- Occupation: Labor Organizer
- Former City Hall reporter, Huntington Beach News
- BA History, Cal State University, Fullerton
- Huntington Beach resident for 20 years
- Elected to Green Party Council for Orange County (01-03)
- Organizer, Public Citizen (fighting water privatization in Mojave, and Poseidon desalination plant in Huntington Beach)
- United Farm Workers Interfaith Committee, Orange County
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Increase community participation and representation in determining city policies, especially budget priorities.
- Protect the city's natural treasures and stop water (and other) privatization scams like the proposed Poseidon desalination plant.
- Code of conduct for large corporations doing business with the city , including a living wage for their workers
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- Green Party of Orange County (8,000 members, about 900 in HB)
- Sandi Ecklund, president of UNITE/HERE Local 50 (Orange County)
- Rank and file voters who I speak to each day.
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- On The Need for a Code of Corporate Responsibility
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This a the text of a speech that I gave before the Huntington Beach City Council last Spring, asking that the city reconsider its business relationship with the Coca-Cola Bottling Company and create a code of corporate responsibility, similar to that on many college campuses, for large corporations that do business with the city. The actual speech may have been modified some at the last minute in order to meet the 3 minute time restriction during Public Comments.
- My Position on Health Care Benefits and Collective Bargaining Rights for City Workers
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This is the text of a speech that I had planned to give to the City Council last winter during the dispute between the Municipal Employees Association and the city over health care benefits. I did not give the speech, however, because a last minute agreement was reached prior to the public comments section of the meeting. Still, the text expresses my general views on how to deal with the cost of health care benefits and collective bargaining rights for city employees.
- Water and the Public Trust Doctrine
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These are two speeches I gave before the city council, one in November 03 and the other in Jan. 04 on the relationship of the proposed Poseidon desalination plant, the Public Trust Doctrine and the threat of water privatization under international treaties to our right to have democratic control of our water resources. The first speech was given prior to rejection of the Poseidon EIR, the second following the rejection by the council.
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