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Three Legislators Who Led the Way
SFGate.com, Editorial
08/29/2004
Senators John Vasconcellos, Byron Sher and John Burton thoroughly defy lessons A, B and C of the school of modern politics.
State Sen. John Vasconcellos: 38 Years of Pushing the Envelope
Simon, Mark
08/23/2004
In a fitting end to a 38-year career that always had a kind of far- out, tilting-at-windmills quality, state Sen. John Vasconcellos has spent his last legislative session pushing a diverse collection of crusades: giving teens as young as 14 the right to vote, providing clean needles for drug addicts and ensuring that every convict in California gets a good education.
Vasco's Legacy
Kupfer, David
07/01/2004
For Three Decades, John Vasconcellos Has Brought Insights from the Human Potential Movement to the California Legislature
Crusading Legislator Never Lacked Self-Esteem
Nissenbaum, Dion
07/13/2004
Sen. Vasconcellos stuck to his ideas despite long odds. Ten months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down at a Memphis motel, a young California lawmaker helped launch a campaign to honor the slain civil rights leader with a state holiday.
John Vasconcellos Takes a Victory Lap Around State
Schrag, Peter
12/01/2004
After nearly 38 years in the California Legislature, John Vasconcellos made his final exit from the place last week pretty much in the same way that he had served in it - calling for a "politics of trust," authenticity, inclusion and values - though hardly the kind of values that have been much in the news of late.
Self-Esteem Icon John Vasconcellos Still in Politics
Yost, Phil
12/18/2005
Is there life after a lifetime in the Legislature? John Vasconcellos answers in the affirmative. Vasconcellos spent a career, 38 years, representing Santa Clara County, first in the Assembly and then in the Senate, before term limits retired him at the end of 2004.
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