Endorsements 2006

TREASURER | Bill Lockyer

As attorney general since 2002, Bill Lockyer fought attempts by the Bush administration to roll back environmental protection regulations. He then investigated California’s oil refineries, whom he suspected of price-gouging, and fought tobacco companies over a $153.4 million lawsuit settlement.

As treasurer he says he will focus on the multibillion-dollar infrastructure bonds that are expected to pass on the November ballot, putting mechanisms in place to ensure accountability.

His opponent is Claude Parrish, a termed-out Board of Equalization member who does not seem to be taking his candidacy very seriously.