Peter Frusetta

CA Blue Book 2000

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-03-1992	Republican	AD-28	44905	Loss
11-08-1994	Republican	AD-28	43696	Win
11-05-1996	Republican	AD-28	53649	Win
11-03-1998	Republican	AD-28	47735	Win

Candidate Biography:

Peter Clay Frusetta
Born: July 6, 1932 in Tres Pinos, CA
Married: Anita Filice (m. 1959), Helen Bettencourt
Children: Bob, Jen, Jack, and Nancy
Military Service: ARMY
Died: February 26, 2020 in San Jose, CA

Previous: Member, San Benito County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Previous: Director, Tres Pinos County Water District
2002: Primary Candidate for SD-12 (Lost; 37.3%)

• During the 1995 Speakership battle, Frusetta voted to elect Doris Allen (over Jim Brulte) as Assembly Speaker for one of the 1995-1996 Special Sessions.
• QUOTEABLE: His last whispered words to his son Robert were, “How’s the grass at the Ranch?” [Source]
• PUBLISHED: He proudly published, “Beyond the Pinnacles:  The History and Folklore of Southern San Benito County” (1990), “Quicksilver Country:  California’s New Idria Mining District” (1991), “Tres Pinos: Its Colorful Past” and “Working Cattle Correctly: A Cowboy Tutorial”

Source: California Blue Book (2000)