Richard K. Rainey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. (June 2008) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

Richard K. Rainey is a Republican politician from California. He was serving as Sheriff-Coroner for Contra Costa County in California's East Bay when he was elected to the California State Assembly in 1992, winning with 58% of the vote in a Democratic year. He easly won reelection in 1994 and narrowly picked up a Democratic-leaning state Senate seat in 1996. Although he was popular, was known as a hard-worker and had a relatively moderate voting record, Rainey was nevertheless defeated for reelection in 2000 by Democratic Assemblyman Tom Torlakson.