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Press-Enterprise voting recommendations

The Press-Enterprise

This has been -- truly! -- one of the more interesting elections. Not many would have imagined a year ago that we, as a state or as a nation, would be at this particular political place going into Tuesday's election.

The campaign has been -- again, truly! -- one worth paying attention to. Maybe it did not always seemed that way at the time, but looking back over the entire sweep of the campaign, it's not been your ordinary political year.

And anything worthy of voter attention is certainly worthy of voter participation.

In addition to the recommendations of candidates and measures summarized below we have a further urging appropriate to the occasion: Vote.

It's still the best way that anyone has found to settle these matters. The opinion polls, the exit polls, the push polls are interesting but transitory; it's what happens at the polls on Tuesday, along with those anticipatory absentee ballots, that counts.

And there are enough open races and enough close races remaining to ensure each vote will, indeed, count.

Everyone, then, to our stations: Specific recommendations are listed below.

STATE:

Governor: Gray Davis, Democrat

Lieutenant Governor: Cruz Bustamante, Democrat

Secretary of State: Bill Jones, Republican

Controller: Kathleen Connell, Democrat

Treasurer: No recommendation

Attorney General: Bill Lockyer, Democrat

Insurance Commissioner: Chuck Quackenbush, Republican

Board of Equalization, 2nd District: Dean Andal, Republican

Board of Equalization, 3rd District: Claude Parrish, Republican

CONGRESS

U.S. Senate: Barbara Boxer, Democrat

House of Representatives, 40th: Jerry Lewis, Republican

House of Representatives, 42nd: George E. Brown Jr., Democrat

House of Representatives, 43rd: Ken Calvert, Republican

House of Representatives, 44th: Mary Bono, Republican

STATE LEGISLATURE

State Senate, 32nd: Eunice Ulloa, Republican

State Senate, 36th: George Swift, Democrat

Assembly, 62nd: John Longville, Democrat

Assembly, 65th: Brett Granlund, Republican

Assembly, 66th: Bruce Thompson, Republican

Assembly, 80th: Joe Acuna Jr., Democrat

JUDICIAL

Chief Justice: Ronald George, Yes

Associate Justice: Ming William Chin, Yes

Associate Justice: Janice Brown, Yes

Associate Justice: Stanley Mosk, Yes

State Court of Appeal: All Justices, Yes

Riverside County Superior Court Judge: Becky Dugan

SCHOOL

State Superintendent of Public Instruction: Delaine Eastin

Riverside County Superintendent: David Long

San Bernardino County Superintendent: Herbert Fischer

RIVERSIDE COUNTY

Treasurer Tax Collector: Paul McDonnell

Western Municipal Water District, Division 3: John `Terry' Mylne

LOCAL ELECTIONS

Moreno Valley

Measure U, Parcel Fee: Yes

Measure V, Creation of Zone L: Yes

Measure W, Fireworks: No

School Board: Jackie Ashe, Gary Baugh, Darlene Dolan

City Council: Bonnie Flickinger, Richard Stewart

Murrieta

Measure Y, Public Safety Ordinance: No

Measure Z, Development Services Ordinance, No

Hemet

Measure S, Hemet School Bond: Yes

School Board: Gisela Gosch, Marilyn Forst

City Council: Robin Lowe, Roger Meadows

San Jacinto

School Board: Donald Wickham, John Schouten

Beaumont

Measure T, Beaumont School Bond: Yes

Jurupa

School Board: Lynne Craig, Mary Burns, Sam Knight Sr.

Corona

City Council: Darrell Talbert, Karen Stein, Jan Rudman

STATE MEASURES

Prop. 1A. Public Schools, UC, Cal State Bond Act YES

Prop. 1. Property Taxes. Contaminated Property YES

Prop. 2. Transportation. Funding YES

Prop. 3. Partisan Presidential Primary YES

Prop. 4. Trapping Practices. Bans Use of Specific Traps NO

Prop. 5. Tribal-State Gaming Compacts. Tribal Casinos YES

Prop. 6. Slaughter of Horses. Horsemeat NO

Prop. 7. Air Quality Improvement. Tax Credits NO

Prop. 8. Public Schools. Class Size Reduction NO

Prop. 9. Electric Utilities. Assessments NO

Prop. 10. Early Childhood Development Programs NO

Prop. 11. Local Sales and Use Taxes. Revenue Sharing YES

Published 11/1/1998



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