- Party: Peace and Freedom
- Occupation: Steam Engineer
- Lifelong resident of the district, father of 4, married for 33 years to Margie Akin.
- South State Chair (2006-2008) of the Peace and Freedom Party.
- Life-long activist for peace and human rights.
- Active union member since age of 18 (Carpenters, Steelworkers, SEIU).
- Have written two published books on local history, and many articles on history and politics.
- Active in the community as a volunteer for various charitable organizations and activist groups.
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- We need full employment, decent wages, and a sharply increased minimum wage.
- Bring our troops home from Iraq now. No more senseless killing in a war based on lies.
- Tax the incomes and assets of the rich to meet human needs. Stop "corporate welfare."
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- State Central Committee, Peace and Freedom Party
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- Free Public Education - Up To University Level
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California once had free education through university level, and we can have it again. So can the country.
- We Need Real Democracy in Our Republic!
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Winner-take-all elections dominated by monied interests keep most Americans from real representation in Congress.
- Never Again! Reject Shameful Endorsement of Exile & Internment.
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With apparent Bush administration approval, the Blair government in Britain is seeking court approval for exiling a whole population based on the Japanese Internment of 1942-1945. Blair's lawyers seek to overturn a ruling giving the Chagossians the right to return to the Chagos Islands, from which they were brutally exiled at American insistence in 1973 before the Diego Garcia military base was built.
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