Candidate for
Member, Democratic Party County Central Committee; County of Alameda; Assembly District 18

"In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank god, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment."
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt Mar. 1934

"They say 'everything would be so cheap,' if we only had free trade. Well, everything would be cheap and everybody would be cheap. I do not prize the word 'cheap.' It is not a word of hope; it is not a word of comfort; it is not a word of cheer; it is not a word of inspiration! It is the badge of poverty; it is the signal of distress; and there is not a man in the audience, not a white-haired man, who, if he will let his memory go back, will not recall, that when things were the cheapest, men were the poorest. ... Cheap? Why, cheap merchandise means cheap men, and cheap men mean a cheap country; and that is not the kind of Government our fathers founded, and it is not the kind their sons mean to maintain. If you want cheap things, go where you can get them.... We want labor to be well paid."
Pres. William McKinley

"The issues are not really much different today, than they were ten, twenty, or thirty years ago; the difference is, that suddenly, after all these years, you are being forced, finally, to pay attention to the real issues, which were there all along. It is not so much that the world has suddenly changed, as that onrushing reality which you have been avoiding for many years too long, has now struck."
Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. 'The Road To Recovery'

That sums up the issue, generaly, about what I face as a potential member of the Democratic Central Committee. And, I hope to live up to the standards of a Franklin Roosevelt or William McKinley in a drive to reform the current Democratic Party from it's suicidal adherence to 'suburban values', and a return to fighting for the 'forgotten man'. As the state, indeed, most of the states face terrific budget shortfalls, we hear calls for cuts in the most vulnerable areas of the population; poor, elderly, handicaped, & young. The principle of our party should be 'People First!', shareholder values last. U.S. Budget Deficits Headed Toward Record Heights

That means first, the Democratic party must repudiate the turn away from the Franklin Roosevelt legacy, when, in the 70's and 80's, emulating Nixons alliance with the Ku Klux Klan in the Republican "Southern Strategy", under the mis-leadership of figures like Zbigniew Brzezinski, and organized crime linked Michael Steinhardt, the Democrats started emulating the Republican party.

I'm fighting for a return to the former FDR constituencies of Labor, minorities, farmers, senior citizens, etc., nominally the 80% of the lower income brackets. To move away from the disgusting begging act, in the appeal to the upper 10%'s income brackets $$$$. People I normally talk to, whether in the Bay area, Los Angeles, the central valley, or Idaho, New Jersey, and Connecticut, have the distressing refrain that they don't see a Democratic party, or any party for that matter, that represents them any more. Don't talk about beating Bush until you address this.

Push for the total abolishment of any form of deregulation or privatization in areas of health care, power, education, & transportation beyond the basic needs of the general welfare of the population. A general history of the need for regulations can be found at the website Regulation: The Fight Which Saved the Nation.

That Vice-President Dick Cheney, using political office for profit of a company he is currently a stockholder, pushing intelligence on his President, Congress, and american people while knowing that said intelligence was false for purposes of war and profiteering, and pushing policies that are by legal definition fascist in nature, I hereby demand impeachment hearing against said Vice President Cheney. Vice President Cheney Can Be Removed from Office Now!

Using all legal means possible to prevent and reverse Governor Schwarzenegger's budget cutting austerity measures, using the prescedent of Judge Jacksons decisions at the Nuremburg trials of Nazi leaders, that 'you knew or should have known' that the decisions made would result in an increase of the death rates among the more vulnerable sections of our population. A similar case was former Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge, who's health cuts resulted in increased death rates. Draft Revolution to Impeach Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.

Push a Franklin Roosevelt style Tennessee Valley Authority approach to job creation in areas of public infrastructure to generate needed revenue in our cash starved communities. The bay area is a natural crossroads to the 3+ billion human beings in Eastern and Southern Asia and can serve as a jumping off point both by ship and rail corridor through Alaska, the Bering Strait, into Asia. The bay area being ideally suited for such a task by the various numerous immigrant communities living around the area.LaRouche Tells You What You Must Do About the Economy--Now