Ladies and gentlemen, these are your candidates. The three candidates
While much of the election night hubbub Tuesday will be joined by Republican Loren Hanks, who took
focused on local races and the hotly contested 60 percent of the vote to beat out Fortunan Randy
Republican primaries for governor and U.S. Senate, Franck and take the Republican nomination.
fields were also solidified for several races to
represent the North Coast at the federal and state
Hanks, a 25-year veteran of the United States Air
levels.
Force from Vacaville, offered Republican voters a
stark contrast from Franck, a self-described “indoor
With roughly five months until Election Day in farmer” who, prior to announcing his candidacy,
November, here's a brief look at the races for was perhaps best known for a video on youtube.
California's 1st Assembly District, the state's 2nd com in which he goes by the name Angel Garcia,
Senate District and the 1st Congressional District. proclaims himself “mayor of the Emerald Triangle”
and offers to give free marijuana to welfare mothers
U.S. Congress District 1 who have a 215 recommendation.
North Coast voters will have four candidates to Hanks, who has said he is running for Congress
choose from in November, when deciding who they because he believes irresponsible leadership is the
would like to see represent them in Congress. “gravest threat to America,” will now join Wolman
and Rodrigues in challenging Thompson, an
Incumbent Mike Thompson, who has held the post entrenched Democrat, in November.
since 1999, ran unopposed in the Democratic
primary and will be facing Mendocino Green Party State Senate District 2
candidate Carol Wolman and San Jose Libertarian
Party candidate Mike Rodrigues -- both of whom And then there were two.
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