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Lois Capps
111,768 votes
57.8%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: U.S. Representative
- Registered Nurse
- Master's degrees in Education and Religion
- capps@silcom.com
Priorities:
- Getting the economy back on track through targeted job creation measures, such as tax cuts for small businesses
- Continue rolling our health care reform, such as closing the "donut hole", increasing the residency slots for new doctors
- Finish comprehensive energy legislation
Thomas "Tom" Watson
72,744 votes
37.6%
- Party: Republican
- Occupation: Hi-Tech Entrepreneur
- Retired Naval Officer, Flew F-14's
- US Naval Academy
- MS Systems Management, Univ. of So. California
- MS Aeronautical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
- TOPGUN Graduate, Test Pilot School Graduate
- Helped start two venture backed companies
- tcwatson3@cox.net
Priorities:
- Federal spending must be brought under control and reduced
- Pro-growth tax and fiscal policies must be enacted to encourage growth
- Federal regulations that restrict our freedoms and choices must be eased
John Victor Hager
5,625 votes
2.9%
- Party: Independent
- Occupation: Attorney/Business Owner
- 1967 West Covina High School Graduate
- 1971 Bachelor's degree, University of Southern California
- 1974, Juris Doctor degree, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California
- California attorney since 1974, in Santa Barbara since 1994
- info@hagerforcongress.org
Priorities:
- Repair our economy and improve support for middle class citizens and small business
- Work to reduce our $13 trillion federal debt
- Campaign Finance Reform
Darrell M. Stafford
3,326 votes
1.7%
- Party: Libertarian
- Occupation: Retired Finance Director
- Director of Finance
- Director of Corporate Audit
- Chief Financial Office
- Secretary/Treasurer
- Certified Management Accountant
- California Real Estate Broker
- darrelln99@aol.com
Priorities:
- Go down in history as the "Father of Honest Government"
- Reform our dysfunctional Federal System
- Bring Accountability, Transparency & Representation to government
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5 questions on Economy, Federal Budget, Energy, Health Care, and Campaign Financing.
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