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September 10, 2012 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

Former Legislator Races in November

Some nonpartisan races we’ll be watching this November;

Counties
Bruce McPherson – Former Secretary of State running in Santa Cruz County
Roy Ashburn – Former State Senator running in Kern County
Kevin Jeffries – Assemblyman running in Riverside County
Joe Simitian – State Senator running in Santa Clara County

Cities
Bob Filner – Congressman running for Mayor of San Diego

Special Districts
Tony Mendoza – Assemblyman running for Central Basin Municipal Water District Board
Phil Hawkins – Former Assemblyman running for Central Basin Municipal Water District Board

And of course the returning alumni…
Former Legislators Sally J. Lieber, Joe Coto, Hannah-Beth Jackson, George Plescia, Rico Oller, Richard Alarcon, Joe Baca Jr., Tony Cardenas and Abel Maldonado are all running for office again as well.

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