Candidate for
State Senator; District 31; Democratic Party

Marjorie Musser Mikels is a fiercely compassionate mother, an independent progressive who believes in traditional values that sustain life for all on the planet. When she is elected, she will help restore the economic health of the state while meeting the needs of all the people whose work and contributions make California great.

Since 2000, our country's economy has plummeted from surpluses to the worst deficit in U.S. history. Each state in the nation is drowning in red ink. California's plight was worsened by the energy deregulation debacle when Texas oil companies such as Enron bled our economy and stole billions from California rate and taxpayers.

If elected to the State Senate, Marjorie Mikels will:
1. Oppose burdening our children with billions of dollars of debt to solve our financial problems;
2. Stop gutting education, health care, and in-home support systems for short-term savings;
3. Prevent "privatization" of our natural resources and jobs that favors corporate special interests;
4. Demand repayment of billions looted by Texas oil companies that exploited California's energy deregulation crisis;
5. Create jobs in natural resource and water restoration, alternative energy research and development;
6. Promote wise growth, not unbridled urban sprawl and MAKE DEVELOPMENT PAY ITS OWN WAY!

Uphold Freedom/Justice

As a UCLA-trained Attorney Marjorie fights for Constitutional rights and against fraud, abuse, and corruption.

Fair Taxes

Marjorie supports raising state income tax rates on the highest earners and imposing inheritance tax on the most wealthy; she opposes fees, taxes and assessments that unfairly burden small business, homeowners, seniors, students and the poor.

Use Resources and Tax Dollars Wisely

The people of California deserve to have someone who cares about them. Marjorie says:

• I am for working men and women;
• I am for good jobs, health care and retirement;
• I am for students being afforded the best education;
• I am for the seniors having in-home services they need to remain independent and in their own homes;
• I am for more schools not more jails;
• I am for the disabled participating to the greatest extent possible in our society;
• I am for personal privacy and choice;
• I am for balancing the budget without loading debt on future generations.

• Increase state income taxes on highest wage earners;
• Sue and recover ill-gotten profits form Texas energy companies;
• Amend 3-strikes to include only violent crimes--decrease prison population and save millions;
• Institute California inheritance tax on estates over 5 million;
• Re-impose vehicle registration tax on cars over $40,000 and gas guzzlers;
• Tax pollution and demand that the federal government funds clean up of toxic poisons their weapons contractors dumped in our ground-water basins, such as perchlorate, and trichloralethylene, that cause cancer and development problems for our children;
• Recover funds from the federal government to cover services necessitated by our huge immigrant population--it is the federal government's job to secure the borders--not the taxpayers of the state of California;
• If all else fails we could legalize and tax California's largest cash agricultural product.