Larry Bowler

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Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-08-1988	Republican	AD-10	62991	Loss
11-03-1992	Republican	AD-10	89449	Win
11-08-1994	Republican	AD-10	78831	Win
11-05-1996	Republican	AD-10	76654	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: July 30, 1939 in Sacramento, CA
Married: Melva (in 1973)
Children: Kimberly, Darren, and Monica
Military Service: USN

Previous: Lieutenant, Sacramento County Sheriff's Department (30 years)
Previous: President, Northern California Detention and Corrections Association
1995: Bowler led the effort to recall State Assemblyman Michael J. Machado.

• LEGISLATION: Author, Proposition 184 (1994), which created the Three-strikes Law for repeat offenders.
• LEGISLATION: Bowler authored legislation that prohibited possession of the drugs Rohypnol and GHB. 
• In a 1996 Los Angeles Times article, Bowler said that he occasionally carried a concealed semiautomatic .380-caliber handgun onto the Assembly floor during legislative sessions.
• Bowler was a proponent for Initiative 07-0020 (The Voters’ Right to Protect Marriage Initiative (to eliminate Domestic Partnership rights), which "provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

Source: California Legislature Handbook (1994)