CAMPAIGN FEATURES TOUCH OF WHIMSY\Assembly hopeful Hogan says she's low-spending alternative.

Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer

While her 36th Assembly District competitors have raised tens of thousands of dollars for their campaigns, Barbara Hogan lists a pig named Bob as a major donation to her campaign.

A neighbor had given her the animal to be the main course at a fund-raising luau, but Hogan says she hasn't the heart to kill the animal. Her refusal to serve up Bob is symbolic of her campaign, Hogan says. In other words, she's not going to offer any baloney.

"Bob says 'No baloney,' " Hogan said.

Hogan is, even by her own admission, a long-shot candidate for the Assembly nomination. She is competing in the March 26 Republican primary against three men who have raised tens of thousands of dollars for their campaigns.

Hogan is hoping voters will be put off by big-buck campaigns and will look for an alternative.

"The only thing I have going for me is that I don't have anybody I have to please," Hogan said.

In a letter describing her views, Hogan said she is dumbfounded by candidates spending far more on a political campaign than the winner will earn during the term.

"I know a lot of it is donated money, but it doesn't seem logical to me that someone would give me large sums of money to represent the public good," Hogan wrote. "I have a peculiar idea that public servants are called that for a reason."

Hogan's last political campaign was also a bit unusual. She campaigned against a proposal to create a flood-control district throughout the Antelope Valley, while at the same time she ran for a seat on the proposed district's board. She won both campaigns in November: The proposal was defeated, but had the district been created she would have served on its board.

Hogan believes she and her fellow Republican competitors - Lancaster Mayor George Runner, Santa Clarita City Councilman George Pederson and former Antelope Valley Union High School District trustee Billy Pricer - are close on most issues.

Hogan described their shared positions and goals as opposition to gun control, bringing more jobs to California, reforming welfare and the education system, ending ethnic and racial quotas, and, in her words, recriminalizing crime.

The difference between her and the rest of the field focuses on two issues, Hogan said: abortion and separation of church and state.

Hogan said she personally is against abortion, but believes the government should stay out of the issue.

"You can't give the government control over your body," Hogan said.

Hogan said teaching religion in schools is a death trap, leading toward a religious government. The nation's official religion would change with whoever was in power at the time.

Hogan is a businesswoman and a board member of the Littlerock Creek Irrigation District. She believes her diverse resume gives her a better feel for the average voter than her competitors have.

Hogan's resume includes stints as a sales clerk, waitress, truck driver, bookkeeper, accountant, property manager, mail carrier, computer operator, real estate sales and farmer.

The winner of the Republican primary will face Democrat David Cochran in the Nov. 5 general election.