特稿｜马世云：从纽约移民之女到加州副州长 一位华人会计的公职路
美联社已经判定：民主党人、现任加州州财务长马世云（Fiona Ma）当选加州副州长。按美联社计票快照，她获得4,905,037票、得票率63.8%，共和党人 Gloria Romero 获得2,783,155票、得票率36.2%，两人相差约212万票；CBS 亦作出相同预测。以上均为媒体判定，不是官方认证——州务卿将于12月11日认证全部结果，计票仍在继续。
对加州选民来说，马世云首先是一名会计：自2019年以来，她是掌管加州钱袋的财务长；2027年1月就职后，她将成为加州第二高的州级官员，也是加州首位经选举产生的亚裔副州长、第二位经选举产生的女性副州长。她将接替任期届满的 Eleni Kounalakis——后者本届当选财务长，两人恰好互换了职位。
纽约的长女，三张学位
马世云1966年3月4日出生于纽约市，是家中三个孩子中的长女，父母均为中国移民，祖籍中国云南大理。她先后就读于 Baker Elementary School 和 Great Neck North 中学，拿下 Rochester Institute of Technology 会计学学士、Golden Gate University 税务学硕士和 Pepperdine University 工商管理硕士三张学位，1992年起成为加州注册会计师。
旧金山：从账房到参事
进入公职之前，她在 Ernst & Young 会计师事务所任职，后开设自己的会计师事务所。1994年，她出任亚裔商业协会会长；1995年，San Francisco 参事委员会任命她进入估值上诉委员会。2002年，她当选 San Francisco 参事委员会（市议会）第4区委员，任期至2006年。任内她起草了面向女性和少数族裔企业主的本地企业条例，并推动立法，要求新开按摩场所取得附条件使用许可，以打击经由按摩店进行的人口贩运。
州议会里的会计
2006年，她当选加州州众议院第12区众议员，连任三届至2012年。2010年3月，她出任众议院临时议长（Speaker pro Tempore），成为担任这一众议院第二高职位的第一位亚裔女性。任内她起草了全美首创的法律，禁止在婴儿用品中使用邻苯二甲酸盐；作为众议院家暴问题特别委员会主席，她推动加强保护家暴受害者的法律，其中2012年的 AB 593 法案扩大了狱中家暴幸存者的权利。
算账的人：平税局与财务长
2014年11月4日，马世云当选加州平税局（Board of Equalization）第2区委员，得票1,448,657张、得票率68.5%，任期2015年至2019年。2016年2月24日，平税局推选她为主席，任期一年；任内她下令对该机构进行三项外部审计。她是历史上仅有的两位当选平税局委员的注册会计师之一。
2019年1月7日，马世云就任加州第34任财务长，是加州首位女性财务长，也是首位少数族裔女性财务长。作为州政府的首席银行家与融资负责人，她经手的年度交易规模逾3.9万亿美元，管理1,240亿美元未偿一般责任与租赁收益债券，并在16个与住房、交通、经济发展和环境融资相关的委员会任职。任内她推动可负担住房融资和首付援助项目，并主持由加州教育设施局管理的大学入学税收抵免基金：捐款人可获得50%的加州州税抵免，其资助的传统黑人大学转学助学金，面向完成副学士转学路径、转入合作的传统黑人大学并打算学成后返回加州的社区大学生，最高5,000美元。
她与华裔社区最深的一条线
她是 San Francisco「乙肝免费」（Hepatitis B Free）运动的荣誉主席与代言人。乙型肝炎在亚裔人群中患病率偏高，多年来她持续推动在亚裔社区做乙肝筛查与防治——这是她与华裔社区之间最深的一条连接。
竞选：58个县与一张政纲
2023年6月，马世云宣布竞选2026年加州副州长。2026年6月2日初选为前两名晋级制，她以得票第一出线。竞选期间她走遍加州58个县；选举日后她发文感谢选民，称自己对能担任下一任副州长「深感荣幸」。
按她在州务卿选民指南中的候选人声明，她的政纲以可负担性为核心：延续可负担住房融资、扩大首付援助，提议通过大学合作创收、应对住房与学费成本，并呼吁冻结学费。在两项全州提案上，她与 Romero 同反对第40号提案（对亿万富翁资产一次性征税），但在第39号提案（投票须出示政府签发的身份证件）上立场相左：她反对，Romero 支持。
对手 Romero 现年71岁，曾代表洛杉矶县出任州众议员和州参议员，2005年至2008年担任州参议院多数党领袖，是担任该职务的首位女性。2024年，她以在犯罪、性别认同、新冠限制和学校选择等问题上存在分歧为由退出民主党，转投共和党参选。
副州长：下一本账
按加州副州长办公室的职责介绍，副州长主持州参议院并在平局时投票，州长出州期间担任代理州长，州长职位出缺时继任；同时兼任加州大学董事会、加州州立大学董事会和加州社区学院董事会的成员，以及州土地委员会委员，并主持加州经济发展委员会。
从1995年第一次进入旧金山公职机构算起，到2026年当选副州长，这条路她走了三十一年；从纽约移民家庭的长女，到加州第二高的职位，这也是几代华人移民在美国公共生活中一步步走进决策中心的历史。
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Feature | Fiona Ma: From Immigrant Daughter in New York to California Lieutenant Governor — An Accountant in Public Life
The Associated Press has called it: Democrat Fiona Ma, California's current state treasurer, has been elected lieutenant governor of California. In the AP's vote-count snapshot, she received 4,905,037 votes, 63.8 percent, against Republican Gloria Romero's 2,783,155 votes, 36.2 percent — a margin of about 2.12 million votes. CBS News made the same projection. These are media calls, not official certification: the Secretary of State certifies all results on December 11, and counting continues.
To California voters, Ma is first of all an accountant: since 2019 she has been the treasurer in charge of the state's money. When she takes office in January 2027, she will be California's second-highest statewide officer, the first Asian American elected lieutenant governor in state history and the second woman elected to the office. She succeeds the termed-out Eleni Kounalakis — who was herself elected treasurer this cycle; the two have effectively swapped offices.
The Eldest Daughter in New York, Three Degrees
Fiona Ma was born in New York City on March 4, 1966, the oldest of three children of William and Sophia Ma, both Chinese immigrants; her family's ancestral home is Dali, Yunnan, in China. She attended Baker Elementary School and Great Neck North Middle and High Schools, and earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University and a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. She has been licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in California since 1992.
San Francisco: From the Ledger to the Board of Supervisors
Before entering public office, she worked as an accountant at Ernst & Young and later opened her own accounting practice. In 1994 she was elected president of the Asian Business Association, and in 1995 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors appointed her to the city's Assessment Appeals Board. In 2002 she was elected to the Board of Supervisors from District 4, serving until 2006. There she authored the Local Business Enterprise ordinance on behalf of women and minority business owners, and advanced legislation requiring conditional use permits for new massage establishments, aimed at stopping human trafficking conducted through massage parlors.
The Accountant in the Assembly
In 2006 she was elected to the California State Assembly from the 12th District and served three terms through 2012. In March 2010 she became Speaker pro Tempore — the first Asian American woman to hold the Assembly's second-highest post. She authored the nation's first law banning phthalates, a toxic chemical, in baby products. As chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Domestic Violence, she strengthened laws protecting victims of domestic violence, including AB 593 (2012), which expanded the rights of incarcerated domestic violence survivors to petition a court to recall and resentence convictions where expert testimony on domestic violence had been limited or absent.
The Numbers Person: Board of Equalization and Treasury
On November 4, 2014, Ma won election to District 2 of the California State Board of Equalization with 1,448,657 votes, 68.5 percent, serving from 2015 to 2019. On February 24, 2016, the Board selected her as its chair for a one-year term, during which she ordered three external audits of the agency. She is one of only two CPAs ever elected to the Board.
On January 7, 2019, Ma took office as California's 34th State Treasurer — the first woman, and the first woman of color, to hold the office. As the state's chief banker and financier, she handles more than $3.9 trillion in annual transactions, oversees $124 billion in outstanding general obligation and lease revenue bonds, and serves on 16 boards, commissions and authorities related to housing, transportation, economic development and environmental financing. Her tenure advanced affordable housing financing and down-payment assistance programs, and she chairs the College Access Tax Credit Fund administered by the California Educational Facilities Authority: donors receive a 50 percent California state tax credit, and the Cal-HBCU transfer grants it funds offer up to $5,000 to community college students who complete an associate-degree transfer pathway, transfer to a partner historically Black college or university, and intend to return to California after graduation.
Her Deepest Tie to the Chinese American Community
She is honorary chair and spokesperson for San Francisco's Hepatitis B Free campaign. Hepatitis B rates run high in Asian American communities, and for years she has pushed screening and prevention there — her deepest single tie to the Chinese American community.
The Campaign: 58 Counties and One Platform
In June 2023, Ma announced her campaign for California lieutenant governor in 2026. In the June 2, 2026 top-two primary she finished first and advanced. During the campaign she traveled to all 58 California counties, and after Election Day she posted a message thanking voters, saying she was humbled to serve as the next lieutenant governor.
In her candidate statement in the Secretary of State's voter guide, her platform centered on affordability: continuing affordable housing financing, expanding down-payment assistance, proposing university partnerships to generate revenue and address housing and tuition costs, and calling for a tuition freeze. On two statewide propositions, she and Romero both opposed Proposition 40, a one-time tax on billionaires' covered assets, but split on Proposition 39, which would require government-issued identification to vote: Ma opposed it, Romero supported it.
Romero, 71, represented Los Angeles County in the Assembly and the Senate, and served as Senate majority leader from 2005 to 2008, the first woman to hold that post. In 2024 she left the Democratic Party, citing disagreements over crime, gender identity, COVID-19 restrictions and school choice, and ran as a Republican.
Lieutenant Governor: The Next Ledger
According to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the officeholder presides over the state Senate and casts tie-breaking votes, serves as acting governor when the governor is out of state, and succeeds to the governorship if a vacancy occurs. The officeholder also sits on the governing boards of the University of California, California State University and the California Community Colleges, serves on the State Lands Commission, and chairs the California Commission for Economic Development.
Counted from her first appointment to a San Francisco public body in 1995 to her election as lieutenant governor in 2026, this road has taken her thirty-one years — from the eldest daughter of a Chinese immigrant family in New York to the second-highest office in California, a path by which generations of Chinese immigrants have step by step entered the centers of American public decision-making.
Produced by The Star.
来源：加州财务长办公室
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图片来源：马世云官方肖像（加州财务长办公室官方照片，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons）
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