Candidate for
Member, Democratic Party County Central Committee; County of Humboldt; Supervisorial District 4

I am proud to run on the 2012 California Democratic Party Platform. I strongly recommend it. The Platform may be found at cadem.org - activist resources - platform.

The bullet points of the Preamble (very lightly abbridged)read as follows:

The California Democratic Party will:

• Promote peace, rule of law, and human rights by instituting and funding time-tested and cost effective tools and strategies for peace ...;
• Seek the safe withdrawl of U.S. troops from all foreign engagements and the full reintegration of veterans and tax dollars into civilian life;
• Create a 21st century economy built on a diverse workforce educated in quality public schools by teachers enjoying the right to organize;
• Respect the civil rights and liberties of all American citizens, including rights to freedom of expression and assembly, as well as the inherent dignity of the person and the equal and inalienable human rights of all people;
• Ensure universal, comprehensive, and affordable health care for all Californians, preferably through a single-payer plan;
• Protect a woman's right to choose how to use her mind, her body and her time;
• Secure a dignified retirement for our seniors, protecting Social Security and Medicare now and for future generations;
• Promote energy self-sufficiency, building renewable energy industries to counter global warming and pollution to protect our natural resources;
• Build smart, sustainable, safe, equitable, environmentally sound, aesthetically pleasing, and caring communities;
• Insist upon fiscal common sense,responsibility,and accountability in California and Washington, through restoration of appropriate regulation and elimination of corporate personhood;
• Seek abolition of the death penalty through conversion of all death sentences to terms of permanent incarceration ...;
• Promote a reasonable path to citizenship for immigrants and demand respect for the human rights of all residents;
• Withdraw the profit motive from healthcare delivery, imprisonment, and war;
• Restore our fundamental civil liberties by reversing the evisceration of the Magna Carta, which created the right of habeas corpus in 1215 AD; oppose assassination of U.S. citizens and any policies that grant to a government unrestrained power to arrest, detain, transfer, or interrogate U.S. citizens without charge or trial; and,
• Promote the restoration of a fair and equitable system of taxation.

Further, I strongly support the removal of dams from the Klamath River.