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June 6th P&F Results in Sonoma County

Local Candidates

State Senate

There are no Peace and Freedom Party candidates for State Senate in Sonoma County.

U.S. House of Representatives

Tim Stock of West Sacramento is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1st Congressional District, which includes the eastern portion of Sonoma County (including Cloverdale, Healdsburg, Windsor and part of Sonoma), as well as all of Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake and Napa counties, and the southern half of Yolo County. He received 21 votes in Sonoma County, of 168 in the entire district.

State Assembly

There are no Peace and Freedom Party candidates for State Assembly in Sonoma County.

Local Non-partisan Offices

The webmaster is not aware of any endorsements by the Sonoma County Peace and Freedom Party organization of any candidates for local non-partisan offices which were voted on in the June 6th primary election.

Peace and Freedom Party Central Committees

Two members of the Peace and Freedom Party Central Committees were elected from Sonoma County in 2004. Two people, Toni Novak and Irv Sutley, were on the ballot for Central Committees in Sonoma County in the June 2006 primary election, and the election was open for write-ins, but the webmaster is not aware of any write-in candidates from the county who ran for Central Committees. Final results of the Central Committees election were not available on the website of the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters, but presumably the two candidates on the ballot were elected.

Local Measures

The webmaster is not aware of any positions taken by the Sonoma County Peace and Freedom Party organization on any county, municipal or regional measures that were on the ballot June 6th in Sonoma County.

Regional Candidate

Dave Campbell is running for Board of Equalization in the 1st Board of Equalization District, which includes all of Sonoma County. He received 159 votes in Sonoma County, of 1,508 in the entire district.

Statewide Candidates

The slate of Peace and Freedom Party candidates for statewide partisan public offices are:

  • Governor: Janice Jordan (3,849 statewide, 164 in Sonoma County)
  • Lieutenant Governor: Stewart Alexander (3,549 statewide, 154 in Sonoma County)
  • Secretary of State: Margie Akin (3,929 statewide, 163 in Sonoma County)
  • Treasurer: Gerald Sanders (3,681 statewide, 153 in Sonoma County)
  • Controller: Liz Barrón (4,047 statewide, 172 in Sonoma County)
  • Attorney General: Jack Harrison (3,736 statewide, 158 in Sonoma County)
  • Insurance Commissioner: Tom Condit (3,850 statewide, 161 in Sonoma County)
  • U.S. Senator: Marsha Feinland (4,109 statewide, 158 in Sonoma County)

The Peace and Freedom Party also recommended a vote for Sarah Knopp for Superintendent of Public Instruction. She is a teacher and a socialist, though not a P&F member, who came in second of five candidates with 695,372 votes (17.3%) statewide for this nominally non-partisan position. In Sonoma County, she got 20,459 votes (20.6%).

Statewide Measures

There were two propositions on the statewide ballot June 6th, assigned proposition numbers 81 and 82. At its April 1st-2nd State Central Committee meeting, the Peace and Freedom Party took a position on one of measures.

  • Proposition 81 (the voter pamphlet's summary, analysis, arguments for and rebuttal, arguments against and rebuttal, and the full text are available as PDFs): "California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2006." This measure would have issued $600 million of bonds to renovate existing library buildings and build new libraries. Because we are generally opposed to bond measures, but in favor of building more libraries, the Peace and Freedom Party neither supported nor opposed Proposition 81. The bonds were defeated by a statewide vote of 2,326,305 (47.3%) to 2,590,954 (52.7%). In Sonoma County, the vote was 61,466 (51.4%) to 58,252 (48.6%).
  • Proposition 82 (the voter pamphlet's summary, analysis, arguments for and rebuttal, arguments against and rebuttal, and the full text are available as PDFs): "Preschool Education. Tax on Incomes Over $400,000 for Individuals; $800,000 for Couples. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute." This measure would have raised the income tax on the rich by 1.7% and used the money raised to fund universal preschool programs for four-year olds. The Peace and Freedom Party urged that you vote YES on 82. The measure was defeated by a statewide vote of 1,958,200 (39.2%) to 3,036,217 (60.8%). In Sonoma County, the vote was 53,401 (44.0%) to 67,731 (56.0%).

 

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