High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Holden Capps (May 5, 1934 – October 28, 1997) was an American politician. He was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives. Capps had lost an election to Andrea Seastrand for the 22nd district in California in 1994, which had been a landslide year for the Republicans. Seastrand, a conservative, was targeted for defeat by a coalition of labor unions. The Capps campaign was an indirect beneficiary of an 18-month campaign to defeat Seastrand that saw the labor unions spend an estimated $3.2 million, an amount that exceeded the warchests of the Capps and Seastrand campaigns combined. While driving home from a campaign event during the summer of 1996, Capps` vehicle was struck by a drunk driver. Capps was seriously injured and was unable to actively campaign until the final few weeks of the campaign. Despite his absence from the campaign trail, Capps won, even as Bob Dole edged Bill Clinton in the district.