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Alameda, Contra Costa County, CA March 7, 2000 Election
United States Representative; District 10


Results as of Apr 10 2:36pm, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (729/729)

Candidates (Vote for 1)
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Ellen O. Tauscher 110,702 votes 54.4%

  • Party: Democratic (100% of votes in party)
  • Occupation: Member of Congress
Claude B. Hutchison, Jr. 36,257 votes 17.8%
  • Party: Republican (41.3% of votes in party)
  • Occupation: Managing Director, Navigant Consulting, Inc.
  • Founder, CivicBank of Commerce
  • Captain, U.S. Naval Reserve
  • Past President, Lafayette School Board
  • Finance Chair, Sutter Health-East Bay
  • MBA Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
  • Born in Oakland, raised in Berkeley
Priorities:
  • Make quality education America's number one priority
  • Reform health care to expand access, reduce costs and protect patient rights
  • Strengthen America's defenses against domestic terrorism, cyber-sabatoge and international terrorists
Gordon Blake 30,532 votes 14.9%
  • Party: Republican (34.8% of votes in party)
  • Occupation: Business Owner
  • Columnist, Valley Citizen Magazine
  • Secretary, Contra Costa County Republican Party
Priorities:
  • Strengthening Our National Defense
  • Reducing Taxes/Eleminating the Marriage Penalty
  • Choice in Education
Dennis M. Kilian 21,039 votes 10.3%
  • Party: Republican (23.9% of votes in party)
  • Occupation: Business Executive
  • President & CEO, Professional Sales Learning Center
  • Vice President, TELUS Corporation
  • District Manager, AT&T
  • Lieutenant Commander, USNR - R
  • MBA, St. Mary's College
  • BS Mechnical Engineering, United States Naval Academy
Priorities:
  • I will bring back local community-based representation - I will listen to you and I will work on your priorities.
  • I will work on getting more of the federal education dollar to the classroom by eliminating federal regulations that don't add value.
  • Other top priorities include reducing traffic congestion, reforming entitlement programs, and improving our military readiness.
Valerie Janlois 5,324 votes 2.6%
  • Party: Natural Law (100% of votes in party)
  • Occupation: Teacher/Project Manager
  • Former CA State Chair for the Natural Law Party
  • Children's Book Author
Priorities:
  • Consciousness-Based Education
  • Prevention Oriented Government
  • Moratorium on Genetic Engineering of Food

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