Stephen Peace
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J. Stephen Peace (born March 30, 1953 in San Diego, California) is a film writer and producer. His credits include the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes series. He is also a politician in California.
He served in the California State Assembly from 1982–1992 and the California Senate from 1993–2002. He wrote the electricity deregulation bill that may have resulted in the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001. After being term limited out of the assembly he was appointed Director of the California Department of Finance (a non-elective administrative post) by then governor Gray Davis. After a relatively short time in this office he was replaced after Davis's recall by Davis's successor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.