Eric korevaar biography
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A Look at Some of the Leading Declared Candidates
Cruz Bustamante
The state’s lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamante, 50, was cast into limbo by Gov. Gray Davis when, early in his term, he took issue with the governor on an issue related to Proposition 187, the anti-illegal-immigration initiative that voters passed in 1994.
Born in Dinuba in the San Joaquin Valley, Bustamante went to Sacramento as an assemblyman in 1993 and was Assembly speaker from 1996 to 1998.
He earned his spurs in Democratic politics by serving on the staff of Rep. Richard Lehman for five years and as an assistant to Assemblyman Bruce Bronzan for another five.
The first Latino elected to statewide office since 1878, Bustamante has been the recipient of large contributions from the operators of Indian casinos.
He was educated at Fresno City College and Cal State Fresno. In his first major professional assignment, he was director of the Fresno Summer Youth Employment Program for six years.
He and his wife, A
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By Ashley Mackin
In the voter information guide that went out for the June 3, 2014 Gubernatorial Primary Election, La Jolla residents might recognize a familiar name as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California: Eric Korevaar.
The La Jolla resident is running on the Democratic ticket against incumbent Gavin Newsom.
Korevaar has a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and sold his company, AstroTerra Corporation, in 2000. He worked for the acquiring company, MRV Communications, for three years after that. More recently, he has devoted time to consulting work and non-work projects, such as chairing the La Jolla Conservancy, which designed the Whale View Point project, before handing it to La Jolla Parks and Beaches for implementation.
He said he would apply a scientific way of thinking to the office, if elected.
“Instead of just getting to one side of a position, as a forskare, I would need to understand the issues behind it and find a solution that makes
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Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews
The Learned Eye takes its name from a passage in Franciscus Junius’s treatise on painting (1641) in which he argues for informed viewing as the essential skill on which critical aesthetic judgments must be based. This concept provides an appropriate framework for a volume dedicated to Ernst van de Wetering, whose acute and astute observations on the art of Rembrandt and his contemporaries have contributed to shaping the discipline of Dutch art history for more than thirty years. At a moment when the Festschrift or album amicorum is in danger of extinction due to publishers’ lack of interest, The Learned Eye presents an excellent model for the continuing viability of this venerable academic tradition. Beautifully produced, with many color illustrations, and yet available in an inexpensive paperback edition, this volume of essays by colleagues and former students of Van de Wetering manages to allow each author