Candidate for
United States Representative; District 12; Green Party

I have lived my whole life in this Congressional District. I am not pleased with the changes that I have seen in the programs of our federal government. I feel very strongly that our tax funds should be used to meet the needs of our people and to protect our environement.

My generation had the benefit of many programs that are now not available to the younger generation. No longer can one salary support a family. We are now working longer hours, the forty hour week and the eight hour day are only memories. I can contrast the conditions for families between the time I raised my three sons and the conditions now that I am helping raise my grandchildren. Things are much harder for families today.

As a young person I was able to go to college needing only the required grades, money was not the controlling factor. Public education was provided through the university level. I graduated from San Francisco State University and received a teacher's credential from the same institution. I then went to work teaching school for the San Francisco Unified School District. As a teacher I joined the union and was an elected official of the San Francisco Federation of Teachers.

After retirement I studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and am now a professional artist.

I am also a social activist. I worked for prop 186, for the single payer health care initiative, and for prop 9 to repeal the deregulation of our energy system. I wrote a measure that passed on the ballot of San Mateo County stating that we did not want a decrease in our taxes at the fall of the U.S.S.R., but we wanted the funds in our military budget to be redirected to our domestic programs.

That measure passed, but Representative Tom Lantos voted soon thereafter to raise the military budget. I am still working to insist on a reduction in the military budget so that we have the needed funds for our social programs. The horrible cuts in all kinds of programs are caused by the obscene military budget.

I am also working writing an initiative for Public Funding of Candidates. I think that there is the perception for many voters that their votes don't count--that politicians and elected officials are too beholden to the corporations that fund their campaigns. I am also working to pass an intiative on Health Care for All.

The theme of my campaign for Congress is, 'We must take another path', I think that our government is going the wrong way in so many ways. I am stressing ecology, democracy and community.