- Party: Democratic
 - Occupation: Educator
 - Professor, California Polytechnic State University
 - Exec. Committee, California Faculty Association (Cal Poly labor union for faculty)
 - Co-founder, San Luis Obispo chapter of Amnesty International
 - Organizer and member of several SLO county Medical Ethics review boards.
 - Key person for U.S. Servas, SLO county.
 - Co-Chair, SLO County Democratic Central Committee
  
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Top Priorities if Elected |   
- Universal free health care insurance for uninsured and underinsured children.
 - Require firms to hire California workers at prevailing wages where public funds finance bridge, highway and other public works construction.
 - Stop the diversion of property tax revenues from local government to our state's general fund so that quality-of -life services can be properly funded
  
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- Issues and Ideas for California 2000
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The basic role of government in the lives of California citizens is to promote and protect equality of opportunity.
  
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- California Faculty Association (24,000 members statewide).
 - Tri-Counties Central Labor Council
 - Planned Parenthood
  
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