California Peace and Freedom Party

For Immediate Release

Contacts: Jim Smith, 310-399-8685 * pfp@la-peaceandfreedom.org

Also: 909-787-0318 * 510-845-7251

Slate of P&F Candidates to run for all 2006 partisan statewide offices

The State Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party has endorsed a full slate of 2006 candidates for statewide offices.

Our candidates will represent the needs of California's working people, in contrast to the Democrats and Republicans, the corporate parties of the rich.

- Marsha Feinland, a Berkeley peace and teacher's union activist, is running for U.S. Senate. She campaigned for the position in 2004 and finished third.

- An activist with women prisoners and an alcohol/drug counselor, Janice Jordan, has been endorsed for Governor. She was the P&F's national vice-presidential candidate in 2004, and has been active in San Diego politics and in prison reform.

- Stewart Alexander of Murrieta is running for Lieutenant Governor. He is active against the three-strikes law and against capital punishment.

- Berkeley labor attorney Jack Harrison is the candidate for Attorney General. He is an elected member on the rent board in Berkeley where he has worked for handicapped accessibility and affordable housing.

- Riverside anthropologist Margie Akin is the Secretary of State candidate. A former teachers union president, she is running to alert voters of the dangers of voting machine fraud and to build support for election reform including proportional representation.

- Oakland dock worker and electrician Gerald Sanders is running for State Treasurer. He is an active union member and has been involved in the on-going struggle for justice for political prisoners. Sanders nearly won a previous election to the Oakland school board where he garnered 47 percent of the vote.



- San José teacher Elizabeth Cervantes Barron is running for State Controller. She has the distinction of being the Party's all-time biggest vote getter in a previous election for Controller.



- Tom Condit of Berkeley is running for the office of Insurance Commissioner. He is running on a platform of eliminating the insurance companies from the areas of health care, basic auto liability insurance and workers' compensation, rather than just regulating them.



All of the Peace and Freedom Party candidates support an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, ending the death penalty, doubling the minimum wage and other platform planks that can be found at: .

The Peace and Freedom Party of California, founded in 1967, is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality.