State of California November 3, 1998 General
Smart Voter

What Jim Mangia Stands For:

By James J. Mangia

Candidate for Lieutenant Governor

This information is provided by the candidate
Reform Party Lt. Governor Candidate Stands for Political and Government Reform, Education Reform, Health Care Reform, and Environmental Reform.
POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT REFORM:
  • Term limits
  • Campaign finance reform
  • 25% cut in state bureaucracy
  • Institute an immediate 50% reduction in DMV car registration fees.
  • Redistricting reform: Appoint a non-partisan commission to redraw political district lines based on demographics and neighborhood boundaries, not partisan and incumbent special interests.

EDUCATION REFORM:
  • Create more charter schools
  • Return educational decisions to local communities
  • Break down educational bureaucracies, which prevent our children from learning.

HEALTH CARE REFORM:
  • Doctors and patients should make health care decisions, not health insurance bureaucrats.
  • Strictly regulate HMO's (health maintenance organizations) and managed care plans.
  • Provide tax incentives for businesses to provide quality health care programs for their employees.
  • Break the stranglehold of the insurance lobby on health care policy.

ENVIRONMENTAL REFORM:
  • Provide tax incentives for clean energy development and use.
  • Protect our coastal areas from rampant overdevelopment.
  • Support slow-growth: Stop overdevelopment of our communities.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
  • Increase tax incentives for businesses headquartered and hiring in poor communities.
  • Cut small business taxes.
  • Enact tax incentives to keep jobs and businesses in California.
  • Support fair trade policies, protect American jobs.

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM:
  • Protect individual rights.
  • Keep government out of our private lives.

DIVERSITY:
  • Promote unity not division.
  • Mount a massive voter registration drive in diverse communities across the state to reach the 50% of Californians who have given up on politics-as-usual and no longer vote.

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