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born 1955 United States

Debra Lynn Bowen (born October 27, 1955) is an American attorney and politician who served as the Secretary of State of California from 2007 to 2015. Previously, she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1992 to 2006.

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As a member of Congress, I will make creating jobs priority number one.

While I believe government should be as transparent as possible, I also believe people deserve to live free of fear or harassment.

A pioneer in open government reform, election integrity, and personal privacy rights.

Democracy doesn’t work if people can’t trust the system that they use to cast ballots.

I have always believed that transparency is critical to a functioning democracy.

I support full marriage equality and have done so very publicly and very vocally for more than a decade.

I believe good environmental policy and good economic policy go hand-in-hand.

We cannot prepare for the future unless we invest in our education system and make it a national priority.

Social Security and Medicare are not just the cornerstones of the social safety net. They are promises that must be kept.

I did observe that you almost never had emergencies if you were doing pension law. I concluded that you could actually make a very good living doing pension law, but what you traded it for was being pretty bored most of the time.

We were pretty sure there was market manipulation going on, but you have to be able to prove it.

I do take the Jeffersonian principles very solemnly, and particularly the Jeffersonian idea that if you don’t believe that people have adequate knowledge to make decisions then the remedy is not to take the decision-making away from them, but to inform their discretion.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Debra Bowen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.