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Steve Jones
 
18,593 votes
24.3%
- Occupation: Garden Grove City Councilmember
  
Priorities:
- Keep our streeets and neighborhoods safe
 - Create jobs and foster economic growth
 - Make Garden Grove a better place to live, work, and play
  
 
Chris Phan
 
13,929 votes
18.2%
- Occupation: Military Officer/Attorney
 - US Navy JAGC Officer
 - Board member of Boys and Girls Club of Garden Grove
 - Former Chairman and Board Member of St. Anselm's Cross Cultural Community Center
 - Founding Chairman of the Vietnamese American Armed Forces Association
  
Priorities:
- Increase employment
 - Attract businesses into our city
 - Improve community safety
  
Phat Bui
 
12,244 votes
16.0%
- Occupation: Businessman
 - Chairman of the Planning Commission
 - CEO of a Technology and Management Consulting Corporation in Garden Grove for over 16 years
 - Won Best Innovation Award at the Government Technology Conference 2000
 - Triple Major : Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering
 - Guest Lecturer of Kingston University
 - Years of volunteering and community involvement
  
Priorities:
- Create Jobs and Revitalize Business Districts
 - Streamline Unnecessary Regulations to better serve businesses
 - Improve Public Safety
  
Kris Beard
 
11,144 votes
14.6%
- Occupation: Appointed Garden Grove City Council Member
 - B.A. in Political Science, UC Santa Cruz
 - Public Administration graduate studies at Cal State Long Beach
 - Former Garden Grove Planning Commissioner
 - Former Garden Grove Neighborhood Improvement and Conservation Commissioner
 - Former City Clerk, City of Signal Hill. Elected 1982, re-elected 1986 and 1990.
 - Currently: Administrative Manager, County of Orange (29 years of public service)
  
Priorities:
- Keep working to bring government, business and workers together to bring new revenue into the local economy, create jobs, and keep our taxes low.
 - Protect funding for public safety and fight to keep our neighborhoods safe.
 - Continue to fix our infrastructure, make every tax dollar count and maintain quality public services.
  
Josh McIntosh
 
6,246 votes
8.2%
- Occupation: Small Business Owner
 - Self Employed Mobile Disc Jockey
 - Community Activist
  
Priorities:
- Stop the corruption in city hall
 - Impliment Community Benefit Agreements (CBA) policy
 - Reduce wasteful spending by city
  
Jenny Nguyen
6,082 votes
8.0%
- Occupation: Information Technology Consultant
  
John R. O'Neill
 
5,380 votes
7.0%
- Occupation: Businessman / Electrical Instructor
 - Master Electrician
 - President/CEO
 - Faculty, Rancho Santiago College
  
Priorities:
- Fiscal Responsibility
 - Maintain and improve our Infrastructure
 - No new Taxes and fees
  
Zack B Barrett
 
2,795 votes
3.7%
- Occupation: City of Garden Grove Water Quality Supervisor. 36 years
 - Drill water wells for the community of Haiti
 - Doing mission work bring fresh drinking water to the world
 - Major completed in Water Utility Science at Ranco Santiogo College
 - I have lived in garden grove for the past 54 years
  
Priorities:
- Water Rate Expert
 - Marijuana Issues
 - Infrastructure expert
  
  
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