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Lieutenant Governor - the next in line     Elected for 4 years

  • becomes governor if the elected Governor dies, chooses to leave, or is removed from office
  • has a tie-breaking vote in the state senate
  • heads up the Economic Development Commission, which works on the state's economy
  • sits on the boards of the California university systems

CandidatePriorities
DEMOCRAT
Cruz M. Bustamante
Age: 45
Occupation: Lawmaker
Lives in Fresno
  • Create jobs by increasing California's international trade, particularly with Mexico.

  • Make college more affordable for working families and ensuring stable funding for U.C and C.S.U.

  • Protect environmental/economic resources like Lake Tahoe, the same way I protected the coast as Speaker.
    • REPUBLICAN
    Tim Leslie
    Age: 56
    Occupation: Senator/Businessman
    Lives in Tahoe City
  • Improve our schools by requiring higher standards and greater accountability.

  • Reform our courts to ensure swift and certain punishment of violent offenders.

  • Build a more prosperous economy through reduced regulations.
    • AMERICAN INDEPENDENT
    George M. McCoy
    Age: 37
    Occupation: Businessman
    Lives in Anza
  • Protect innocent life from conception to natural conclusion.

  • Remove government from the backs of small businessman by cutting red tape, taxes, and environmental regulation.

  • Promote jobs and economic growth.
    • REFORM
    James J. Mangia
    Age: 35
    Occupation: Director, Free Clinic
    Lives in West Hollywood
  • Provide campaign finance reform, 25% cut in state bureaucracy, term limits.

  • Create more charter schools, return educational decisions to local communities.

  • Support Health Care Reform through strict regulation of HMO's and managed care plans.
    • GREEN
    Sara Amir
    Age: 48
    Occupation: Environmental Scientist
    Lives in Los Angeles
  • End violence against women and children.

  • Ensure universal access to health care and to a living wage.

  • Prevent pollution and outlaw unfair welfare subsidies to corporations.
    • LIBERTARIAN
    Thomas M. Tryon
    Age: 52
    Occupation: Rancher/County Supervisor
    Lives in Angels Camp
  • End "War on Drugs."

  • Restore our economic liberties by respecting private property rights, massively cutting taxes and government spending, and abolishing suffocating regulations.

  • Restore freedom of choice and association by abolishing racial and sexual preferences, and eliminating "victimhood" classes.
    • PEACE & FREEDOM
    Jaime Luis Gomez
    Age: 41
    Occupation: High School Teacher
    Lives in Los Angeles
  • Believe in the right to decent jobs at living wages in a clean safe environment for all.

  • Will open the doors to free education and free health care for all.

  • Support free tuition, expanded, more diverse admissions as a U.C. Regent.
    • Note: Candidates are listed alphabetically within each party. The parties are listed in the order of their size in California.


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