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Brad Sherman
 
149,456 votes
60.3%
- 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
 
98,395 votes
39.7%
- Party: Democratic
 - Occupation: Member of Congress
 - Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs 2008-2011
 - California State Assembly 1972-82
 - UCLA, BA International Affairs, 1962
 - UCLA School of Law, LLB, 1965
 - info@howardberman.com
  
Priorities:
- Create and protect high skill high wage jobs
 - Improve our schools and keep college tuition affordable
 - Keep America safe, at home and abroad
  
  
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