 Márquez was defeated for re-election in 2008, and also lost a mayoral bid in 2001 to Green Gayle McLaughlin.Jeff Ritterman is a cardiologist, politician, and activist from Richmond, California.He is currently vice president of the board of for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility

From 1981 to 2010 we worked at Kaiser Permanente's Richmond Medical Center where he rose to the position of chief cardiologist.