Pacific Coast Conference charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). Rivalries between the Pacific Coast Conference schools grew beyond athletics, with animosities around educational, financial and state rivalries. The tensions between the California and Northwest schools extended to Edwin Pauley, a regent of the University of California, disliking the member universities in the Pacific Northwest enough to advocate that the California institutions leave the Pacific Coast Conference to form a "California Conference." The PCC had a history of being very strict with
Pacific Grove, California of a mayor and six councilmembers, all elected at-large. As of the November 2016 election the mayor is Bill Kampe, and Robert Huitt serves as mayor pro tempore. The remaining councilmembers are Ken Cuneo, Rudy Fischer, Cynthia Garfield, Nick Smith, and Bill Peake. At the county level, Pacific Grove is represented on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors by Mary Adams. In the California State Assembly, Pacific Grove is represented by as part of the 29th Assembly district. In the California State Senate, it is represented by as part of the 17th Senate district. In the United States House of