Candidate for
Member, City Council; City of Huntington Beach

About The Candidate

Born Nov. 22cnd 1955, Amityville, Long Island, I am the youngest of 3 children. I am a life-long lover of the natural world, and attribute this to having grown up in an inner-city environment (Brooklyn, N.Y.) -certainly no place for a boy!

School-

PS 158, Brooklyn N.Y.

Robert H. Goddard JHS 202 Queens, N.Y.

North Babylon Senior High, North Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.

Attended Suffolk County Community College, Seldon Campus, Seldon, Long Island, N.Y.

Military Service-

Served 2 years active duty and three years inactive reserve, United States Navy. 1 year 6 months Sea Duty aboard U.S.S. Hector (AR-7) as a Boatswains Mate.

I am an artist, a musician and an author. My works include lithographs, 2 CD's of original music (Rock/Blues) and my book entitled 'An Activist's Almanac' (unpublished).

Achievements-

Led wetland preservation movement that culminated in creation of Little Shell Wetland Preserve, Huntington Beach, Ca 2000*

Founding Member of Orange County Ocean Outfall Group, which stopped the Orange County Sewage Waiver (see http://www.stopthewaiver.com)*

Founder of 'Desal Is No Pal' movement, which stopped what would have been the Western Hemispheres largest Desalination Project*

Authored the California Democratic Party's 'Heritage Tree' State Resolution, accepted by the delegation at the 2003 State Convention in Sacramento, where I also served as a Region 18 delegate*

Goals for the future-

Stop the cutting of all remaining Old-Growth forests, stop all 'waivers' of the Clean Water Act, pursue my political, artistic and musical careers.

Joey Racano 9/15/04