Bob Moretti

CA Blue Book 2000

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-03-1964	Democratic	AD-42	40492	Win
11-08-1966	Democratic	AD-42	37854	Win
11-05-1968	Democratic	AD-42	45242	Win
11-03-1970	Democratic	AD-42	40747	Win
11-07-1972	Democratic	AD-42	49713	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: June 3, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan
Married: Marilyn Ann Stotko (in 1958)
Children: Four (including Matt Moretti)
Died: May 12, 1984 in Sacramento, CA

1963: Consultant, Assembly Elections and Reapportionment Committee
1970: Chair, Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
1971-1974: Speaker, California State Assembly
1974: Primary Candidate for Governor (Lost)
1975-1977: Member, California Energy Commission

• LEGISLATION: Author of the Campbell-Moretti-Deukmejian Drug Abuse Treatment Act of 1972 (an assessment of the drug abuse problem in California).
• Moretti was the youngest member of the Assembly in 1964 at age 30.
• SCHOLARSHIP: "The Bob Moretti Memorial Scholarship Foundation was formed in 1984 and is available to California residents who will be attending a California college or university as an undergraduate and who demonstrate financial need, academic achievement and have an interest and/or experience with the state Legislative process."
• PLACENAME: A Bob Moretti memorial bench is located in Capitol Park at the California State Capitol. 
• QUOTABLE: "Have you ever seen Jerry Brown laugh?" asks Bob Moretti. "And you never will, probably. Ever once in a while, he'll cackle a little bit. I'm a people reader. I look at people who don't laugh and who don't love and who don't respect, and I say they got really deep, deep problems." [Source: Jerry Brown: The Philosopher-Prince]

Source: California Blue Book (1967)
Source: Jerry Brown: The Philosopher-Prince by Robert Pack, Stein and Day Publishers, NY (1978), p. 107