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Gary Monahan
 
17,836 votes
21.0%
- Occupation: Father/Restaurant Owner
  
Priorities:
- Fight Gangs & Deport Illegal Immigrant Criminals
 - Expand our Parks and create a new Youth Sports Complex
 - Fight Road Gridlock and improve our Infrastructure
  
 
Katrina Foley
 
15,912 votes
18.8%
- Occupation: City of Costa Mesa Councilmember/Attorney
 - BA English UCLA
 - JD Seattle University School of Law
 - 10 Years as Business Owner & Managing Partner of Lents & Foley, LLP http://www.lentsfoley.com
 - 2004 NAWBO Award Recipient
 - Superstar Award from Health Funders for Advocating for Healthy Families
 - Child's Pace John Upton Award for Enriching the Lives of Costa Mesa Families
  
Priorities:
- Public Safety: Elimination of Gangs
 - Oppose Expansion of John Wayne Airport & Traffic Encroaching on our Residential Neighborhoods
 - Maintain a Balanced Budget so that we can create more parks, playing fields, bike trails, build senior housing, and safe roads.
  
 
Eric Bever
 
14,857 votes
17.5%
- Occupation: Costa Mesa Mayor / Businessman
 - Elected to city council 2004
 - Served on CM Planning Commission 2003-2004
 - Co-Chair, founding member; Westside Improvement Association, 1999
 - President, Westbluff Village HOA, '93-'98
 - B.A. Design  '85 CSUF
  
Priorities:
- Continued Improvement Citywide: Infrastructure, Traffic, Commercial & Residential Revitalization, new and upgraded sports facilities
 - Continue working with OCTA to facilitate tunneling SR55 past our downtown to reduce "cut thorough" traffic on the Eastside, and move regional traffic
 - Continue partnership with ICE to Deport Illegal Aliens who have committed crimes in our community. (nearly 800 flagged in '07-'08)
  
Jim Righeimer
13,000 votes
15.3%
- Occupation: Planning Commissioner/Businessman
  
Lisa Reedy
7,306 votes
8.6%
- Occupation: Businesswoman
  
Chris McEvoy
6,828 votes
8.0%
William Sneen
 
4,088 votes
4.8%
- Occupation: Businessman
 - Served on Citizens Oversight Committee
 - Served on Measure A Committee
 - BSA Troop Committee Chair
 - Commissioner  Of OC Jr. Tennis
 - Funding Board Member of CM High School Foundation
  
Priorities:
- Fiscally Responsible
 - Tough on Crime
 - No Hidden Agendas "COSTA MESA FIRST"
  
Christopher S. Bunyan
 
3,037 votes
3.6%
- Occupation: Businessman/Author
 - Costa Mesa Cultural Arts Committee
 - Costa Mesa Historical Presevation Committee
 - Save Banning Ranch Task Force
 - Leadership Tomorrow's Oustanding Community Leader of the Year 2007
 - Costa Mesa Citizens Police Academy
 - Costa Mesa Citizens Fire Academy
  
Priorities:
- Save Banning Ranch from development and designate area a state park
 - Solve the traffic crisis on the 55 Freeway.  We have to lobby Sacramento to move faster.
 - Find an alternative to the John Wayne Airport.  We cannot allow the current expansion to continue.
  
Nick Moss
1,967 votes
2.3%
- Occupation: Security Systems Programmer
  
  
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