Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 66; Republican Party

Firstly, as a write in candidate I need voters to only write in my first and last name, Nancy Knight, and then connect the arrow so the vote will be counted. That business aside please take a few minutes to read about my background, experience, the kind of Republican I offer you, and my platform as a State Legislator.

The greatest issue facing Republicans today is our reputation. "This is not my kind of Republican Party" has become a mantra because of all of the scandals that surround the well-connected but unqualified, vulnerable people who sacrifice their character to support special interests. I have a long standing reputation in the community as an honest activist fighting for the interests of the citizens, not special interests. I oppose Liberty Quarry, supported the Murrieta Recall Measure in 2005 and authored arguments in support of Measure H, a successful ballot measure that protected historical sites in Murrieta.

My extensive education did not come easy. I was a wife, mother, wage earner and re-entry student many times over the course of the twenty five years that it took for me to advance from an Associate of Science degree at the age of 30 to a Bachelor of Science degree at the age of 40 to a Master of Business Administration degree at the age of 50. Today, I am 64 years old. A few years before I retired from my profession as a research and development immunochemist, I used my entrepreneurial spirit and business training to bring citizen media to Southwest Riverside County residents. I am the publisher of The Murrieta Bugle and The Temecula Bugle monthly newspapers that are free to the public with direct mail distribution to 56,000 addresses from Wildomar to the Temecula valley.

I believe in the value of education and I feel privileged to have graduated from both the University of California at Riverside which prepared me for a my profession as an immunochemist and later from the University of La Verne, a private university offering night courses to working adults which provided the foundation for my current profession as a publisher and business owner.

I have also home-schooled a teen age grandchild and believe in choice for parents as well as teachers. It is particularly disappointing that in these hard economic times with the state facing a $15 billion budget deficit all our legislators can think of doing is cutting funding to schools. We should be offering our teachers alternative choices for their profession just as we offer state chartered home-schooling as an alternative to students. We should be opening windows not closing doors on our teachers. My entrepreneurial training and experience would be an asset in advancing opportunities in cost effective delivery of education.

In addition to my position on education choices, I believe in incentives in the form of Performance Grants for Job Creation, Affordable Health Insurance not subsidized care, Roads actually built not just designed on paper and Solar power not higher electricity rates.

I have been married to my husband Bill for 47 years. We have two grown sons and three grandchildren, all residents of Murrieta, where we have resided for 32 years.

Voters have come to understand that endorsements mean you are a part of a political clique. They are turning away from those who have long lists of union and elected official endorsements. I am proud of the membership of the M/T CRA that nominated me when I ran for Murrieta City Council a few years ago and I am proud to have been a successor candidate that received 50% of the vote among four successor candidates in a Recall that Rescue Murrieta had petitioned against councilmember McAllister in 2005.

In 2006, I ran for the Republican nomination for State Assembly and was endorsed by a former neighbor and my role model in my chosen profession as a laboratory scientist, Louise Leigh, a long-standing Republican in LA County and founder of Constitution Day that is celebrated nationally on September 17.

I am running as a write in candidate for the Republican nomination to State Assembly District 66 this time because Republicans need choice but I have limited financial resources to run a full blown campaign against the special interest money of a well-connected candidate. I ask that you visit my website at http://www.thebugle.com and click Assembly Race and then decide who is the better Republican candidate to represent you in Sacramento.

Please visit my website page at http://www.thebugle.com "Assembly Race" and phone me or email me with any questions at 951-677-6046 or nancy@thebugle.com