Committee in 1988, as the highest vote getter, and was reelected in 1992, 1996, and 2000. Westly ran for California State Controller in 2002 against State Senator Tom McClintock and won by a margin of 22,730 votes (out of 7,258,758 votes cast). Westly garnered 3,289,839 (45.4%) votes while McClintock won the support