Official List of Candidates for Calif. Recall Election

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Final List of Candidates for California Recall Election
The Associated Press
Published: Aug 14, 2003

The 135 candidates who will appear on the Oct. 7 recall ballot, as provided by the California secretary of state. Listed are each candidate's occupation and the county where he or she filed:

DEMOCRATS

Vikramjit S. Bajwa, businessman, Sonoma

Audie E. Bock, educator-businesswoman, Alameda

Art Brown, film writer-director, Los Angeles

Cruz M. Bustamante, lieutenant governor, Sacramento

Robert Cullenbine, retired businessman, Santa Clara

Bob Lynn Edwards, attorney, Alameda

Warren Farrell, fathers' issues author, San Diego

Dan Feinstein, not provided, San Francisco

Larry Flynt, publisher, Los Angeles

Lorraine Fontanes, film maker, Los Angeles

Diana Foss, not provided, Santa Clara

Gerold Lee Gorman, engineer, Contra Costa

James Henry Green, firefighter-paramedic-nurse, San Francisco

Garrett Gruener, high-tech entrepreneur, Alameda

Joe Guzzardi, teacher-journalist, San Joaquin

Ralph A. Hernandez, district attorney inspector, Contra Costa

Edward Thomas Kennedy, businessman-educator, Trinity

David E. Kessinger, paralegal-property manager, Riverside

Kelly P. Kimball, business executive, Los Angeles

Eric Korevaar, scientist-businessman, San Diego,

Dick Lane, educator, Santa Clara

Gary Leonard, photojournalist-author, Los Angeles

Calvin Y. Louie, certified public accountant, San Francisco

Frank A. Macaluso Jr., physician, Tulare

Paul "Chip" Mailander, golf professional, San Diego

Robert C. Mannheim, retired businessman, Los Angeles

Bruce Martin Margolin, marijuana legislation attorney, Los Angeles

Paul Mariano, attorney, Contra Costa

Scott A. Mednick, business executive, Los Angeles

Jonathan D. Miller, business owner, San Mateo

John "Jack" Mortensen, contractor-businessman, Sacramento,

Paul James Nave, businessman-former boxer, Marin

Ronald Jason Palmieri, gay rights attorney, Los Angeles

Charles Chuck Pineda Jr., state hearing officer, Sacramento

Bill Prady, producer, television writer, Los Angeles

Daniel C. Ramirez, businessman-entrepreneur, Imperial

Christopher Ranken, planning commissioner, San Mateo

David Laughing Horse Robinson, tribal chairman, Kern

Georgina Russell, software engineer, Santa Clara

Darrin H. Scheidle, businessman-entrepreneur, San Diego

Mike Schmier, attorney, Alameda

Christopher Sproul, environmental attorney, San Francisco

Lawrence Steven Strauss, lawyer-businessman-student, Los Angeles

Tim Sylvester, entrepreneur, Santa Cruz

A. Lavar Taylor, tax attorney, Orange

Marc Valdez, air pollution scientist, Sacramento

William B. Vaughn, structural engineer, Contra Costa

Jim Weir, community college teacher, Nevada

Lingel H. Winters, consumer business attorney, Alameda

Michael J. Wozniak, retired police officer, Alameda

REPUBLICANS

Alex St. James, public policy strategist, Los Angeles

Douglas Anderson, mortgage broker, Ventura

John W. Beard, businessman, Los Angeles

Ed Beyer, chief operations officer, Orange

Vip Bhola, attorney-business owner, Los Angeles

Cheryl Bly-Chester, businesswoman-environmental engineer, Placer

Todd Carson, real estate developer, Orange

William S. Chambers, railroad switchman/brakeman, Placer

D. Logan Darrow Clements, businessman, Los Angeles

Robert A. Dole, small business owner, Santa Clara

Gene Forte, executive recruiter, Monterey

Richard Andrew Gosse, educator, Marin

Jim Hoffmann, teacher, San Joaquin

S. Issa, engineer, Los Angeles

Michael Jackson, satellite project manager, Los Angeles

Stephen L. Knapp, engineer, Santa Clara

Gino Martorana, restaurant owner, Fresno

Tom McClintock, state senator, Ventura

Dennis Duggan McMahon, banker, San Francisco

Mike McNeilly, artist, Los Angeles

Carl A. Mehr, businessman, San Diego

Jeffrey L. Mock, business owner, Los Angeles

Dorene Musilli, educator-businesswoman, Sonoma

Robert C. Newman II, psychologist-farmer, Riverside

Gregory J. Pawlik, realtor-businessman, Los Angeles

Heather Peters, mediator, Los Angeles

Bryan Quinn, businessman, Santa Clara

Reva Renee Renz, small business owner, Orange

Daniel W. Richards, businessman, San Bernardino

Kevin Richter, information technology manager, San Joaquin

Jamie Rosemary Safford, business owner, Placer

David Ronald Sams, businessman-producer-writer, Los Angeles

Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor-businessman, Los Angeles

Bill Simon, businessman, Los Angeles

Randall D. Sprague, discrimination complaint investigator, Sacramento

William James Tsangares, businessman, Los Angeles

Peter V. Ueberroth, businessman, Orange

James M. Vandeventer, Jr., salesman-businessman, Los Angeles

Paul Vann, financial planner, Orange

Van Vo, businessman, radio producer, Orange

Chuck Walker, business intelligence analyst, Santa Cruz

John W. Zellhoefer, energy consultant, San Bernardino

INDEPENDENT

Brooke Adams, business executive, Orange

Angelyne, entertainer, Los Angeles

Mohammad Arif, businessman, Los Angeles

Badi Badiozamani, entrepreneur, San Diego

Joel Britton, retired meatpacker, Los Angeles

John Christopher Burton, civil rights lawyer, Los Angeles

Michael Cheli, businessman, Sonoma

Gary Coleman, actor, Alameda

Mary "Mary Carey" Cook, adult film actress, Los Angeles

Scott W. Davis, business owner, Santa Clara

Ronald J. Friedman, physician, Los Angeles

Leo Gallagher, actor, Los Angeles

Jack Grisham, musician-laborer, Orange

Sara Ann Hanlon, businesswoman, Los Angeles

Stephen C. Henderson, teacher, Monterey

Arianna Huffington, author-columnist, Los Angeles

Trek Thunder Kelly, business executive-artist, Los Angeles

Jerome Kunzman, chief executive officer, Contra Costa

Todd Richard Lewis, businessman, Los Angeles

Mike P. McCarthy, used car dealer, San Luis Obispo

Robert McClain, civil engineer, Alameda

Darryl L. Mobley, businessman-entrepreneur, Contra Costa

J. Leonard Padilla, law school president, Sacramento

Jeff Rainforth, marketing coordinator, Sacramento

Kurt E. Rightmyer, middleweight sumo wrestler, Los Angeles

Sharon Rushford, businesswoman, Santa Clara

George B. Schwartzman, businessman, San Diego

Richard J. Simmons, attorney-businessman, Los Angeles

B.E. Smith, lecturer, Trinity

Patricia Tilley, attorney, Sacramento

Brian Tracy, businessman-consultant, San Diego

Nathan Whitecloud Walton, student, San Diego

GREEN

Peter Miguel Camejo, financial investment adviser, Sacramento

Ivan Alexander Hall III, custom denture manufacturer, Shasta

Maurice Walker, real estate appraiser, Alameda

Daniel T. Watts, college student, Santa Clara

LIBERTARIAN

Ken Hamidi, state tax officer, Sacramento

John J. Hickey, health care district director, San Mateo

Ned Fenton Roscoe, cigarette retailer, Napa

AMERICAN INDEPENDENT

Diane Beall Templin, attorney-Realtor-businesswoman, San Diego

NATURAL LAW

Iris Adam, business analyst, Orange

Darin Price, university chemistry instructor, Humboldt

PEACE AND FREEDOM

C.T. Weber, labor official-analyst, Sacramento

Source: California Secretary of State

AP-ES-08-14-03 0522EDT

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Fascinating list of occupations represented on the list.

I was surprised to find so many from my former home town, Alameda.

Who knew? Embarrassed

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Whew. Some people need to get a life. Oh look. Gallaghers first name is Leo, how interesting. You learn something new every day. Confused

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How can one be a "middleweight" sumo wrestler?

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Bill Maher: Recalls Are for Cars, Not California Governors
Recalls Are for Cars, Not California Governors
When did the Target parking lot replace the voting booth?
By Bill Maher
Los Angeles Times (Thursday 24 July 2003)

New rule: No do-overs. Once you elect an official, unless he runs off with public funds or gets caught with kiddie porn, you're stuck with him.

He's the governor, not some dude you married in Las Vegas.

What's going on here in California, if you're lucky enough to not have been following this, is that the economy turned, so we're getting rid of the
governor. But what if we drive him out of office and the economy still doesn't get better? I guess we'll have to burn him. And if that doesn't work, we'll kill his dog.

Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you.

And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

Here's why the economy turned: The dot-com bubble burst. (Obviously on the orders of Gray Davis.) The airline industry collapsed. (Just as
Gray Davis planned.) We fought two wars. (Playing right into Gray Davis' hands.) And Dick Cheney's friends at Enron "gamed" the energy market and ripped off the state for billions.

So you can see the problem: Gray Davis.

And the obvious solution: A Viennese weightlifter. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Finally, a candidate who can explain the Bush administration's positions on civil liberties in the original German.

But there are still a lot of Democrats with sour grapes over the last presidential election, and they're not collecting petitions to replace George
Bush with Bernie Mac.

Now, I'm not saying that I like Davis. Being enthusiastic about Davis would be like saying your favorite food is straw. But he fought for his
country in Vietnam and won a fair election, and he's entitled to his term.

Maybe he's a lousy governor, but he was the one elected by voters who bothered to show up at the polls. Their efforts shouldn't be undone by
disgruntled shoppers signing a petition on their way out of Target.

Anyone who thinks this recall is some great affirmation of democracy should review early American history. This is precisely the kind of direct involvement by the howling masses that the framers wanted to avoid.

But, hey, let's have the recall. And then the people who voted for Davis can have a recall and put him back in. And then we can throw him out again. It works well in Italy.

And it'll really help the state economy, too, when investors realize our political system is on par with Belize.

Oh, and a recall election will cost the state up to $35 million. Money we would otherwise just waste on schools and roads. And we'll still have to
have a regular election in March.

But this really isn't about elections at all. This is about a congressman named Darrell Issa, a Republican car alarm magnate who wants to be
governor and has spent $1.5 million of his own money to fund the recall effort.

Think about that as the silver lining the next time a car alarm wakes you up in the middle of the night.

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