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Ed Sullivan
27,948 votes
21.8%
- Party: Republican
(100% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Retired Businessman
Priorities:
Joe Nation
26,078 votes
20.4%
- Party: Democratic
(26.7% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Teacher
- Parent
- Businessman
Priorities:
- Solving North Bay's Transportation Problems
- Improving K-12 Schools
- Safeguarding the North Bay's Environment
Carole Hayashino
23,217 votes
18.1%
- Party: Democratic
(23.8% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Educator / County Commissioner
- Occupation: Director of Development, San Francisco State University; Adjunct Professor, San Francisco State University
- Community Activism: Marin County Human Rights Commission - Vice Chair, S F State Univer Foundation Brd of Dir.,Calif. St. Parks Found., Bell Campaign
- Political Activism: CA St. Library's "Civil Liberties Public Educ. Fund Advisory Brd", Lt. Gov. Bustamonte's "One California"
- Political Experience: Civil Liberties Act-1988, National Redress Committee
- Other Political Experience:Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Japanese American Citizens League
- Awards: Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award, plus other local & natl. awards: for work in human rights
Priorities:
- I teach at San Francisco State University and am determined to improve our higher education system for every qualified student.
- To reduce gun violence, I helped establish the Marin Bell Campaign and introduced a resolution to our Human Rights Commission.
- I will advocate to reduce sprawl which leads to traffic congestion, loss of agricultural land, global warming, and air pollution.
Frank Egger
14,338 votes
11.2%
- Party: Democratic
(14.7% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Mayor/Paramedic Boardmember
- Mayor of Fairfax, currently serving 6th term
- Fairfax Town Councilmember, 9 terms, 1966-2000
- Ross Valley Paramedic Authority, founding boardmember, 1983-2000
- Friends of the Eel River, co-founder & current boardmember
- Vice President, Bakery Wagon Drivers Local #484
- First CA Coastal Commissioner ever appointed, represented Marin, Sonoma & San Francisco counties 1972-1981 (NCCRC)
Priorities:
- Stop urban sprawl; require sustainable communities legislation
- Passage of a statewide Living Wage Law
- Preserve Old Growth Forests; remove dams and save salmon
Barbara Heller
12,127 votes
9.5%
- Party: Democratic
(12.4% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Councilwoman/Businesswoman
- Active in the League of California Cities, elected President of the Mayors and Councilmembers Department for 2000
- Elected President of the Marin County Council of Mayors and Councilmembers in 1996
- Elected President of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1982 and 1983
- Elected to the San Rafael City Council in 1993
- Served on the San Rafael Planning Commission from 1991-1993
- Worked for Senator Milton Marks from 1989-1992
Priorities:
- To work towards a long-range solution for the problems (particularly fiscal) of California's deplorable educational system
- To work towards a solution to the Sonoma/Marin traffic and transportation congestion problem
- A tax shift so that local government has adequate funding from property taxes to maintain essential services during less prosperous times
Paul J. Nave
9,059 votes
7%
- Party: Democratic
(9.3% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Businessman/Prizefighter
- World Champion
- Civic Activist
- Boardmember Marin City Boxing Club
- private pilot JAG
- former teamster
Priorities:
- Fix our traffic congestion nightmare
- strengthen our public schools
- improve the quality of life for our seniors
Susan L. Adams
5,942 votes
4.6%
- Party: Democratic
(6% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Nurse Practitioner/Educator
- Registered nurse in SF Bay Area since 1978
- Women's Health Nurse Practitioner since 1984
- Ph.D in Nursing at UCSF w/ specialty in addiction in families
- Associate Professor at Dominican College, School of Nursing; Adjunct faculty at UCSF teaching in the nursing and medical schools
- Community liason work with treatment programs for chemically dependent women
- Nurse negotiator for UCSF/Stanford first union shop contract
Priorities:
- Health Care Reform
- Quality Education for our Children
- Campaign Finance Reform
Jack Gibson
5,267 votes
4.1%
- Party: Democratic
(5.3% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Attorney/Educator/Water District President
Priorities:
- Relieving Traffic & Congestion Nightmare
- HMO Reform
- Fiscal Accountability
Richard Olmstead
2,517 votes
1.9%
- Party: Libertarian
(100% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Business Owner
Basia Crane
1,825 votes
1.4%
- Party: Democratic
(1.8% of votes in party)
- Occupation: Educator/Traffic Analyst
- 1953 Dunbarton College, BS Chemistry
- 1958 UCLA, Teaching Credential
- 1958-77 Teacher, LA City Schools
- 1954-57 Medical Researcher, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
- 1992 Environmental Forum of Marin, Training Program
- Marin Democratic Central Committee, District 2
Priorities:
- Education: Increase Ca K-12 education funding to at least national average.
- Transportation: create an elected Regional Transportation Authority to consolidate all transportation funding.
- Environment: Regional planning to protect our air, water, forests, land use, and recycling.
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