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Santa Clara County, CA March 2, 2004 Election
Smart Voter Full Biography for Khanh D. Tran

Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 23; Democratic Party

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B.S/M.A. Management; former IT Manager, East Side Union High School District; Member of Management Team for San Jose Education Network and Netday `96. Two years as Coordinator II/Assistant Director for San Joaquin County Office of Education. Teach at National University http://www.nu.edu and the University of Phoenix http://www.phoenix.edu. Network Security Consultant for a Fortune 500 company. Candidate for Governing Board Member of East Side Union High School District in Election 2002 and received 20849 votes of confidence from constituents. Member of Association of California Schools Administrators (1995-2000); CSEA Member/Site Representative (1991-1995). Member of Governor Gray Davis No On Recall committee www.no-recall.com.

What issues are facing our California families? The troubled economy, jobs lost, costly living, health care, lack of affordable housing, emerging water crisis, expensive energy, fuel costs, shortage of teachers, shrinking state budget, high government fees and court fines.

As assemblyman, I will work to pass legislation to protect jobs and unionize the high-tech industry, subsidize businesses to increase hiring and training new workers. I will expand affordable housing with a rent-to-own option restoring hope and the American dream for every family. I will work on building desalination plants and pipelines powered by nuclear energy to address water and energy shortage. I will work to mass produce and service inexpensive fuel-efficient electric-powered vehicles, which will lower fuel consumption and fuel cost.

Expansion is needed to help California financially recover. Creating new jobs will provide new income tax revenues for our state. It will potentially increase consumer consumption, which will have a positive effect on our state sales tax revenues. Companies are moving jobs out-of-state and offshore. We need to stop exporting California jobs and start exporting our technology, services, and goods! Everyday Californians are leaving our state and taking talents with them. Californians are leaving, because they cannot find jobs and the high cost to live in California is making it impossible to maintain stability. When I am in Sacramento, I will work to rebuild the California economy and revive her as a business-friendly "High-Tech Capitol of the World" state. I want to keep the needed talents, businesses and jobs here in California while I work to lower the cost of housing.

Is it time to invest in our future and stop cutting state budget? We have the responsibility to help Californians in bad times as well as good times. As the seventh richest economy in the world we should not be cutting services that people depend on. I will work to increase tax credit for children, welfare, medical benefits, teachers recruitment, school improvement, education improvement, public safety, reduce fines and fees. I support new tax credit for seniors living together with their children, and I will work to waive income tax for senior citizens.

Helping families is my number one goal, don't save and rebuild California for us, do it for our children and our future!

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