League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
	Santa Barbara County, CA November 5, 2013 Election
	Councilmember; City of Santa Barbara Voter Information 4 Year Term.

Candidates (Vote for 3) Click on highlighted name for additional information supplied by candidate. Contact non-highlighted candidates and encourage them to provide information for voters. Harwood "Bendy" White 8,884 votes 18.24% Occupation: Councilmember Santa Barbara County Planning Commissioner 1973-76 Santa Barbara County Planning Commissioner 1973-76 Founding Board member of the Environmental Defense Center 2-Term Board member of Planned Parenthood Santa Barbara City Water Commissioner 1982-1996 Priorities: Live Within Our Means Protect Santa Barbara's Character Safe Streets and Strong Neighborhoods Gregg Hart 7,829 votes 16.08% Occupation: Public Information Officer Santa Barbara City Council 1996-2003 (elected in 1995, re-elected in 1999) California Coastal Commission 2000-2004 (appointed by Governor Gray Davis) Santa Barbara City Planning Commission (1988-1995) Public Information Officer, Santa Barbara County Association of Governments 2005-present Owner, Transitions Preschool 1987-2007 University of California Santa Barbara, graduated with a B.A. Degree in Political Science Priorities: Public Safety & Safe Productive Opportunities for our Youth Long-Term Fiscal Planning Improved Public Transportation & Less Traffic Frank Hotchkiss 6,570 votes 13.49% Occupation: Businessman Vietnam Veteran Yale Graduate Priorities: Public Safety/Gang Injunction City Budget- Reducing city overhead and increasing reserves Improving the Economy/Increasing Jobs David J. Landecker 5,642 votes 11.59% Occupation: Environmental Non-profit Executive 2007-12 Executive Director - Environmental Defense Center 2001-2006 Executive Director - Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics 1980-1997 Owner and CEO - Menda Scientific Products, Inc. 1982-2007 Boardmember, Officer, President - Citizens Planning Association of SB County 1977 - J.D. Georgetown University Law Center 1973 - B.A. Claremont Men's College, with honors, magna cum laude Priorities: Implement new Santa Barbara General Plan principles and goals. Restore S.B. role as a national leader in municial environmental strategies and actions Encourage construction of new reasonably priced rental units along transporttion and commercial corridors Megan Diaz Alley 5,489 votes 11.27% Occupation: Educator/Writer Member, City of Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation Commission Founding Member, ECOFaith Former Coordinator, Community Environmental Council Holiday Light Exchange & other programs to promote energy efficiency Priorities: Protecting our quality of life by maintaining safe and healthy neighborhoods. Revitalizing our economy and creating jobs. Improving our local transportation infrastructure. Lesley Wiscomb 5,472 votes 11.24% Occupation: Retired Businesswoman B.A., Middlebury College Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 1973-1990 Financial Industry - Analyst, Salesperson, and Trader - New York 1993-2006 Landscape Architect and Project Manager - Brisbane, Australia and Seattle, WA Chair (4th Term), City of Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation Commission Board of Directors - Several Santa Barbara organizations Priorities: Preserving Santa Barbara's extraordinary qualities that contribute mightily to our quality of life and economic vitality. Ensuring our City and our neighborhoods are safe and clean. Implementing cost-effective long-term solutions to our issues, including gang violence, maintenance backlogs, and challenges within our neighborhoods. Jason Nelson 5,274 votes 10.83% Occupation: Civil Affairs Specialist Writer Army reservist Small business consultant Marine Corps Veteran Priorities: Public Safety- Youth violence and criminal vagrants Neighborhood organizational development Balanced budgets Michael Jordan 1,725 votes 3.54% Occupation: Businessman City of Santa Barbara Planning Commissioner Governor Brown appointee to Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board Board Member- SB Downtown Organization Board Member- Greater SB Lodging & Restaurant Association M.A. Recreation Administration Priorities: A community that is clean, safe and welcoming to all Restore support for programs that assist the truly needy and at-risk youth Increased levels of neighborhood say regarding the future of their neighborhoods Cruzito Herrera Cruz 1,227 votes 2.52% Occupation: Community Social Worker POLITICAL VIRTUE="EQUALITARIANISM" Civic Citizenship, Overall Civic Educationa, & Business Vocational Training. Same as 9, 11, 13 elections. "Equitable and Ecological Housing" - Create city policies that develops & pursues affordable & green-housing. Build Smart, Equitable, & Green. Fiscal Management & Prudent Oversight - Conduct a Fiscal Study through a financial goals and improvments. Redeveloped & rehabilitate the East & West Districts of SB under Healthy and Safety Codes of California. GOAL to serve. "District Based Election"- Elections Code 14026(3)(b) would politically serve better all of SB with transparency&accountability & SBVOTERS win. District Based Elections would allow for Native Indigenous, Chicano, Mexican-Americano to be elected because the at-large system abridges our vote. Priorities: Increase Budget Allotments to Parks & Recreations - CDBG & Human Service Programs that would promote a healthy and a safe Sta. Barbara. Improve the City of Santa Barbara's Public Infrastructure, like in 09 and 11 SB elections. District Based Elections - Elections Code Section 14026 (3)(b) and the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA and FVRA). 42 USC Section 1973 Matthew Hunter Kramer 584 votes 1.20% Occupation: Mine Boss, Scientist Santa Barbara City Beach Lifeguard Eagle Scout-Troop 33 Boy Scouts of America American Chemical Society and American Society of Testing and Materials Comendation from Salud Carbajal for charity work 2013 Created International requirement for Algae Jet fuel in comercial aircraft with FAA Father to a new Santa Barbara born citizen Priorities: Keep our streets safe and clean for enjoyment by our residents Create an economic development department to fill our empty storefronts with prosperity Return city funding to the arts, and social programs to prevent homelessness Basic candidate data supplied by the applicable elections official. Order of candidates is random and changes daily.

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