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Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown
1,948,662 votes
84.3%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Attorney General of California
- Former Mayor of Oakland
- Former Governor of California
Priorities:
- We must get California working again--both its government and its people
- We need an honest budget, a government closer to the people
- leadership that can attract investment and new jobs, promote quality education and protect public safety
Richard William Aguirre
93,228 votes
4.1%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Businessman
Charles "Chuck" Pineda, Jr.
92,161 votes
4.0%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Parole Board Judge
- Fellowship: Harvard Law School . Class of"73. Graduate of James A. Garfield where Jaime Escalante later taught.Class of Summer '58.
- Personnel Administration. Harvard Bus. School. Received honors from LAPD and Honeywell Corp. for creating the CYA's Gang Project in ELA/Maravilla..
- 37 years of California State Executive Branch experience!
- Designed and directed the California Youth Authority's first gang violence reduction project in East Los Angeles/ Maravilla (1976-79).
- Served our country in the Eighth Army in the Republic of Korea, 1959-1961
- First American Hispanic to serve as a Parole Board Judge/ Examiner with the United States Parole Commission, United States Department of Justice.
Priorities:
- Fiscal solvency; Cut the fat and waste in government. Create jobs by building desalination plants. Prosecution of entities for farmworkers deaths.
- Veto any legislation that enriches an entity at the expense of the taxpayers. More money from our Federal taxes to our state..
- Keep our children out of the criminal justice system by diverting prison building money into delinquency prevention thus saving billions!
Vibert F Greene
52,659 votes
2.3%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Mechanical Engineer/CEO
- BA Math
- BS Mechanical Engineering
- PHD Researchn Bio-Engineering
- Master of Science in Engineering
- Master of Engineering
Priorities:
- Economic Recovery
- Education Reform
- Immergration Reform
Joe Symmon
52,140 votes
2.3%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Non-Profit Organization President
- Undergraduate: Intercultural Studies, Bible/Theology
- Graduate: Intercultural Studies, Bible/Theology
- Non-Profit Founder/President
- Community Leadreship/Development
- Church Denomination Founder
- Students Body President
Priorities:
- cut taxes to spur our economy, create jobs and take action to promote innovation
- Firstclass Education in California
- Family Protection, spokesperson and advocate
Lowell Dudley Darling
38,981 votes
1.6%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Independent Artist
- MFA, Southern Illinois University
- Hon PHD, National College Naturopathic Medicine
- Hon Discharge, USCG
- 4 Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts
- author: One Hand Shaking
- Candidate for Governor of Calif, 1978
Priorities:
- Reduce the 2/3 majority rule on budgets and revenues.
- Focus on public education. It is necessary in order for democracy to continue. I paraphrase President Eisenhower.
- Franchise the office of Governor for Reality TV. Everything the Governor says, sees and hears, 24/7. All revenues to education.
Peter Schurman
34,438 votes
1.4%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Non-Profit Organization Consultant
- Founding Executive Director, MoveOn.org
- Associate Director at a K-12 school science program
- Clean air advocate at American Lung Association
- National Student Organizer at Sierra Club
- Organizer, Ellen Tauscher for Congress
- M.B.A., Yale, 2000
Priorities:
- Create new green jobs and keep the jobs we have.
- Raise revenues to stop the budget cuts, by making wealthy interests pay their fair share.
- Sign California's "Medicare for All" single-payer health care law.
Nadia B. Smalley
(Write-in)
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: NADIA B. SMALLEY for CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR
- MARIJAUNA LEGALIZATION
- HOMELESS ADVOCATE
- SPECIAL NEEDS ADVOCATE
- LABOR/FARMER ADVOCATE
- CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE
- FAMILY FIRST
Priorities:
- MARIJAUNA IS OUR #1 CASH CROP MARIJAUNA WILL SOLVE OUR BUDGET CRISIS , LEGALIZE & DECRIMINALIZE MARIJAUNA
- EDUCATION
- FAMILY FIRST
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- As the state's chief executive officer, oversees most
state departments and agencies and appoints judges.
- Proposes new laws and approves or vetoes legislation.
- Prepares and submits the annual state budget.
- Mobilizes and directs state resources during
emergencies.
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