SPECIAL REPORT / ELECTION PREVIEW : DECISION ’94 / A Voter’s Guide to State and Local Elections : Statewide Offices : A look at the major candidates in contested races. : ATTY. GENERAL
California’s top prosecutor, oversees state Department of Justice and helps set the agenda for many law enforcement issues. Salary: $102,000 a year.
MAJOR CANDIDATES
Both major parties have picked their candidates for the November general election. Republican incumbent Dan Lungren is running unopposed; two-term Assemblyman Tom Umberg (D-Garden Grove) became the Democratic nominee after Arlo Smith, the San Francisco district attorney who lost narrowly to Lungren in 1990, decided to drop out of the primary.
HISTORY
From Edmund G. (Pat) Brown Sr. to George Deukmejian, the office has been something of a steppingstone to the governor’s office, and that’s just what most Republicans see for Lungren. Only one incumbent has lost in this century--Republican Atty. Gen. Fred Howser lost in the primary in 1950--and Umberg has an uphill fight.
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