Candidate for
Mayor; City of San Leandro

• Creating Quality Jobs & A Prosperous San Leandro

I will starting by eliminating the business license fees for two years on new small businesses, and re-focus our business development on actively reaching out to attract new businesses and retain successful businesses already here. I will use my experience as an attorney and business owner to attract new grocery stores and restaurants to San Leandro, creating jobs and providing increased funding for police officers, our senior center, libraries, and pools.

• Protecting your Safety

I will promote collaborative efforts between our police and our schools to deter gang recruitment and criminal activity. Since only a third of those arrested for crimes in San Leandro are residents, we must work more regionally to combat crime and our officers must work more closely with neighboring police departments.

• Protecting your Pocketbook

We need leadership that is willing and able to solve our problems. I will enact real change, streamline administration, and control overtime. City employees work hard and deserve our respect, but they will have to start to contribute to the annual cost of their pensions. This alone would eliminate our deficit and avoid all layoffs of police or firefighters, and city employees would still get the same generous pensions when they retire.

Because leadership is by example I promise to not take a salary until the budget is balanced.

• Protecting your Health

With San Leandro Kaiser under construction, we have the opportunity to make our city into a hub for high quality medical care. As Mayor, I would build on the fundamental advantage of our existing medical facilities, rather than give up on it.

I am an active member of the Coalition to Save San Leandro Hospital, have written letters, Op-Eds, and spoken at town hall and city council meetings in support.

Because of my work to keep San Leandro Hospital open, I have been endorsed by Eden Township Director Carole Rogers and many physicians and nurses at San Leandro hospital, including Dr. Miles Adler, former Chief of Staff, and R.N.s Roxann Lewis and Lisa LaFave.

• Partnering with our Schools

My wife, a former San Leandro public school teacher, and I are raising and educating our daughters in San Leandro at our local elementary school, Roosevelt.

I will collaborate with both school districts, providing financial support of student programs from a balanced budget.

• A Child and Family-Friendly City

• Protecting your Quality of Life

• Local Support, Local Concerns

As a candidate for mayor I look to the people of San Leandro as my supporters and as Mayor my decisions will be based solely on the best interest of the people of San Leandro.

• A New Culture of Collaboration at City Hall

We must end the isolation of City Hall from the community. An important part of the job of mayor is to inspire and empower the community to achieve more. I will take a collaborative approach to governing and engage the public in open and honest dialogue.