I am Michael J. Wozniak and I am a candidate
for Governor of California.
I was born in Oakland, California
on January
18, 1951. My father, A. Joseph
Wozniak was
a native of the state of New
York and was
a veteran of the attack on Pearl
Harbor.
My father was assigned to the
light cruiser,
U.S.S. Phoenix, anchored in Pearl
Harbor
on Dec 7, 1941. He was on his
way to church
that Sunday morning, then rushed
to his ship
to shoot back, as he was a Gunner's
Mate.
When the war was over, my father
remained
in California.
My Mother, Charlotte Marie Rodriguez
worked
in the shipyards during the war
as a welder.
She is a native of Los Angeles,
and assisted
in the war effort in Oakland
and Alameda.
When the war was over, they met
and I am
the result of that love affair
and marriage.
I was born in Oakland at Peralta
Hospital.
For a short time our family lived
in Hayward,
until my father bought a home
in San Leandro.
This house was built in April
1953 and it
is where I reside to this day.
As a child, I attended local
San Leandro
schools. When my father died
of a heart attack
in 1962 and my mother subsequently
remarried,
we moved to Contra Costa County.
After graduation
from Liberty Union High School
in Brentwood,
I secured a factory job in San
Leandro and
moved back into the family home.
I soon found factory work unsatisfying
and
attended the Santa Clara School
of Bartending,
and upon graduation, took a job
in San Mateo
as a restaurant manager. I changed
jobs taking
a bartending job in the East
Bay in Emeryville
at a dinner house. While there,
I became
interested in the Alameda County
Sheriff's
Department Reserve Officer program
and completed
that academy in 1975. I worked
as a Reserve
Deputy Sheriff until my employment
with the
Oakland California Police Department
in 1977.
I was a patrol officer for most
of my career
in Oakland except for a tour
as Desk Officer
at the main station of the Police
Department.
I retired from the Oakland Police
Department
in 1997 and have been working
part-time at
the Oakland Harley-Davidson dealership
since
then.
Michael J. Wozniak, Retired Police Officer
Candidate for California Governor
Special Election, October 7, 2003
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