NAME: Jerry Brown
AGE: 76. Born in San Francisco, April 7, 1938
PARTY: Democratic
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in classics, University of California, Berkeley, 1961; law degree, Yale University, 1964
EXPERIENCE: California governor, 2011-present, 1975-1983; California attorney general, 2007-2011; mayor of Oakland, 1998-2006; state Democratic Party chairman, 1989-1991; California secretary of state, 1971-1974; Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees, 1969-1971. Ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, 1980 and 1992. Worked as a law clerk to California Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner and at Los Angeles law firms in the 1960s and 1980s.
FAMILY: Wife, Anne Gust
RELIGION: Catholic
QUOTE: “I’ve found that part of my mission here is to solve problems that I created. … First it was a pleasure to create the problem, but it’s a greater pleasure to solve it. I won’t tell you what those problems were; some of you have your own ideas. And I don’t think there were that many, to tell you the truth.”
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NAME: Tim Donnelly
AGE: 47. Born in Atlanta, May 9, 1966
PARTY: Republican
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in English, University of California, Irvine, 1989
EXPERIENCE: Assemblyman, 33rd district, 2010-present; owner of Donnelly Plastics, a plastics manufacturing company that went out of business; founder of a Minuteman border patrol chapter, 2005.
FAMILY: Wife, Rowena; five sons, ages 14-32
RELIGION: Christian
QUOTE: “I’m not moderate. I very strongly believe in what I believe in. I also respect other people’s right to disagree with me. That’s freedom; that’s what I’m fighting for. But I’ve found that some of the things I’m fighting for, the fights I’ve picked, are unifying. They touch people’s hearts.”
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NAME: Neel Kashkari
AGE: 40. Born in Akron, Ohio, July 30, 1973
PARTY: Republican
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995; master’s in engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997; MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
EXPERIENCE: Aerospace engineer at Redondo Beach-based TRW Inc., 1998-2000; vice president at Goldman Sachs & Co. in San Francisco, 2002-2006; aide to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, nominated in 2007 by President George W. Bush as assistant secretary of the Treasury for international affairs; headed Treasury’s new Office of Financial Stability from 2008 to 2009 overseeing the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program; head of global investments at Newport Beach-based bond investment company PIMCO, 2009-2013.
FAMILY: Divorced
RELIGION: Hindu
QUOTE: “What I’m fighting for are these issues of jobs and education, giving your kids the same shot in life that I’ve had. Give me a chance. Give me a chance to show you that there is a base of Republicans here that really wants to fight for you. … I spent a year planning and analyzing this, and one of the key tests for me was, ’How will I be received by a very diverse group of people, potential voters across the state?’”
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