Combined ballot

See Also:   Information for the County of San Luis Obispo
(Elections Office, local League of Women Voters, links to other county election sites)

President/Vice President of the United States

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Democratic
  8,063,473 votes 61.1%
• John McCain/Sarah Palin, Republican
  4,902,278 votes 37.1%
• Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales, Peace and Freedom
  105,375 votes 0.8%
• Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root, Libertarian
  65,654 votes 0.5%
• Alan Keyes/Wiley S. Drake, Sr., American Independent
  39,620 votes 0.3%
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente, Green
  37,432 votes 0.2%
• Frank Moore/Susan Block (Write-in)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Write-in)
• James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Write-in)
• Ron Paul/Gail Lightfoot (Write-in)

US Legislature

United States Representative; District 22

• Kevin McCarthy, Republican
  224,254 votes 100.0%

United States Representative; District 23

• Lois Capps, Democratic
  168,665 votes 68.0%
• Matt Kokkonen, Republican
  79,589 votes 32.0%

State Senate

State Senator; District 15

• Abel Maldonado, Republican
  215,687 votes 63.1%
• James "Jim" Fitzgerald, Independent
  126,652 votes 36.9%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 33

• Sam Blakeslee, Republican
  114,310 votes 63.9%
• Robert Cuthbert, Democratic
  64,729 votes 36.1%

City

Councilmember; City of Atascadero (3 Elected)

• Roberta Fonzi
  7092 votes 26.03%
• Jerry L. Clay, Sr.
  6373 votes 23.39%
• Bob Kelley
  4969 votes 18.24%
• Len Colamarino
  3416 votes 12.54%
• Pamela Heatherington
  3272 votes 12.01%
• Bret Heinemann
  1988 votes 7.30%
• (138 Total Write-In Votes 0.51%)

Councilmember; City of Grover Beach (2 Elected)

• Karen Campbell Bright
  2288 votes 37.51%
• Debbie Peterson
  2060 votes 33.77%
• Liz Doukas
  1719 votes 28.18%
• (33 Total Write-In Votes 0.54%)

Mayor; City of Grover Beach

• John P. Shoals
  2642 votes 62.06%
• Chuck Ashton
  1597 votes 37.51%
• (18 Total Write-In Votes 0.42%)

Mayor; City of Morro Bay

• Janice Peters
  2571 votes 50.02%
• George Leage
  2523 votes 49.09%
• (46 Total Write-In Votes 0.89%)

Council Member; City of Morro Bay (2 Elected)

• Noah Smukler
  2968 votes 32.91%
• Carla Borchard
  2503 votes 27.75%
• William "Bill" Peirce
  1899 votes 21.06%
• Roger Ewing
  1626 votes 18.03%
• (23 Total Write-In Votes 0.26%)

City Clerk; City of Paso Robles

• Dennis Fansler
  7580 votes 98.93%
• (82 Total Write-In Votes 1.07%)

City Treasurer; City of Paso Robles

• Michael J. Compton
  7638 votes 98.80%
• (93 Total Write-In Votes 1.20%)

Councilmember; City of Paso Robles (2 Elected)

• Fred Strong
  4437 votes 27.31%
• Nick Gilman
  4340 votes 26.71%
• Ed Steinbeck
  3855 votes 23.73%
• Donald S. Fransen
  2059 votes 12.67%
• Daniel J. Franklin
  1523 votes 9.37%
• (34 Total Write-In Votes 0.21%)

Mayor; City of Paso Robles

• Duane Picanco
  3970 votes 40.83%
• Gary Allen Nemeth
  3934 votes 40.46%
• John Borst
  1167 votes 12.00%
• Jim Norman
  624 votes 6.42%
• (29 Total Write-In Votes 0.30%)

Councilmember; City of Pismo Beach (2 Elected)

• Ed Waage
  2452 votes 42.31%
• Ted Ehring
  2372 votes 40.92%
• Wayne King
  943 votes 16.27%
• (29 Total Write-In Votes 0.50%)

Mayor; City of Pismo Beach

• Mary Ann Reiss
  2508 votes 62.97%
• Bill Rabenaldt
  1454 votes 36.51%
• (21 Total Write-In Votes 0.53%)

Councilmember; City of San Luis Obispo (2 Elected)

• Jan Marx
  7095 votes 25.51%
• John B. Ashbaugh
  6402 votes 23.02%
• Paul Brown
  5943 votes 21.37%
• Dan Carpenter
  5568 votes 20.02%
• Arnold Ruiz
  1499 votes 5.39%
• Marcia Nelson
  1260 votes 4.53%
• (46 Total Write-In Votes 0.17%)

Mayor; City of San Luis Obispo

• David Romero
  10808 votes 67.34%
• Terry Mohan
  5125 votes 31.93%
• (117 Total Write-In Votes 0.73%)

Governing Board Member; Coast Unified School District; 4 Year Term (3 Elected)

• Robert L. Gong
  2934 votes 26.01%
• Cindy L. Fratto
  2692 votes 23.86%
• Victoria S. Dandurand
  1570 votes 13.92%
• Daniel C. McDonald
  1495 votes 13.25%
• De De Basile
  1342 votes 11.90%
• Ken Butterfield
  1222 votes 10.83%
• (26 Total Write-In Votes 0.23%)

Governing Board Member; Cuyama Joint Unified School District; 4 Year Term (3 Elected)

• Mike Mann
  222 votes 24.6%
• Judith J. Kidd
  190 votes 21.1%
• U. S. Wilson
  175 votes 19.4%
• Juan R. Gonzalez
  168 votes 18.6%
• Tamra J. Cloud
  146 votes 16.2%

Governing Board Member; Paso Robles Joint Unified School District (4 Elected)

• Tim Gearhart
  8,605 votes 19.0%
• Debi Saunders
  8,084 votes 17.9%
• Ruben F. Tate, Jr.
  6,312 votes 14.0%
• Robert Simola
  6,148 votes 13.6%
• Debbie Ritchie
  5,683 votes 12.6%
• Mark Perry
  5,639 votes 12.5%
• Barbara Harris
  4,651 votes 10.3%
• (123 Total Write-In Votes 0.3%)

Governing Board Member; Pleasant Valley Joint Union Elementary School District (2 Elected)

• Michael Murphy
  208 votes 37.0%
• Vicki Richardson
  194 votes 34.5%
• Robert Velasquez
  151 votes 26.9%
• (9 Total Write-In Votes 1.6%)

Governing Board Member; San Luis Coastal Unified School District; Trustee Area 1 (2 Elected)

• Walter J. Millar
  12123 votes 31.81%
• Phil Angel
  10286 votes 26.99%
• Laurence Houlgate
  9156 votes 24.02%
• Cathy Duncan
  6389 votes 16.76%
• (159 Total Write-In Votes 0.42%)

Governing Board Member; San Luis Obispo County Community College District; Trustee Area 5

• Gaye L. Galvan
  53,247 votes 67.1%
• Daniel R. Chacon
  25,742 votes 32.4%
• (343 Total Write-In Votes 0.4%)

Governing Board Member; San Miguel Joint Union School District (2 Elected)

• Charles W. Brooks
  845 votes 40.6%
• Robert E. Roberson
  676 votes 32.5%
• Sara R. Celedon
  553 votes 26.6%
• (6 Total Write-In Votes 0.3%)

Governing Board Member; Santa Maria-Bonita School District (3 Elected)

• Craig M. Beebe
  9,205 votes 23.1%
• Ken Milo
  8,076 votes 20.3%
• Ike Ochoa
  7,986 votes 20.0%
• David Riloquio
  7,596 votes 19.1%
• Daniel A. Cadena, Jr.
  6,993 votes 17.5%

Special District

Director; Cambria Community Healthcare District; 4 Year Term (2 Elected)

• Kristi A. Jenkins
  2157 votes 41.82%
• Greg Bates
  1819 votes 35.27%
• Paula Taves
  1170 votes 22.68%
• (12 Total Write-In Votes 0.23%)

Director; Cambria Community Services District (3 Elected)

• Muril Clift
  1583 votes 18.52%
• Frank J. Demicco
  1496 votes 17.50%
• Allan S. Mackinnon
  1424 votes 16.66%
• Richard A. Davega
  1355 votes 15.85%
• Joan Cobin
  1092 votes 12.77%
• Ilan Funke-Bilu
  993 votes 11.62%
• Clive N. Finchamp
  583 votes 6.82%
• (23 Total Write-In Votes 0.27%)

Director; Creston Hills Ranch Community Services District (2 Elected)

• Michael Prowse
  12 votes 29.27%
• Tom Blankenship
  12 votes 29.27%
• Jon E. Olson
  9 votes 21.95%
• Nina Courtney
  8 votes 19.51%

Director; Heritage Ranch Community Services District; 2 Year Short Term

• Don Clarke
  362 votes 51.06%
• Dennis Mack
  342 votes 48.24%
• (5 Total Write-In Votes 0.71%)

Director; Heritage Ranch Community Services District; 4 Year Term (2 Elected)

• Richard Gourley
  478 votes 40.89%
• Dan Burgess
  345 votes 29.51%
• Ed Kraemer
  335 votes 28.66%
• (11 Total Write-In Votes 0.94%)

Director; Los Osos Community Services District (2 Elected)

• Marshall E. Ochylski
  3760 votes 32.89%
• Maria M. Kelly
  3250 votes 28.43%
• Karen Venditti
  2613 votes 22.86%
• Alon Perlman
  1253 votes 10.96%
• David B. Duggan
  515 votes 4.51%
• (40 Total Write-In Votes 0.35%)

Director; Oceano Community Services District (3 Elected)

• Jim Hill
  1053 votes 28.54%
• Mary K. Lucey
  1027 votes 27.83%
• Vern Dahl
  858 votes 23.25%
• Bill Bookout
  723 votes 19.59%
• (29 Total Write-In Votes 0.79%)

Commissioner; Port San Luis Harbor District (3 Elected)

• Carolyn Moffatt
  22637 votes 29.43%
• Jim Blecha
  19830 votes 25.78%
• Jack Scarbrough
  19049 votes 24.76%
• Stew Jenkins
  15133 votes 19.67%
• (276 Total Write-In Votes 0.36%)

Proposition 1A Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train
Pass: 6,512,189 / 52.5% Yes votes ...... 5,887,181 / 47.5% No votes

To provide Californians a safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices; to provide good-paying jobs and improve California's economy while reducing air pollution, global warming greenhouse gases, and our dependence on foreign oil, shall $9.95 billion in bonds be issued to establish a clean, efficient high-speed train service linking Southern California, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with at least 90 percent of bond funds spent for specific projects, with federal and private matching funds required, all bond funds subject to an independent audit?

Proposition 2 Standards for Confining Farm Animals
Pass: 8,009,556 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 4,622,352 / 36.6% No votes

Shall certain farm animals be allowed, for the majority of every day, to fully extend their limbs or wings, lie down, stand up and turn around?

Proposition 3 Children's Hospital Bond Act. Grant Program
Pass: 6,805,649 / 55.1% Yes votes ...... 5,536,987 / 44.9% No votes

Shall $980,000,000 in general obligation bonds be authorized for construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping of eligible children's hospitals?

Proposition 4 Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy
Fail: 6,071,863 / 48.0% Yes votes ...... 6,570,777 / 52.0% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to prohibit abortion for an unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent, legal guardian, or, in limited cases, substitute adult relative?

Proposition 5 Nonviolent Drug Offenses, Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation
Fail: 5,015,080 / 40.4% Yes votes ...... 7,407,454 / 59.6% No votes

Shall $460,000,000 be allocated annually to improve and expand treatment programs?

Proposition 6 Police and Law Enforcement Funding. Criminal Penalties and Laws
Fail: 3,728,495 / 30.8% Yes votes ...... 8,365,052 / 69.2% No votes

Shall of minimum of $965,000,000 of state funding be required each year for police and local law enforcement?

Proposition 7 Renewable Energy Generation
Fail: 4,376,814 / 35.4% Yes votes ...... 7,984,617 / 64.6% No votes

Shall government-owned utilities be required to generate 20% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2010, a standard currently applicable to private electrical corporations? Shall all utilities be required to generate 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2025?

Proposition 8 Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry
Pass: 6,838,107 / 52.3% Yes votes ...... 6,246,463 / 47.7% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry providing that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California?

Proposition 9 Criminal Justice System. Victims' Rights. Parole
Pass: 6,518,511 / 53.8% Yes votes ...... 5,602,596 / 46.2% No votes

Shall notification to victim and opportunity for input during phases of criminal justice process, including bail, pleas, sentencing and parole be required? Shall victim safety be a consideration for bail or parole?

Proposition 10 Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Bonds
Fail: 4,966,867 / 40.5% Yes votes ...... 7,303,418 / 59.5% No votes

Shall $5 billion in bonds paid from state's General Fund be authorized to help consumers and others purchase certain vehicles, and to help research in renewable energy and alternative fuel vehicles?

Proposition 11 Redistricting
Pass: 5,957,057 / 50.8% Yes votes ...... 5,759,932 / 49.2% No votes

Shall the authority for establishing state office boundaries be changed from elected representatives to a commission comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and representatives of neither party selected from the registered voter pool in a multilevel process?

Proposition 12 Veteran's Bond Act of 2008
Pass: 7,618,136 / 63.5% Yes votes ...... 4,385,715 / 36.5% No votes

Shall a nine hundred million dollar ($900,000,000) bond be issued to provide farm and home aid for California veterans?

Measure D-08 Size Limits on Commercial Establlishments -- City of Atascadero (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 3727 / 31.74% Yes votes ...... 8015 / 68.26% No votes

Shall the ordinance prohibiting commercial establishments in excess of 150,000 square feet of gross floor area and retail discount stores in excess of 90,000 square feet with at least 5% of gross floor area dedicated to non-taxable goods such groceries be adopted?

Measure E-08 Charter Amendments -- City of San Luis Obispo (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 7238 / 54.50% Yes votes ...... 6042 / 45.50% No votes

Shall sections 201 (and related references throughout the Charter), 407, 410, 505, 601, 701, 709, 901, 906, 1001, 1006, 1202, and 1205 of the Charter of the City of San Luis Obispo be amended to make technical, non-substantive revisions, as set forth in City Council Resolution No. 10007 (2008 Series)?