Candidates
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Dianne Feinstein
3,749,232 votes
51.2%
- Party: Democratic
(95.5% of votes in party)
- Occupation: United States Senator
- Mayor of San Francisco, December 4, 1978 to January 8, 1988
- Member, Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco, 1970-1978
- California Women's Board of Terms and Parole, Member, 1960-66
- Bachelor of Arts in History, Stanford University, 1955
Priorities:
- Strengthening Public Safety
- Passing a Patient's Bill of Rights, as well as extending the solvency of Social Security and Medicare
- Reforming Public Education
Tom Campbell
1,690,344 votes
23.1%
- Party: Republican
(56.2% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Congressman/Educator
- Phone: 650-856-6274; Addr: 1875 S. Bascom, Suite 116-167, Campbell, CA 95008; Email: tom@campbell.org
Ray Haynes
675,984 votes
9.3%
- Party: Republican
(22.5% of votes in party)
- Occupation: California Senator
Priorities:
- Support Proposition 22
- Stop Illegal Immigration
- Lower Taxes
Bill Horn
451,051 votes
6.2%
- Party: Republican
(15% of votes in party)
- Occupation: County Supervisor/Rancher
Michael Schmier
180,405 votes
2.5%
- Party: Democratic
(4.5% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Attorney At Law
- Phone: 510-652-6087; Addr: 1475 Powell Street, Suite 201, Emeryville, CA 94608; Email: mks4senate@aol.com
Gail Katherine Lightfoot
120,132 votes
1.7%
- Party: Libertarian
(100% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Registered Nurse, Public Health Nurse
- Libertarian Party of California State Central Committee Chair-1990,1995-96, LPC State CC Southern Vice Chair-1993-94, LPC State Secretary, 1989
- LPC candidate for Congress-1988,1990, 1992, 1996, LPC candidate for Secretary of State-1998
- Founding member and Chapter President of The American Association of Critical Care Nurses
- Married with three children, six grandchildren
- Extended family - husbands three children, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren
- Legal citings: Lightfoot Vs March Fong Eu-1990, Democratic Party Vs Jones-1997 granted a writ of certiorari for U.S Supreme Court for April 2000
Priorities:
- Your Rights
- Health, Education and Welfare
- The Economy
Medea Susan Benjamin
99,541 votes
1.4%
- Party: Green
(74% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Human Rights Activist
- Founding Director of the San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange
- Focusing on changing the labor and environmental practices of U.S. multinational corporations
- Instrumental in organizing protests against the World Trade Organization
- Worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist in Latin America and Africa
- Masters degrees in Public Health and Economics
- Fluent in Spanish
Priorities:
- Living Wage - Raise the minimum wage to a "living wage" and guarantee all our people the right to a healthy, dignified standard of living
- Schools not Prisons - Reaffirm our commitment to free public education, recognize teachers as cherished professionals, and invest in schools not jails
- Electoral Reform - Public financing of political campaigns, free media access, end soft money donations and change to proportional representation
John M. Brown
68,122 votes
1%
- Party: Republican
(2.3% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Telephone Equipment Salesman
- Protect and defend the U. S. Constitution
- Honary member Nevada Telecommunications Assoc.
- Charter member Calif Tel Assoc. Suppliers committee
- Board member local Shrine Club
- Served USNR WWII and Korea
Priorities:
- Protect and defend the U. S. Constitution
- Jeffersonian: That government governs best which governs least.
- Take the money out of politics without legislation
Linh K. Dao
64,345 votes
.8%
- Party: Republican
(2.1% of votes in party)
- Occupation: High-Tech Entrepreneur
- Caregiver to a seriously ill family member since December 1994
- Court Appointed Special Advocate for children
- BS in Interdisciplinary Engineering - Bioengineering,Bio-Medical Engineering - Purdue University (1980)
- Multicultural, multilingual
- Emigrated to U.S. in 1975
- Born in Saigon, Vietnam
Priorities:
- Quality Education & Campaign Finance Reform
- Affordable Health Care
- Transportation & Privacy
JP Gough
58,637 votes
.8%
- Party: Republican
(1.9% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Businessman/Entrepreneur
- Phone: 858-459-2082; Addr: 7777 Girard Ave., Suite 206, La Jolla, CA 92037; Email: jp@jpgoughforsenate.com
Jose Luis "Joe" Camahort
46,163 votes
.6%
- Party: Reform
(70.4% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Research Scientist/Engineer
- 32-year career in Aerospace/Defense
- Berkeley Ph.D. - Chemical Engineering
- Top San Beda, Mapua Grad from Manila
- Proud Grandpa of three Girls
- Hispanic - Se habla Espaņol
- Filipino-American - Marunong Managalog
Priorities:
- Have a Plan to Sustain the Environment and End Poverty.
- Scrap the Tax Code, Abolish the IRS, Use Transaction Tax
- U.S.Treasury Dept. provides free PERSONAL financial services
Diane Beall Templin
38,634 votes
.5%
- Party: American Independent
(100% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Attorney/Businesswoman
- Phone: 760-480-0428; Addr: 1016 Circle Drive, Escondido, CA 92025; Email: templin@access1.net
Jan B. Tucker
35,005 votes
.4%
- Party: Green
(26% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Licensed Private Investigator
- Co-Author, California Three Strikes Project initiative to limit "Three Strikes" law to "serious" & "violent" felonies
- B.A., cum laude, 1977, Political Science & Chicano Studies double major, CSU Northridge
- Member, Legislative Committee, California Association of Licensed Investigators
- Co-President, San Fernando Valley Chapter, National Organization for Women
- Political Action Chair, San Fernando Valley Branch, NAACP
- Executive Board, Local 39069, Communication Workers of America, Los Angeles Newspaper Guild
Priorities:
- Foreign Policy dedicated to human rights, peace, and ecological protection
- Criminal Justice reform: abolish the death penalty, zero tolerance of civil rights violations, limit "Three Strikes" to serious and violent felonies
- Establish "card check" recognition of unions, criminalize labor/civil rights law violations by employers
Brian M. Rees
26,284 votes
.3%
- Party: Natural Law
(100% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Family Physician
- Colonel, Medical Corps, US Army Reserve
- Commander, 349th General Hospital (HUM)
- Author, Heal Your Self Heal Your World
- American Legion
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
Priorities:
- Campaign finance reform
- Tax reform (tax cuts)
- Health Care financing reform
Valli "Sharp" Sharpe-Geisler
19,474 votes
.2%
- Party: Reform
(29.6% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Educator/Technology Coordinator
- Phone: 408-997-9267; Addr: 4718 Meridian Ave #228, San Jose, CA 95118; Email: siliconv@bona.com
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