Candidate for
United States Representative; District 5

Pat was born and raised in San Francisco, California, the eldest of seven children. His mother lived in Germany prior to and during World War II, and his father is a decorated World War II combat veteran, After graduating from St. Ignatius High School in 1970, Pat volunteered to join the U.S. Navy, in part to learn a trade working with computers. He trained in San Diego and eventually shipped out aboard the USS Jason AR8, making several trans-Pacific voyages to ports in the Far East.

With an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy, Pat returned to the Bay area in early 1975 to a job building computer terminals in Silicon Valley at Data Measurements Corporation. Acquiring an interest in computer telecommunications, he went to work for Tymnet/Tymshare in Cupertino and began building early global data networks. Eventually in charge of special projects for that company, Pat traveled the world--France, Hong Kong, London--to aid clients in connecting to the network. He met his first wife Debbie, and the couple had a son and daughter who are both now in college.

In 1989 British Telecom purchased Tymnet, and Driscoll spent five years in the high-tech world working on major government and corporate projects. As part of a joint MCI/British Telecom executive team he helped negotiate and establish global data network operations between Tymnet, British Telecom, Concert, and MCI. In 1998 --now divorced from his first wife and working for MCI-- Pat married again and moved to North Carolina with his new wife. But when WorldCom outbid British Telecom to acquire MCI, Pat found he was out of a job. He moved back to the Bay Area and started his own software consulting business. In May 2000, after the death of his second wife, Pat moved to his current home in Curtis Park, Sacramento.

Pat registered with the Green Party in early 2001, out of frustration with the political system. After 9/11, he became deeply concerned about the root causes of the attack. For the first time he became politically active, attending rallies and in October 2001 joined Veterans For Peace, a national membership organization of Veterans dedicated to the elimination of war as an instrument of foreign policy. By August he had founded Sacramento VFP Chapter 87 with ten members. Currently there are thirty-six Chapter members. He has organized many local educational and activist events, including three direct actions at the Federal Building opposing the war with Iraq. Seventy-six people were arrested during these three non-violent actions, and Pat has been arrested twice, attracting local, national, and international media attention. Pat is also Vice-President of the Sacramento Chapter of the United Nations Association.