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Dianne Feinstein
4,445,123 votes
59.5%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: United States Senator
Richard "Dick" Mountjoy
2,630,300 votes
35.2%
- Party: Republican
- Occupation: Immigration Control Consultant
Todd "Todd Chretien" Chretien
124,507 votes
1.7%
- Party: Green
- Occupation: Writer
- B.A. San Francisco State University, 2003
- Author of Proposition I, College Not Combat referendum, won 59% on November 05 San Francisco ballot
- Nader/LaDuke 2000 and Nader/Camejo 2004 California campaign worker
- Organizer for May 1st Immigrants Rights "Great American Boycott 2006" protests
- Co-Founder of Save Stan Tookie Williams Coalition and longtime member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
- Married to Jessie Muldoon, Oakland public school teacher, and father of three-year-old daughter, Isabela
Priorities:
- Bring the Troops Home Now from Iraq: Over 100,000 Iraqis and over 2300 Americans have died in this senseless war. End it now.
- Amnesty for Immigrant Workers: Immigrants built this country in years past and they deserve full equality today.
- Tax the Rich: To rebuild our public schools, institute single-payer health care and make UC, CSU and CC eduation free for all California students.
Michael S. Metti
116,720 votes
1.5%
- Party: Libertarian
- Occupation: Parent/Educator/Businessman
- Test & Balance Engineer 1980 - 1998
- Sheet Metal Journeyman 1976
- International Businessman
Priorities:
- Tax Consolidation, Tax Reduction
- Separating Education & State
- Repeal the Patriot Act
Marsha Feinland
101,021 votes
1.3%
- Party: Peace and Freedom
- Occupation: Retired Teacher
- Retired after 25 years of teaching in California public schools
- Served as elected commissioner on Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board, 1994-1998
- Received teachers' union WHO award for organizing work in the Alameda Education Association, 2002
- Received 243,000 votes as Peace & Freedom Party candidate for U.S. Senate, 2004
Priorities:
- Reducing militarism: Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, Dismantling the U.S. nuclear weapons program
- Universal health care through a national "single payer" system without insurance company profits
- Double the federal minimum wage and index it to the cost of living
Don J. Grundmann
65,614 votes
0.8%
- Party: American Independent
- Occupation: Doctor of Chiropractic
Connor Vlakancic
(Write-in)
Jeffrey Mackler
(Write-in)
Kent P. Mesplay, Ph.D.
(Write-in)
- Party: Green
- Occupation: Air Quality Inspector
- Presidential Candidate, Green Party, 2004 Primaries
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1993
- Nader Delegate, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1996
- Appointed Treasurer, San Diego Green Party County Council, 1996
- Founding Member, San Diego Citizens Action, 1996
- Page, 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles
Priorities:
- Promote State Renewable Energy Independence for its security implications
- Help reform politics: We need publicly funded campaigns and open debates
- Improve relations with Mexico by addressing the root causes of immigration
Lea Sherman
(Write-in)
- Party: Independent
- Occupation: Garment warehouse worker
- Socialist Workers Party
Priorities:
- Unionize all workers--U.S. and foreign-born while fighting to legalize all immigrants now. Solidarity with the Goodyear workers on strike.
- For the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of U. S. troops and all "coalition" troops from Afghanistan, Iraq and Korea.
- Defend all women's right to choose abortion. No on Proposition 85.
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