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Los Angeles, Ventura County, CA November 6, 2012 Election
United States Representative; District 30 Voter Information

Results as of Dec 3 10:07pm, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (378/378)
Candidates (Vote for 1)
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Brad Sherman Click here for more information about this candidate 149,456 votes 60.3%

  • Party: Democratic
  • Occupation: United States Congressman/CPA
  • Served on the Board of Directors for California Common Cause from 1984 to 1989, working to reform state campaign finance laws
  • Served on the California State Board of Equalization from 1991 to 1996 and fought to make tax laws fair for middle class families
  • Senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Financial Services Committee
  • Serves as the ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Nonproliferation
  • Graduated from UCLA and Harvard Law School and worked in the private sector for 15 years as a CPA and tax law specialist
  • Married to Lisa Kaplan Sherman with three daughters, Molly, Naomi and Lucy
  • brad@bradsherman.com
Priorities:
  • Creating jobs and opposing unfair trade deals that ship Valley jobs overseas
  • Reforming Wall Street by cracking down on those who created the financial crisis and breaking up banks that are "too big to fail"
  • Protecting Social Security and Medicare
Howard L. Berman Click here for more information about this candidate 98,395 votes 39.7%
  • Party: Democratic
  • Occupation: Member of Congress
  • Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs 2008-2011
  • California State Assembly 1972-82
  • UCLA, BA International Affairs, 1962
  • UCLA School of Law, LLB, 1965
  • info@howardberman.com
Priorities:
  • Create and protect high skill high wage jobs
  • Improve our schools and keep college tuition affordable
  • Keep America safe, at home and abroad

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