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Chris Cate is an American elected official in San Diego, California. He served as a member of the San Diego City Council representing City Council District 6 from 2014 to 2022. He is a Republican; although city council positions are officially nonpartisan per California state law.
Cate was raised in San Diego. He attended La Costa Canyon High School, graduating in 2000, then went to community college at MiraCosta and Palomar College colleges. While in college, Cate and a friend started an auto glass repair business. After graduating from college at the University of San Diego, where he became interested in politics, Cate then interned at Jefferson Government Relations in Washington, D.C. Later he worked for Kevin Faulconer as a policy advisor. By 2011, Cate lived in Carlsbad, but moved to Mira Mesa a year later. Before being elected, Cate traveled to the Philippines for the first time, and later met with the Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States Jose Cuisia.
In January 2016, Cate married Maria Cabuang.
In 2016, Cate received national attention as the Chargers attacked him for his opposition to Measure C, a ballot initiative to provide public funding for a new stadium for the team.
The measure failed to achieve the two-thirds needed to pass, receiving less than a majority of the vote; Cate said of the vote "San Diego voters know a bad deal when they see it,". For his willingness to lead the opposition, the Voice of San Diego wrote positively of Cate. After the election, Cate supported an effort to lease the Qualcomm Stadium site for a dollar,
but the Chargers instead decided in 2017 to relocate to Los Angeles.
In his first year in office, Cate's district saw a growth of the brewing industry in his district, with part of it being called the "beer belt". In 2016, while other members of the city council were looking to ban vacation rentals, Cate advanced a proposal to allow for regulated vacation rentals. In February 2017, Cate supported tax reform for Internet taxes, in an effort to ensure the city was receiving a proportionate share of the state's internet tax revenue; Cate argues that with increase commerce online, the city is losing out funding for city services.
According to the San Diego Office of the City Clerk, Cate is a member of the following committees and sub-committees:
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