To be honest I did not know anything about the race and I did not really care. I was so into my own things that i did not stop to look. Now that i have seen and read about everyone running and where they stand i agree more with Carlos Alvarez to some extent. I see him as someone that my generation or younger would vote for, i like his ideas in theory but i don’t think they would ever be functional. I think he has great ideals but don’t think that the min wage will go up to $15 a hour if we are still struggling to make the current min wage how will people pay others such as small business owners be able to pay $15 a hour to employees if can hardly pay 8-9.50 now. I think that if he could get the colleges to be free it would create an issue for schools that function on tuition of students but it would help many that are struggling to pay and also allow people to get an education, health care and abortions too it would help a lot of people that are struggling to pay their insurances for health care now which is a lot of people, these people cant pay insurance due to economy so lose care and when need it cant pay bills for hospital since its at all time high without insurance. I think that it should be free since they are basic needs, i think abortion though would be nice for people that need it but having it be free will open a new door to all kinds of trouble. Same Sex marriage i don’t mind it even though i don’t partake, i don’t see why we shouldn’t allow it, especially in such a free state like California. I agree with the amnesty and rights for illegal immigrants but again that opens a new door that may be a never ending pour in of people trying to become legal. I think illegal’s should be allowed to become legal but through a process, that way we don’t have an overflow of illegal’s becoming legal and we can weed out the bad ones. I know that there is a process already in place but it does not work, it takes forever to approve people that are here and hard working and pay tax, and also takes forever to get rid of the ones that do more harm than good. I think that changes should be made to the system and those that applied long ago and are waiting that have a clean record and good people should get to become a citizen and the bad ones should be deported. I know that many will say hard to see which are bad and which are not but to be honest its not that hard, the bad ones are the ones on street selling, ones stopped and investigated over and over, ones that are currently being looked for, or the ones in our jails. To allow vacant houses for homeless and voting rights to change to age 16 i don’t agree with. I don’t know if changing the voting age will ensure that a good person is in office or just was elected because he or she looked good. I am not positive that 16 year olds will know for who to vote for and why if I don’t even know some times. I feel bad for homeless but i think those houses should be given to people that lost their home due to economy couldn’t pay and lower price of mortgage to allow them to own a home again and that way be sure will pay house. I think that if homes will be "Given" to someone i think should be to those that have been hit by economy and are losing house that worked hard to get or those that lost them. I don’t disagree with helping homeless just not by giving them houses, maybe a shelter or free food and clothes at certain places. After reading up on the candidates i see why so hard to choose since i think all have some good positions/ideals and some questionable ones.
Notes:
Election-November 2, 2010, primary elections were held June 8, 2010
Elected will serve a four year term from 2011-2015, can’t serve more than 2 four year terms
www.californiality.com/2010/01/california-governer-2010-candidates.html
Independent party- running are Chelene Nightingale, and Markham Robinson
Chelene Nightingale – in lead 24,000 votes
-conservative
-former republican
-pro-military
-pro-farmers
-immigration reformer
-Promotes tax cuts
-limited government
-right to bear arms
-supports prop 8
- supports AZ governor
-against amnesty
-leaves marijuana legalization to voters
- pro prop 23
Will suspend AB 32
Democratic party- Jerry brown, Richard Aguirre, Lowell Darling, Vibert Greene, Charles Pineda, and Joe Symmon
Jerry Brown- lead 2,021,189 votes
Jerrybrown.com
More jobs in private sector
Fix education , higher education, focus on community colleges, change state testing,
Change school funding teacher trainging, power to local school districts, balanace school curriculum, increase English proficiency, improve high school graduation rate,
Budget-
Environment
Clean energy- jobs created
Pension reform- stop pension spiking and abuse, renegotiate retirement benefit amounts for new employees, increase employee contributions for all employees
Fighting to protect civil rights
Green party- Laura Wells
S. Deacon Alexander
Laura wells- lead 17,548 votes
-supports tax structure changes
-affordable health care for all
- state controlled bank partnering with private banks for infrastructure investment
- promotes statewide green energy program and water resources management restructuring
Libertarian party- Dale Ogden 17,477 votes
-Rollback of state spending
-Part-time California State Legislature
-promotes radical state regulations reform
- reduce state government tax cuts
-pro-liberty
-opposes government excessive taxation
Peace and Freedom party- Carlos Alvarez, Stewart Alexander, Mohammad Arif
Carlos Alvarez – lead 1,906 votes
-LGBT rights activist
-anti-war protest organizer
-proposes $15/hour min wage
-free college education
-free health care
-free abortions
- same sex marriage
-voting rights at age 16
-vacant houses for homeless
-amnesty and rights for illegal immigrants
Republican party- Meg Witman, Bill Chambers, Douglas Hughes, Ken Miller, Steven Mozena, Lawrence Naritelli, Robert Newman, Steve Poizner, and David Tully-Smith
Meg Whitman- lead 1,529,534 votes
Megwhitman.com
- Former ebay chief executive
- Spent “71 million” of own money in campaign
- Face jerry brown in November
- Was co-chair to John McCain when he ran and advised him
- Unknown political stances
- Lack if political experience
- Fiscally conservative
- Socially moderate
- Opposed increasing taxes in order to decrease California’s deficit
- Roll back state regulation to increase economic growth
- Increase teacher salaries
- Cut corporate income taxes
- Supported proposition 8 to band same sex marriage in cali
- Supports gays adopting and civil unions
- Supports right to abort
- Says will create new jobs
- Cut government spending
- Fix education
- Opposes AZ immigration law
- Opposes Marijuana Legalization
No Party affiliation- Alex Brittain and Ryce D’Orazio
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