia, Harabedian | Verified (secondary) | 58.5% (137,293) |
| 9 | First term; no authored bills in sources checked | Wikipedia AD-41 and Harabedian | Verified | in office since Dec 2, 2024; no bills listed |
| 10 | No Vena coverage found | n/a | Verified (no source found) | none turned up |