Voter Information for Barbara S. Matthews. November 5, 2002 Election

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League of Women Voters of California

Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus Counties, CA

November 5, 2002 Election

Barbara S. Matthews

Candidate for
Member; California State Assembly; District 17

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Biographical Highlights

Party: Democratic
Occupation: State Lawmaker
Barbara Matthews was elected to represent the 17th Assembly District of the California State Legislature November, 2000.
She Chairs the Assembly Committee on Agriculture and the Assembly Select Committee on the Future of Farming in California.
She is a member of the Higher Education, Water, Entertainment, and Veterans Affairs Committees.
Barbara is a member of the Board of Directors of Tracy's Arts Leadership Alliance and a member of Soroptimist International of Tracy-Daybreak.
Prior to being elected to the Assembly, Barbara worked in the grocery business for 21 years. She was the Government Relations Manager for Albertson's

Top Priorities if Elected

This year, I was a sponsor of Proposition 42, which requires that state gasoline sales taxes be spent improving our highways, local streets, and mass
As a sponsor of a new Jarvis Initiative, I'm qualifying a proposition to raise the Homeowners' Property Tax Exemption from $7,000 to $32,000
In 2001, when I saw how energy producers were overcharging for electricity, without anyone doing anything about it, I sued.

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