Information About Candidate Statements

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This voter guide includes information about U.S. Senate and statewide constitutional office candidates.

United States Senate candidates can buy space for their candidate statement in this voter guide. Some candidates, however, choose not to buy space for a statement.

U.S. Senate

Mario Nabliba	Republican
Adrienne Nicole Edwards	Democratic
Kevin De León	Democratic
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente	Republican
Donnie O. Turner	Democratic
Paul A. Taylor	Republican
Patrick Little	Republican
Jerry Joseph Laws	Republican
Tim Gildersleeve	No Party Preference
Michael Fahmy Girgis	No Party Preference
Don J. Grundmann	No Party Preference
Rash Bihari Ghosh	No Party Preference
John "Jack" Crew	Republican
Erin Cruz	Republican
Herbert G. Peters	Democratic
Gerald Plummer	Democratic

Douglas Howard Pierce	Democratic
Tom Palzer	Republican
John Thompson Parker	Peace and Freedom
James P. Bradley	Republican
Arun K. Bhumitra	Republican
Derrick Michael Reid	Libertarian
Ling Ling Shi	No Party Preference
David Hildebrand	Democratic
Jason M. Hanania	No Party Preference
Alison Hartson	Democratic
Pat Harris	Democratic
Dianne Feinstein	Democratic
Colleen Shea Fernald	No Party Preference
Lee Olson	No Party Preference
Kevin Mottus	Republican
David Moore	No Party Preference

California law includes voluntary spending limits for candidates running for state office (not federal office). Statewide constitutional office candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Board of Equalization who choose to keep their campaign expenses under specified dollar amounts may buy space for a candidate statement (up to 250 words) in this voter guide.

The voluntary spending limit for candidates for Governor in the June 5, 2018, Statewide Direct Primary Election is $8,753,000.

The voluntary spending limit for candidates for Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner, and Superintendent of Public Instruction in the June 5, 2018, Statewide Direct Primary Election is $5,835,000.

The voluntary spending limit for candidates for the Board of Equalization in the June 5, 2018, Statewide Direct Primary Election is $1,459,000.

In the candidate lists on this page, an asterisk (*) designates a statewide constitutional office candidate who accepted California’s voluntary campaign spending limits and therefore has the option to buy space for a candidate statement in this voter guide. (Some eligible candidates choose not to buy space for a candidate statement.)

Statewide constitutional office candidate statements are here.

The following list of candidates for statewide constitutional office is current through the end of the public display period required for this voter guide. For the final certified list of candidates, which was due after this guide was published, go to www.sos.ca.gov/elections/candidate-statements.

Governor

Gavin Newsom	Democratic
Robert C. Newman, II*	Republican
Delaine Eastin*	Democratic
Klement Tinaj*	Democratic
Jeffrey Edward Taylor*	No Party Preference
Peter Y. Liu*	Republican
Gloria Estela La Riva*	Peace and Freedom
Yvonne Girard*	Republican
Robert Davidson Griffis*	Democratic
Shubham Goel*	No Party Preference
Thomas Jefferson Cares*	Democratic
Christopher N. Carlson*	Green
John Chiang	Democratic
John H. Cox*	Republican

Josh Jones*	Green
J. Bribiesca*	Democratic
Zoltan Istvan*	Libertarian
Amanda Renteria*	Democratic
Travis Allen*	Republican
Akinyemi Agbede*	Democratic
Desmond Silveira*	No Party Preference
Michael Shellenberger*	Democratic
Nickolas Wildstar*	Libertarian
Johnny Wattenburg*	No Party Preference
Antonio Villaraigosa	Democratic
Albert Caesar Mezetti*	No Party Preference
Hakan "Hawk" Mikado	No Party Preference

Lieutenant Governor

Danny Thomas	No Party Preference
Eleni Kounalakis*	Democratic
Cameron Gharabiklou*	Democratic
Jeff Bleich*	Democratic
Ed Hernandez*	Democratic
David R. Hernandez*	Republican

Cole Harris	Republican
David Fennell*	Republican
Tim Ferreira*	Libertarian
Lydia Ortega*	Republican
Gayle McLaughlin*	No Party Preference

Secretary of State

Gail K. Lightfoot*	Libertarian
Alex Padilla*	Democratic
Erik Rydberg*	Green
Raul Rodriguez Jr.*	Republican

C.T. Weber*	Peace and Freedom
Michael Feinstein*	Green
Mark P. Meuser*	Republican
Ruben Major*	Democratic

Controller

Betty T. Yee*	Democratic
Konstantinos Roditis*	Republican

Mary Lou Finley*

Peace and Freedom

State Treasurer

Jack M. Guerrero*	Republican
Greg Conlon*	Republican
Kevin Akin*	Peace and Freedom

Vivek Viswanathan*	Democratic
Fiona Ma*	Democratic

Attorney General

Eric Early*	Republican
Dave Jones*	Democratic

Xavier Becerra*	Democratic
Steven C. Bailey*	Republican

Insurance Commissioner

Ricardo Lara*	Democratic
Steve Poizner*	No Party Preference

Nathalie Hrizi*	Peace and Freedom
Asif Mahmood*	Democratic

Board of Equalization District 1

David Evans*	Republican
Ted Gaines*	Republican

Connie Conway*	Republican
Tom Hallinan*	Democratic

Board of Equalization District 2

Cathleen Galgiani*	Democratic
Barry Chang*	Democratic

Malia Cohen*	Democratic
Mark Burns*	Republican

Board of Equalization District 3

Cheryl C. Turner*	Democratic
Doug Kriegel*	Democratic
Nancy Pearlman*	Democratic
Ben Pak*	Democratic

Scott Svonkin*	Democratic
Micheál "Me-Haul" O’Leary*	No Party Preference
Tony Vazquez*	Democratic
G. Rick Marshall*	Republican

Board of Equalization District 4

David Dodson*	Democratic
John F. Kelly*	Republican
Ken Lopez-Maddox*	Democratic
Joel Anderson*	Republican

James Stieringer*	Republican
Mike Schaefer*	Democratic
Nader F. Shahatit*	Republican

Superintendent of Public Instruction

Marshall Tuck*	Nonpartisan
Tony K. Thurmond*	Nonpartisan

Lily (Espinoza) Ploski*	Nonpartisan
Steven Ireland*	Nonpartisan

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