- Occupation: Retired Chemical Engineer
- BS/MS Chemical Engineering-Ga. Tech, 1966, Registered PE since 1972, Member, AIChE since 1977, Cont. Ed. -Econ., SHOVM
- Retired from ChevronTexaco Mgmt Sciences. Teach Youth the processes of selecting and electing people to public office.
- Graduate: Leadership Contra Costa, 2002, Certified in Conflict Dispute Resolution, 2002., HOA Boards-25 yrs.
- Continuing Ed. in Practical Politics, Rules of Order, Financial Analysis, Statistics, Decision Analysis, Effects of Hazardous Materials.
- Award of Appreciation, By the Honorable Danville Mayor Don Ritchey, 1990, Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition of Outstanding
- Service, by the Honorable Congresswoman Ellen Taucher (D-10thCD), CA Assembly Certificate of Appreciation, By the Honorable Lynne Leach (R-15thAD).
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Improve Firefighter Health / Safety Reducing Worker Compensation Costs & Lost Time Injuries thru Preventative Health Care.
- Eliminate Deficit Financing. Improve the Jobs/Housing/Transportation Interface. Recover more State Revenues, Reduce Charges for Records to Residents.
- Improve Press/CCTV Coverage of Monthly Board Meetings and Election Year CCTV Debates for this 130,000 Population District.
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- Ralph endorsed by CCC Demo. Party. None of 4 by CCC GOP or daily news .
- The Republican National Committee, of which Ralph is a Life Member.
- The Democratic National Committee, of which Ralph is a Sustaining Member.
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- THE TIMES, Which has Near Monopolistic Control Over SRV Daily Print Media, has not Covered the Monthly SRVFPD Board Meetings for Years
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Ralph Hoffmann believes in Freedom of the Press. The daily print media should cover monthly Board meetings of the 130,000 person SRVFPD. THE TIMES, having near monopolistic coverage of the SRV hasn't covered the SRVFPD Board Meetings for years. Was an expensive, glossy, taxpayer paid "Fire Line", received in homes less than a week before the election, with names of the incumbent Board on the outer cover, worth the money? If elected I'll try to correct these things.
- Campaign to Combat the Discrimination and Stigma Persons with Mental Illness Face in the Western World
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Ralph Hoffmann overcame severe mental illness, and may yet win a Nobel Prize for efforts combatting discrimination of the mentally ill, working on several USA fronts to combat this discrimination. Ironically, persons of high achievement have had mental illnesses. I seek to eliminate the discrimination, just as women gained the right to vote in the USA in 1920, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez gained rights for Blacks and Latinos in the last half of the 20th Century.
- Ralph Scores Victories for First Amendment Rights of Freedom of Speech and Press, Seniors Access to Health Care
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By applying pressure Ralph had the Election Preview playback schedule for CCTV changed to only races where there is sufficient countywide interest. Ralph was helped by the Board of Supervisors, the County Election Office, CCTV Staff, and LWV-DV to make the changes possible. Ralph defended frail Seniors rights to get a flu shot after they stood in line for 5 hrs. at COSTCO and Albertson's in Danville by his "No Senior Left Behind Policy," and to eat nutritious fruit instead of cookies, cake.
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League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
