[1] After the 1991 redistricting the Pasadena, Altadena and Sunland-Tujunga areas gained their own GOP-leaning seat in the California State Assembly.
[1] Businessman Bill Hoge, backed by a host of conservatives, won a 10-way GOP primary and then defeated a weak Democrat to take this seat.
They recruited former Pasadena police chief Bruce Philpott to run against Hoge in 1994, but he was unsuccessful.
Hoge declined, thinking it was a safer bet to stay in the assembly.
[5] However, he was defeated for reelection by Democrat Jack Scott, former president of Pasadena City College.