ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 4

Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004 | 1:22 a.m.

Republican Francis Allen is fighting Independent American Mark Andrews for the Assembly District 4 seat given up by Bob Beers, who is running for the Senate.

The heavily Republican district includes Sun City, and Republicans outnumber Democrats by a little more than 3,000 voters.

Allen, 27, is a copywriter who is known as an ardent campaigner. She won the Republican primary in 2002 in nearby Assembly District 37 and lost by just 134 votes to Democrat Marcus Conklin in the general election.

She got her start in politics by interning and then working full time for Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev. Allen also managed the Judiciary Committee for the state Senate.

Allen points out that many seniors and families in the district are on a fixed income, and she advocates limiting taxes.

She also promises to push for quality and affordable health care and protect residents in her district who still use wells for water. Several home invasions have taken place in her district, and she pledged to increase neighborhood patrols.

Andrews, 54, lists his occupation in his Sun questionnaire as being involved in finance.

He is a 30-year resident of Las Vegas, and has been an adjunct professor at UNLV and worked with the Boy Scouts.

The issues he wrote were important were similar to those of his opponent: reduce the tax burden and alter the formula for property taxes to protect home owners; improve education quality and accountability; and "restore and protect individual freedoms and honor the Nevada Constitution."