Candidate for
Member, City Council; City of Huntington Beach

Government is too big.

Government continues expand every day (it never gets smaller). Government is encouraging citizens to exchange their personal responsibilities for fewer liberties. Many don't care. Some view this as acceptable. I do not. I love my city. I fear the growth of my government. I intend to reverse this expansion. The 21st century is here. Change is coming to Huntington Beach.

I intend to reduce city government to a manageable level.

Government is too big.

A properly run city government is one which is invisible to it's citizens. The city must focus on using tax revenues to build and maintain infrastructure and nothing more. Government will then do a few things very well instead of many things poorly.

Government is too big.

Our children cannot catch grunion on the beach at night or fish on the pier at night or light sparklers on the Fourth of July as I was once was able. In my lifetime I have witnessed the city greatly diminish my children's freedom and liberties.

Government is too big.

I intend to go to city hall with a large eraser and eliminate the wasteful practices put into place over the years. A limited government is a cost effective government.

Government is too big.

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We have MAJOR infrastructure problems. We are consistantly preforming projects wrong the first time and then having to do them over to correct all the errors. We can never afford our infrastructure repairs if we have to build everything twice!

It would have been to cheaper to demolish the Peck reservior and start over than the way we choose to retrofit it.

We spent over $200,000 on water well 11 and then abandoned it!

We incorrecty built the city truck wash wall 40 feet high, knocked it down, and built it again.

The city must not be permitted to waste the peoples money!