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California State Government November 7, 2000 Election
United States Senator Voter Information

Results as of Dec 5 1:02pm, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (25702/25702)
Candidates (Vote for 1)
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Dianne Feinstein 5,904,899 votes 55.9%

  • Party: Democratic
  • Occupation: United States Senator
  • Mayor of San Francisco, December 4, 1978 to January 8, 1988
  • Member, Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco, 1970-1978
  • California Women's Board of Terms and Parole, Member, 1960-66
  • Bachelor of Arts in History, Stanford University, 1955
Priorities:
  • Strengthening Public Safety
  • Passing a Patient's Bill of Rights, as well as extending the solvency of Social Security and Medicare
  • Reforming Public Education
Tom Campbell 3,865,528 votes 36.6%
  • Party: Republican
  • Occupation: Congressman
  • Educator
Priorities:
  • Education
  • Campaign Finance
  • Healthcare
Medea Susan Benjamin 323,854 votes 3.1%
  • Party: Green
  • Occupation: Human Rights Activist
  • Founding Director of the San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange
  • Focusing on changing the labor and environmental practices of U.S. multinational corporations
  • Instrumental in organizing protests against the World Trade Organization
  • Worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist in Latin America and Africa
  • Masters degrees in Public Health and Economics
  • Fluent in Spanish
Priorities:
  • Living Wage - Raise the minimum wage to a "living wage" and guarantee all our people the right to a healthy, dignified standard of living
  • Schools not Prisons - Reaffirm our commitment to free public education, recognize teachers as cherished professionals, and invest in schools not jails
  • Electoral Reform - Public financing of political campaigns, free media access, end soft money donations and change to proportional representation
Gail Katherine Lightfoot 186,859 votes 1.8%
  • Party: Libertarian
  • Occupation: Registered Nurse, Public Health Nurse
  • Libertarian Party of California State Central Committee Chair-1990,1995-96, LPC State CC Southern Vice Chair-1993-94, LPC State Secretary, 1989
  • LPC candidate for Congress-1988,1990, 1992, 1996, LPC candidate for Secretary of State-1998
  • Founding member and Chapter President of The American Association of Critical Care Nurses
  • Married with three children, six grandchildren
  • Extended family - husbands three children, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren
  • Legal citings: Lightfoot Vs March Fong Eu-1990, Democratic Party Vs Jones-1997 granted a writ of certiorari for U.S Supreme Court for April 2000
Priorities:
  • Your Rights
  • Health, Education and Welfare
  • The Economy
Diane Beall Templin 133,940 votes 1.2%
  • Party: American Independent
  • Occupation: Attorney/Businesswoman
  • 11/99-7/00 BROTHER BENNO'S FOUNDATION--Manager for the Women's Shelter
  • Juris Doctorate-SUNYAB-trial technique Award , ADVOCATE'S LEGAL SERVICES-providing low cost legal services to middle and lower income families
  • 1985-1995 Foster parent of 68 foster children
  • 1974-1979 LEGAL AID. Managing Staff Attorney-Buffalo, New York- Administrative Hearings and Court Appeals
  • 1985 International Law Studies-University of Strasbourg, France, Simon Greenleaf Law
  • Bachelor of Science- Major- Social Welfare, Minor Psychology at SUNYAB, Buffalo, N.Y.
Priorities:
  • Sanctity of Life
  • Education
  • Restore Constitutional Government
Jose Luis "Joe" (Olivares) Camahort, Ph.D. 96,100 votes .9%
  • Party: Reform
  • Occupation: Consulting Scientist/Engineer
  • 32-year career in Aerospace/Defense
  • Berkeley Ph.D. - Chemical Engineering
  • Top San Beda, Mapua Grad from Manila
  • Proud Grandpa of three Girls
  • Hispanic - Se habla Espaņol
  • Filipino-American - Marunong Managalog
Priorities:
  • End Poverty While Sustaining the Environment.
  • Scrap the Tax Code, Abolish the IRS, Use Transaction Tax. Keep the Govt. out of our pockets until we spend our money!
  • U.S.Treasury Dept. provides free PERSONAL financial services. Keep banks, insurers, & brokers out of our pockets forever!
Brian M. Rees 58,291 votes .5%
  • Party: Natural Law
  • Occupation: Family Physician
  • Colonel, Medical Corps, US Army Reserve
  • Commander, 349th General Hospital (HUM)
  • Author, Heal Your Self Heal Your World
  • American Legion
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars
Priorities:
  • Campaign finance reform
  • Tax reform (tax cuts)
  • Health Care financing reform

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