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Brad Sherman
 
40,589 votes
42.4%
- Party: Democratic
 - Occupation: United States Congressman/CPA
 - Served on the Board of Directors for California Common Cause from 1984 to 1989, working to reform state campaign finance laws
 - Served on the California State Board of Equalization from 1991 to 1996 and fought to make tax laws fair for middle class families
 - Senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Financial Services Committee
 - Serves as the ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Nonproliferation
 - Graduated from UCLA and Harvard Law School and worked in the private sector for 15 years as a CPA and tax law specialist
 - Married to Lisa Kaplan Sherman with three daughters, Molly, Naomi and Lucy
 - brad@bradsherman.com
  
Priorities:
- Creating jobs and opposing unfair trade deals that ship Valley jobs overseas
 - Reforming Wall Street by cracking down on those who created the financial crisis and breaking up banks that are "too big to fail"
 - Protecting Social Security and Medicare
  
 
Howard L. Berman
31,086 votes
32.4%
- Party: Democratic
 - Occupation: Member of Congress, United States House of Representatives
  
Mark Reed
 
11,991 votes
12.5%
- Party: Republican
 - Occupation: Businessman/Rancher/Actor
 - Married 33 years, father of 3 and grandfather of 7
 - National Rep. for American Indians, Bd member on KCET CAB, Chairman Indian Committee KCET
 - SAG: Past Board member: Finance committe, Women's committee, EEOC committe, Legislative/Governance committe,
 - SAG: Former Chairman American Indian Committe
 - MrCongress@verizon.net
  
Navraj Singh
5,521 votes
5.8%
Susan Shelley
3,878 votes
4.0%
Michael W. Powelson
1,976 votes
2.1%
- Party: Green
 - Occupation: College Professor
  
Vince Gilmore
792 votes
0.8%
  
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