NEWS
March 7, 1986
After nine months of campaigning for the job of lieutenant governor, Bruce Nestande, a Republican supervisor from Orange County, made a mid-course correction Thursday: he announced he would run for secretary of state this June instead. Nestande, who at 48 was making his first bid for statewide office, said the decision was forced on him because an unusually strict Orange County campaign ordinance hindered him in raising the $4 million he would have needed to campaign for lieutenant governor.
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April 6, 1986
County Supervisor Harriett Wieder cries out that "few average citizens arrange a house rental by personally calling a building company president," as supervisor Bruce Nestande did. "That's blatant, and I would not touch what he did with a 10-foot pole," she said. Supervisor Ralph B. Clark said he "would never mix his personal life with the people he has got to do business with." Supervisor Thomas F. Riley says about the Nestande affair: "I am always conscious of this type of thing.
NEWS
June 20, 1991 | JEFFREY PERLMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
After a decade of service, Bruce Nestande said he will announce his resignation today from the California Transportation Commission, the state's top transportation panel. Citing the press of business, the former Orange County supervisor said he is quitting "because the time is right" and he wants to avoid any potential conflicts of interest between his commission duties and his job as a consultant for various Orange County developers.
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December 16, 1989 | JEFFREY PERLMAN
Former Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande has been named vice chairman of the California Transportation Commission, which oversees statewide highway and transit funding priorities. The panel's action in selecting Nestande earlier this week in San Diego means he will become chairman in 1991, when California will have a new governor.
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April 7, 1986 | LANIE JONES, Times Political Writer
By a vote of 184 to 54, the California Republican Assembly, California's largest conservative Republican volunteer organization, endorsed Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande for secretary of state in the June primary over Ralph E. Winkler, retired Air Force major. The vote by delegates of the 12,000-member group, which met in Fresno over the weekend, was a boost to Nestande's month-old campaign.
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January 22, 1987 | JOHN NEEDHAM and GEORGE FRANK, Times Staff Writers
Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande, whose departure had been rumored for weeks, resigned Wednesday midway through his second four-year term. A former GOP assemblyman and one-time aide to then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, Nestande said he will leave office Tuesday to pursue an unspecified career in the private sector. Nestande, who has been under investigation by federal and local authorities in connection with the political corruption probe involving Anaheim fireworks manufacturer W.