Richard Ziser

Early life

Ziser was born June 7, 1953, in Pomona, CA, and has resided in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1991.

Education

Ziser graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) with a BS in Industrial Engineering, 1976; then subsequently from Simon Greenleaf University in Santa Ana, CA, (now a campus of Trinity International University, with an MA in Christian Apologetics in 1989.[1]

Career

U.S. Senate candidacy

In 2004, Ziser defeated 5 rival candidates in the Republican primary, then ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Harry Reid, losing 61%-35%.[2][3] In 1998, Ziser lost his election bid to be on the Clark County, Nevada School Board.[4]

Political activity

Ziser rose to political prominence as the leader of the effort to ban gay marriage in Nevada.[5][3] He headed the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage, a successful, four-year campaign that succeeded in amending Nevada's State Constitution to define marriage as a union between "one man and one woman" in 2000.[3][6][7][8]

In light of the Nevada Legislature's overriding of Governor Jim Gibbons' veto on domestic partnership legislation; due to take effect October 1, 2009. Ziser stated his intents to overturn the legislation as unconstitutional.[9]

Ziser was also a right to life activist, actively opposing legalized abortion by proposing a Personhood Constitutional Amendment designed protect the "right to life," of the foetus.[6]

See also

References
  1. 2004 Election Profiles, Nevada Senate, Richard Ziser (R), Washington Post
  2. "General election results", Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 04, 2004
  3. Neff, Erin (8 September 2004). "Federal races go as expected". Las Vegas Review - Journal. ProQuest 260172560.
  4. Jane Ann Morrison, "Panel dismisses complaint over political ad", Las Vegas Review-Journal, September 25, 1998
  5. Robertson, Tatsha; Freiss, Steve (23 November 2003). "GAY MARRIAGE DECISION SPURS ACTION ACROSS US". Boston Globe. ProQuest 404841726.
  6. Foegel, Ed; Spillman, Ben (22 October 2009). "Nevada abortion statute targeted: Activist pursues personhood petition". Las Vegas Review-Journal. ProQuest 457358653.
  8. Neff, Erin (10 February 2004). "Ziser: Massachusetts shows gay marriage ban needed". Las Vegas Review - Journal. ProQuest 260172871.
  9. Martha Bellisle, Nevada partners law to enable registered couples to adopt children", Reno Gazette-Journal, June 4, 2009

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Party political offices
Preceded by
John Ensign		 Republican Party nominee for U.S. Senator from Nevada (Class 3)
2004		 Succeeded by
Sharron Angle
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