- Party: Peace and Freedom
- Occupation: Neighborhood Council Treasurer
- Treasurer, Venice Neighborhood Council
- Communications Director, Calif. Faculty Assn.
- Board, SoCal Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
- former Pres., AFSCME Social Service Union, 1108
- Writer, Venice Beachhead newspaper
- M.A., Sociology - Cal State, Northridege
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Solve the budget crisis by raising taxes on wealthy and corporations
- Free, quality health care for all Californians
- More funding for education, affordable housing, restore rent control
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All candidates for this office were asked questions on the issues.
Read the answers from James R. Smith
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- California Nurses Association
- So. California Chapter, Americans for Democratic Action
- California Peace and Freedom Party
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- Playa Vista Phase Two Should Not Be Approved
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Sustainable development is needed in the coastal zone, not a mega-
development set on top of liquidfaction zone, causing more traffic and
more pollution.
- Corporate Greed has caused the supermarket strike
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Workers' health care and standard of living is being held hostage by a
few corporate executives who are concerned only about greater profits
and not about human needs.
- Rev. Martin Luther King - an appreciation
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Rev. Martin Luther King was a visionary who is still ahead of us. Many of
the ideas he advanced nearly 40 years ago are as relevant and as needed
today as they were then.
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