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By Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 4, 1996
House District 9
Bill McGibbon
Republican
incumbent
McGibbon is a Green Valley resident who received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. McGibbon served in the Navy from 1966 to 1970. He is currently the director of the Green Valley Rotary Club Foundation and the Arizona 4-H Youth Foundation.
McGibbon's goals include advancing education reform and accountability, as well as rural, natural resource and state sovereignty issues.
Lou-Ann Preble
Republican
House District 10
Sally Ann Gonzales
Democrat
Received bachelor's degree in education from Arizona State University and master's degree in multi-cultural education from the UA. Gonzales is a former teacher in TUSD and now a program coordinator in the UA's College of Nursing. She served as a Pascua Yaqui Tribal Council member from 1992 to 1996. She Her goals include equalizing education funding and improving health care.
Robert J. (Bob) Motta
Republican
Attended Pima Community College. Motta is a retired Pima County sheriff's deputy and former businessman. Motta has served in District 10.
Republican chairman.
Motta favors returning education to the basics and giving communities greater control of schools. Some of his key issues include the right to bear arms, overhauling welfare and encouraging and protecting small business.
Ramon Valadez
Democrat
Received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering at UA. Valadez is now special assistant to Pima County Supervisor Dan Eckstrom. He has served as an aide to U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini and U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor. His goals include equalizing education funding.
House District 11
Steve Benefield
Republican
Graduated from Sahuaro High School and attended Pima Community College. Benefield works in the environmental services department of a nursing home. He was a candidate for Tucson City Council in 1993. His top priorities include making sure criminals receive appropriate sentences and keeping taxes down.
Carmine Cardamone
Democrat
Currently pursuing a political sciences degree at UA. Cardamone is an instructor for the developmentally disabled. He has worked for Sens. George McGovern and Walter Mondale in Washington, D. C. and as a District 11 committeeman. His goals include banning gifts and contributions from lobbyists and political action committees and focusing on environmental issues and health care.
Ora Mae Harn
Republican
Attended Pima Community College and the UA. Harn is the executive director of Marana Health Center and director of the Marana Community Food Bank. Her political experience includes serving as Marana Town Council member for 12 years and as mayor of Marana for six years.
Harn's primary goal is to make health care available to everyone.
Debora Norris
Democrat
Received a bachelor of arts degree in American history from Stanford University in 1993. She runs a family business and is a precinct committeewoman for the Democratic Party. She volunteers with the AIDS prevention program and recently joined the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood. Norris wants equalized funding for the public school systems, more access to affordable health care and is pro-choice.
House District 12
Freddy Hershberger
Republican
incumbent
Received bachelor's degree in drama from Vassar College. Hershberger managed Sen. Barry Goldwater's Southern Arizona office for 18 years and has served as committeewoman for District 12 from 1960 to the present. Her goals include improving educational funding.
Mark Osterloh
Democrat
Received bachelor's degree in pharmacy, medical and law degrees from the UA. Osterloh served on President Clinton's committee for health care reform and as District 12 Democratic chairman. His goals include expanding health care coverage to the needy, changing campaign fiancee laws and improving quality of education.
Dan Schottel
Republican
incumbent
Attended the UA. Schottel, a retired business owner, has served in the state Legislature since 1993. His goals include reforming school funding, raising education standards and lower the state's vehicle license tax.
House District 13
Freddy Hershberger
Republican
incumbent
Received bachelor's degree in drama from Vassar College. Hershberger managed Sen. Barry Goldwater's Southern Arizona office for 18 years and has served as committeewoman for District 12 from 1960 to the present. Her goals include improving educational funding.
Mark Osterloh
Democrat
Received bachelor's degree in pharmacy, medical and law degrees from the UA. Osterloh served on President Clinton's committee for health care reform and as District 12 Democratic chairman. His goals include expanding health care coverage to the needy, changing campaign fiancee laws and improving quality of education.
Dan Schottel
Republican
incumbent
Attended the UA. Schottel, a retired business owner, has served in the state Legislature since 1993. His goals include reforming school funding, raising education standards and lower the state's vehicle license tax.
House District 14
Sharon Collins
Republican
Received bachelor of science degree in education from Radford College. Collins a businesswoman and a former school teacher who works as a volunteer for a non-profit organization that works with at-risk youths. She wants to create a tax for school capital construction, increase state subsidies to the vehicle emissions testing program, and give tax breaks to motorists who convert vehicles to alternative fuels.
Herschella Horton
Democrat
incumbent
Graduated from St. May's Hospital School of Nursing, Evansville, Ind. and received a bachelor's degree in management from the University of Phoenix. Sponsored legislation to improve neighborhood schools and co-sponsored legislation to reduce business inventory taxes. Horton has 30 years experience in the health care field and six years in the Arizona Legislature. One of her key issues is affordable health care.
Charles Josephson
Republican
Received bachelor's degree in music, master of arts in mathematics and master of science in math education. Josephson is owner of a printing company. He has served on the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, as a precinct chairman and a district chairman. Goals include changing the way public schools are funded and improve the quality of public education.
Marion Pickens
Democrat
incumbent
Received bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA, teaching certificate from the UA, master of education degrees in reading and elementary counseling from the UA. Pickens taught in TUSD for more than 20 years and was a state representative from 1991 to 1992 and from 1995 to the present. Key issues include education finance reform and helping provide jobs for recent graduates.
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