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Abel O. Maldonado, Jr. (born August 21, 1967) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the 48th Lieutenant Governor of California from 2010 to 2011. Elected to the Santa Maria City Council in 1994, Maldonado then served as Mayor of Santa Maria from 1996 to 1998, when he was elected to the California State Assembly. He served in that body from 1998 to 2004 and then in the California State Senate from 2004 to 2010, running unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for California State Controller in 2006. Maldonado was the first Republican in the State Senate to vote for the budget during the budget deadlock in 2007. He represented a swing district in the Senate and is considered a moderate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Representing His District: Abel Maldonado—The Only Republican Senator So Far to Vote for the California State Budget )〕 On November 23, 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Maldonado as his nominee for Lieutenant Governor to fill the vacancy created by Democrat John Garamendi's election to the United States House of Representatives. Maldonado was sworn into office on April 27, 2010 and was defeated in the 2010 lieutenant gubernatorial election by Democrat Gavin Newsom. Maldonado ran for California's 24th congressional district in the 2012 elections, but was defeated by incumbent Democrat Lois Capps. In May 2013, he announced that he was running for Governor in the 2014 election, but dropped out in January 2014 after anaemic fundraising and campaign missteps. ==Early life, education, and farming career== Maldonado was born in Santa Maria, California and is the eldest son of immigrant Mexican-American farm workers. His family eventually acquired a small family farm, where they grew strawberries. After Maldonado graduated from Santa Maria High School, his family used their earnings from the farm to send him to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where he studied Crop Science, but dropped out before completing his degree. Maldonado brought his college experience back to his family's farm and helped his family grow the half-acre strawberry farm into a 6,000-acre (24 km²) farm, employing 250 people, with produce shipped around the world. He is married to Laura Maldonado and has four children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abel Maldonado」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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