[Please crosspost this to any other appropriate newsgroups] Tomorrow (June 7) is California's primary elections. I urge all registered California voters to vote. I also hope that if you are a democrat that you vote for Tony Miller for Secretary of State. He is well qualified and has good proposals for reform. He has a very good chance of winning, but only with everyone's vote. So go out and do it. The following endorsement gives more details about Miller's qualifications. The following is a San Francisco Chronicle endorsement of Tony Miller for Califonrnia's secretary of state. It is dated May 26, 1994. Miller for Secretary of State California's secretary of state is its chief elections officer and, as such, should be a person of the highest professionalism who is as free as possible of political partisanship. That is why we endorse acting Secretary of State Tony Miller in the Democratic primary on June 7. In a strong Democratic field, Miller is clearly the most qualified candidate, due to his 13 years of experience administering many of the operations of the office as the chief deputy to former Secretary of State March Fong Eu. Since Eu resigned recently to take a diplomatic post in the Clinton administration, Miller has been the acting secretary of state. Throughout his many years in the office, it has been run in an honest, exemplary and efficient fashion, free of scandal and immune from partisan pressures. During the campaign, Miller has put forth several important proposals for reform, most notably a proposed constitutional amendment that would make the secretary of state a nonpartisan office as a matter of law and a "truth-in- advertising" plan to help voters cut the clutter of lies and distortions surrounding ballot initiatives by requiring disclosure of the industries and organizations that pay for barrages of media advertising. He also has worked to increase voter participation, helping to pioneer such reforms as registration-by-mail, vote-by-the-mail and the federal "motor voter" act. It is also worth noting that Miller, a native a Plumas County and a graduate of the University of California at Davis, would become one of the highest-ranking gay elected officials in the nation if he wins the post that he is seeking. >From "Out Now!", a northern California paper dated May 31, 1994: If elected, Miller would the first openly gay person elected to a statewide constitutional office in California, and would be forth in line of succession to the governor. Miller stresses that the so-called "Q word" is not the main subject of his campaign, "unless you mean qualified," he's said. Miller - who has been with his partner for 21 years - supports AB 2810, the domestic partnership legislation which [has passed] the state Assembly.