Deborah " Debbie " Cook (born January 22, 1954) is a former mayor of Huntington Beach, California, and is a Democratic candidate for the California District congress. -46 in 2008. Cook was elected to the Huntington Beach City Council in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. He is president of the board of directors of the Post Carbon Institute.
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Cook was born on January 22, 1954, in Corpus Christi, Texas, where his father was stationed with the United States Navy. His father served in both World War II and the Korean War. Debbie was baptized into the Episcopal Church by her grandfather, an Episcopal priest, who also baptized her four brothers. After his father retired from the Navy, his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1966, he and his family moved to California, where Debbie attended Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California. During high school, Debbie was runner-up in the Miss Newport Beach contest, obtained a student pilot's license, completed an Outward Bound course and successfully climbed Mount Whitney.
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Cook attended California State University, Long Beach where he studied geography. Cook also has a J.D from Western State University College of Law. Debbie works part-time during college and excels at women's volleyball and swim team. Cook met her husband, John Fisher, in a co-ed volleyball class during 1975 and they married shortly afterwards.
Cook and her husband settled in Westminster, California. Cook trained and taught volleyball in Huntington Beach, and served as president of the Parents Teacher Association for Vista View School in Fountain Valley. In 1978 Debbie and John bought their small office equipment business for 14 years. During those years Cook acquired patents for the business shelf system.
Political career
As a political novice in 1990, Cook was the main force behind the Huntington Beach Measure C city voting initiative, a pro-environment Amendment Amendment change prohibiting the sale or lease of park or beach land without voting throughout the city. Despite being opposed by the majority of the city council opposed to the initiative, the voters agreed. At 37, Cook went to law school, earned degrees from Western State University and joined the California bar in 1994. Cook served as a lawyer for the Bolsa Chica Land Trust, and took part in the effort to preserve Bolsa Chica Wetlands from development.
City Council and Mayor
Cook was elected to the Huntington Beach City Council in 2000, and was re-elected in 2004. The Huntington Beach Mayor's office is a rotating position in the city council, and he has held the office twice. He has also served as President of the City Division of Orange City California League, Chairman of the California City League Policy Administrative Committee and the head of the Orange County County Commission. He helped lead the struggle to prevent Orange County Sanitation County from discharging partly processed liquid wastes to the ocean. In 2007, Huntington Beach joined the US Mayor Agreement on Global Warming.
2008 campaign for Congress
On February 2, 2008, Debbie Cook announced her Democratic candidacy for the 46th congressional district in California against President Rohrabacher of the ruling Republican Party. Cook defeated business owner Huntington Beach, Dan Kalmick on June 3, 2008 for a Democratic nomination.
The treasurer of the Republic of California Party filed a lawsuit against Cook and the Orange County Registrar regarding the appointment of Cook's ballot. The lawsuit has been seen as frivolous and politically motivated. It was dismissed by the California Court of Appeals.
According to the FEC report, Cook outwit Rohrabacher in the first and second quarters of 2008, although Rohrabacher overall collected $ 323,966 compared to Cook's $ 157,269 at the end of the second quarter of 2008. In the end, Cook failed to get rid of the incumbent, winning only 42.4% Rohrabacher 53.2%.
References
External links
- Voice OC Interview with Debbie Cook (Peak Oil) [1]
- SCAG Energy Summit: Debbie Cook [2]
- Candidates for Congress are prosecuted for using "Mayor" on the ballot.
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