Career
Guear served in the Assembly on the Intergovernmental Relations Commission (as Chair), the Homeland Security & State Preparedness Committee (as Vice Chair) and the Labor Committee. The two gains were among the three Republicans seats Democrats picked up in the Assembly in the 1999 elections, though the Republicans retained their majority. In his 2003 re-election campaign against Bill Baroni, Guear charged that Baroni had lied in his campaign biography by saying he was a lifelong resident of Hamilton Township.
Baroni had been born in Jacksonville, Florida to an unwed Irish woman who came to the United States to have her baby.
Catholic Charities arranged for him to be adopted by William Senior and Geraldine Baroni a few days later.