Voters Edge -2022
My Top Priorities
1. Military Industrial Complex control of media and the two main political parties and censorship of alternative information from their profit driven narratives.
2. Our government and media are not treating climate change like the serious crisis it has become
3. The Military Industrial Media Complex has split the country into extreme hatred between Republicans & Democrats despite both having similar basic needs and wants
What legislation, if any, would you support to reduce American greenhouse gas production? Please explain the reasons for your position. Source: League of Women Voters of California
New Green Deal – creates new jobs in alternative energy fields would promote use and creation of products away from need for fossil fuels,
Medicare for All – besides creating affordable comprehensive healthcare for everyone it would encourage government as the payer to promote more healthy diets (less corporate fossil fuel agriculture) and to promote the elimination of toxic sources of pollution
Tax the billionaires and those with more than $10 million out of existence through aggressive income tax and wealth taxes. These super wealthy people distort our government system by helping elect politicians that cater to their profit-making desires rather than the long term needs of the people and society.
Guaranteed livable income for all American adults that would (besides Medicare for All) end the economic grip of the “for short term profit” multinational corporations in favor of more local small and co-op business workers that would care more for long term health, safety, and sustainability of their society
Use of 100% renewable, reusable and repairable products that would drastically cut down of extraction and waste of the world’s valuable resources.
Should immigration laws be changed? What changes would you support? Please explain why. Source: League of Women Voters of California
Change our foreign policy into one that acts in the best interests of both the American people and the people in other lands. Provide foreign aid to other countries that will help the people live better lives instead of more military aid that promotes the worst in these countries. If we help to make other countries better for the people living there then there is less pressure for them to immigrate except in a more natural regulated way.
As to our near neighbor, Mexico, and other countries, I would propose creating a simple low cost 10-month work entry visa for anyone to enter the U.S. which is renewable as long as they leave the U.S. for at least two months between Visa entries. This would help eliminate most of the “coyote” business, the need for the dangerous illegal entry, and discourage the need to bring families. No control of immigrant workers by any specific business or corporation. Might require some proof of employment and special Social Security # via same documents other Americans have with the IRS. Not sure how to deal with pregnant women that might enter U.S. just to give birth to an American citizen. Maybe not a problem!
As Congress Member what, if any, policies or legislation would you support to preserve democracy for all US residents? Source: League of Women Voters of California
Keep the internet free and do not allow social media giants to censor and control speech for any political reasons. There has been massive censorship, banning and removal of videos and posts that do not support the government/ corporate media narratives. This is the major tools of authoritative and Fascist governments.
Bring back and expand the fairness doctrine that was eliminated in the early 80s. It has resulted in divisive talk shows, news outlets that have polarized the nation into hate filled Democratic and Republican constituencies.
Eliminate the open primary unless the top 4 candidates along with write-ins can go to the General election. Ballot statements for all candidates should be allowed without cost. These two items have effectively eliminated third parties from the full election system in CA.
If the above items and others to create a well-informed population about issues from many viewpoints is addressed, then every American citizen 16 and older should be allowed to vote with no exceptions. Even the incarcerated should be allowed to vote according to their last known address or voting registration.
No laws should be enacted that would prevent, discourage, or make difficult the ability for any American citizen to vote! There should be allowed local consideration for Green Card holders and eligible family to vote in some local elections such as school boards and park districts.
The Federal Government plays a part in California water allocation and use through a variety of projects and laws. What, if any, new programs or projects or reforms to existing programs and projects would you support in an effort to handle water shortages caused by the current and any future drought? Source: League of Women Voters of California
Water resources and distribution systems should never be allowed to be privatized for profit. Corporate agriculture farming that grows water intensive plants should be discouraged such as rice in the central valley desert. There should be a special water usage tax on the profits of large corporate farms for their water usage whether from canals, pipe systems, rivers, lakes or underground well sources. Water costs should be determined by food crops grown, usage in CA, rest of the U.S. and the world market.
The federal government needs to declare the existing climate crisis an emergency and tackle the problem as we did when we mobilized for WWII.
Reservoirs have proved important in the past, but such projects must be highly scrutinized for cause-and-effect problems on the environment, people and species protection. If it can be done energy and environmentally safe perhaps desalination projects might be possibility.
Recycled use of water and keeping water from being polluted are also areas that should be addressed. Single use bottled water and other drinks should have increased CRV costs and be evaluated as to their water sources and effects on various communities.
As with all issues this candidate would never create or support legislation once in office without serious research and education that considers all viewpoints on every aspect of the issue.
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2022 iVoterguide
9/11
Investigate the 9/11 attacks as it was clearly an inside job. Severely punish those in our government that have been responsible by ratifying the U.S. acceptance of the international Court and help the prosecution these traitors as many were pardoned by President Obama when he took office as President. Apologize for all the wars, lives lost and damage we have caused the people of the greater Middle East nations and pay serious reparations to rebuild and compensate all that we have done wrong these past 21 years.
I have since 2005, after the release of the 9/11 Commission Report, offered $100K in reward to anyone who can prove or demonstrate that our government with corporate media assistance was not involved in planning, implementing, and covering up the 9/11 attacks. Absolutely, nothing is true about the government’s narrative on the 9/11 attacks. www.911Reward.org
Environment
The climate catastrophe rapidly approaching the world requires a WWII like 100% response that must involve all nations especially China & Russia. There is no sanity in creating any kind of conflict with two smaller but still military powerful nations if civilization and the world are to be saved!
Foreign Policy
We did not heed President Eisenhower’s parting words about the dangers of an increasing Military industrial complex in the U.S. We now have a Military-Industrial-Prison-Media complex that totally controls our government, both major political parties, corporate media and almost every aspect of our lives!
The U.S. Government has no history since WWII of helping any nation to promote democracy outside of some of WWII devastated European nations and Japan. The U.S needs to drastically reduce its military budget and close most of the 800 some military bases across the globe. The U.S. foreign policy and aid should only be for improving the lives of the citizens of foreign nations. The U.S. needs to stop becoming the world’s largest weapons manufacturer and distributor! That’s our tax money being wasted to kill other people rather than make our lives better at home. We should act to discourage other nations that have joined us to distributing weapons all across the world.
Before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King boldly stated that the U.S. had become the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. I say it has only gotten much worse.
If we want a better world, we need to make the U.S. the greatest purveyor of Peace & Justice in the World ASAP. We are all doomed if we don’t do this!
Reparations
Reparations should be given based on the level of oppression on going and in the past. Reparations are best determined by those of the oppressed group and in consideration of society as a whole. I tend to lean more to a societal reparation where those in need receive special help whether it be in education, housing, health, business opportunity or general living conditions!
Racism
Certainly, there are racist elements in the discourse and laws enacted by Republican leadership. The country is currently severely polarized and deeply divided. Racism seems to be a significant if not the only reason splitting our nation in two.
Environment
Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost. I believe the rapidly pending climate catastrophe demands we deal with the issue with a global effort that is similar to the efforts that went into fighting WWII by nations!
Police Reform
I am a member of the Oscar Grant Committee. We fully support the prosecution of police who have committed unnecessary violence against people they have interacted. The police should be highly trained in deescalating situations not turning them into an excuse to use violence often fatally in many cases.
The police have shown themselves to be total incapable of positive interaction with those they interact with who have mental problems or episodes. Highly trained unarmed social workers should be first responders to situations of mental crisis. If it is determined by these social workers that armed police might be necessary at the scene, the police should still be under the direction of the social worker as to helping deescalate the situation.
Israel
The U.S. needs to take the lead on ending Israel’s block aid of goods into Gaza, if necessary, by military escort of ships trying to unload in Gaza. No further aid should be given Israel until they tear down all the wall barriers in the West Bank and the U.N. and various humanitarian groups can certify that Palestinians are being treated humanely and fairly. The U.S. & U.N. should help Israel to reintegrate Palestinians into Israel society and stop blocking U.N. actions concerning Israel.
Gun Ownership
We have many restrictions concerning the training and use of motor vehicles. There is no excuse for not having safety restriction on the ownership and use of guns. Expanded gun purchase background checks with no exceptions for private owners, gun shows or dealers to sell a weapon. A license and certified training should be required. No one with a violent felony should be allowed to own a gun. All guns should have an ID number that is recorded and submitted if sold. Would be purchasers of guns should be required to be certified as mentally competent and otherwise allowed to own a gun. Possession, creation, or distribution of Ghost guns should be a felony. Parents are criminally and financially responsible for the possession and use of firearms by their children.
I would favor not allowing open carry of weapons unless approved for a specific place and time! Assault weapons ownership should be illegal except by certified collectors. All firearms should have safety mechanism that prevents young children from firing it accidentally.
Election System
First, we need to reinstate an even stronger and more comprehensive Fairness Doctrine that was eliminated in the early eighties! The public needs to hear and learn a variety of opinions in order to be a responsible voter on the issues and candidates. Only, then can we have an educated population where all adult citizens can be automatically registered to vote. Without the Fairness Doctrine we have become a polarized nation where people feel forced to vote for one or another of the two major political parties which represent the deep hate filled split in our population. There is no longer much voting on the merits of candidates and their viewpoints since the Fairness Doctrine was eliminated! Without an educated population charismatic popular name recognized authoritative demigods are more likely to win elections
No state or federal laws should be allowed that prevent, discourage, or hinder the right of adult citizens to vote. Laws should only be enacted to encourage more voter participation not less.
I believe 16-year-olds should be allowed to vote. Youth studying and participating in elections while in high school would help create a more engaged and educated future electorate.
We need to get big money out of our elections. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United was a disaster for honest elections. Barring changing the court decision, publicly financed candidates should be given enough funding to neutralize the advantage of big money sponsored candidates then might run against.
Likewise, we need an election system that encourages and promotes third party participation. The two major parties along with corporate media have made third parties almost irrelevant if not extinct in many places!
The electoral college should be abolished or neutralized as is being attempted in getting enough states to pledge all their delegates to the popular vote winner in Presidential elections.
Healthcare
Healthcare should be a guaranteed right of all people. Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government as in “universal healthcare,” or “medicare for all”. As we have seen with covid and other diseases it only makes sense to cover everybody in the U.S. regardless of their immigration or visitor status. Medicare for All exists in a variety of forms across the industrial nations of the world. We thus should be able to create the best Medicare for All in the world!
It is insane that the U.S. does not have Single Payer Medicare for All like most of the nations in the industrial developed world. Millions of Americans have died and tens of millions have suffered from the lack of affordable quality healthcare. Although Democrats have had total control of California for years and their platform calls for Medicare for All, the corporate beholden Democratic Party always finds a reason not to pass Medicare for All during the past ten years despite supposedly progressive Democratic Governors. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor, he twice vetoed in 2006 and 2008 the only Democratic legislative Medicare for All bill ever passed in California. Despite increasing Democratic control in California where Republicans effectively have no say, Democrats continue to refuse to pass Medicare for All despite overwhelming support among the public.
Because of how poor our current profit driven insurance driven healthcare has been, we should expect some initial increased costs caring for people that have long been neglected. As everyone first starts getting the complete affordable healthcare that have been denied in the past, overall healthcare costs will go down gradually in future years.
With the government covering all of Medicare for All costs, the government would have a tremendous incentive to make all our lives safer in the products we buy, the food we eat, in promoting lifelong healthcare, in creating safer work and living environments, in a less toxic environment in our air, water and ground and more.
I have heard many great ideas on how Medicare for All would pay for itself. I would like to offer an additional way that I have never heard mentioned. The top 25 products or services that are shown to cause adverse medical conditions in people, should be charged a surcharge to cover those medical costs. For example, if car accidents cause several $billion in health costs each year, then the that cost over the average life of the car should be added to the manufacturing cost of the car. This would help the government in covering healthcare costs from car accidents. This shouldn’t add significant costs to the car manufacturer but would save the taxpayers significant in paying for Medicare for All. There would be additional incentive for car manufacturers to make safer vehicles!
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2022 Ballotpedia
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?
9/11 I am a 9/11 truther! Since the release of the 9/11 Commission report in 2005 which I consider a flat-out confession by my government, I have offered an unclaimed reward of $100,000 to the first person who can prove or at least demonstrate to my satisfaction that my government did not plan, manage, execute and cover-up the events around the September 11, 2001, attacks. My website is http://www.911reward.org.
Drone Warfare I have been arrested over a dozen times protesting against the U.S. Drone Assassination program at either Beale AFB or Creech AFB for close to 10 years. These drone attacks have killed thousands of civilians, terrorized millions more in countries we are not at war. These drone attacks are in violation of our U.S. Constitution and International Law.
Healthcare It is insane that the U.S. does not have Single Payer Medicare for All like most of the nations in the industrial developed world. Millions of Americans have died and tens of millions have suffered from the lack of affordable quality healthcare. Although Democrats have had total control of California for years and their platform calls for Medicare for All, the corporate beholden Democratic Party always finds a reason not to pass Medicare for All during the past ten years despite supposedly progressive Governors. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor, he twice vetoed in 2006 and 2008 the Democratic legislature passed Medicare for All bills.
Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign.
First Key Message Military Industrial Complex control of media and the two main political parties and censorship of alternative information from their profit driven narratives.
Second Key Message Our government and media are not treating climate change like the serious crisis it has become
Third Key Message The Military Industrial Media Complex has split the country into extreme hatred between Republicans & Democrats despite both having similar basic needs and wants
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
These are the types of people I look up to as examples on how I should live my life! All of the people mentioned below, including others I have either momentarily forgotten or have still to learn about, are people I look up to as role models because in their lives they have pursued peace, justice, human rights, the environment and the truth!
We have a government and mainstream media under the control of the military-industrial-prison complex and a few hundred powerful and rich people who comprise the Deep State. They are real and too be feared. They act to smear and frame those who might successfully oppose them. When that fails, they have orchestrated the deaths of outspoken leaders such as JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm X. They attack, imprison, exterminate whistleblowers and activists like Paul Robeson, Karen Silkwood, S Brian Willson, Judi Bari, Mumia Abu Jamal, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Ralph Nader, among others. They conspire to keep or remove from political office those who would defy them publicly, such as Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and Bernie Sanders.
I highly respect the many censored Journalists, Researchers and Activists for example: Chris Hedges, Abby Martin, Glenn Greenwald, Richard Wolff, Rosa Parks, Jesse Ventura, John Pilger, Ray McGovern, Robert F Kennedy Jr., Media Benjamin, Richard Falk, Noam Chomsky, Jim Hightower, Norman Solomon, Benjamin Linder, Rachel Corrie, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Kim Chi Ha, Harvey Milk, Che Guevara, Medgar Evers, Eugene Victor “Gene” Debs, Steve Biko, Leonard Peltier, Cesar Chavez, Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ed Ashner, Martin Sheen, Jane Fonda, Richard Boyle, Óscar Romero and the many who have worked hard to expose the lies about 9/11 .
I also have had many personal activist friends over the years whom I greatly respect for their pursuits of peace, justice, human rights and the environment, whom I won’t mention because the list would be long but always incomplete. They know who they are, and I thank them for being a part of my life’s journey!
What are your thoughts on term limits?
I think that we need to have a society that has equal access to all viewpoints! In other words, we need a truly informed public first. We also need an election system where money does not determine the views and opinions of candidate. At the moment money has a greater ability to elect candidates rather than one views and policy beliefs, so term limits would act to eventually eliminate progressive minded people.
What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?
We have a government and mainstream media under the control of the military-industrial-prison complex and a few hundred powerful and rich people who comprise the Deep State. They are real and too be feared.
The Deep State relentlessly promotes racial, religious, and social issues to divide, control and conquer us. The Republican and Democratic Parties along with the Corporate Media have become the Deep State tools to subvert us. Only when we understand this will we have a chance to unite and slay this demon that would willingly destroy us and the world for power and wealth.
With the Corporate Media long censoring opposing viewpoints of the government narrative on important issues, now we are seeing massive flagrant censorship in social media platforms at a level only seen in the most authoritative of governments.
I will be a bullhorn exposing the corruption in Congress, all our government agencies and in the corporate world!
Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?
It would be especially great if the elections were 100% publicly financed, so that representatives didn’t have to always find it necessary to be fund raising! Representatives could then be devoted 100% to doing the people’s business and run for reelection on the issues instead of raising money for self-serving promotions.
I will never accept campaign donations from corporations. I will only accept donations from individuals! If elected, I don’t intend to spend much time fundraising as I will let my actions and bullhorn on the issues speak for me!
What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?
I believe someone elected must keep in touch with his/her constituents. I believe one must keep their constituents informed about the issues of the day and what is happening in congress. I believe one must be attentive to the problems of constituents and determine if future legislation might be necessary or just guidance dealing with government bureaucracy. I believe one should not be afraid to speak out on controversial issues in fear of losing votes. I believe that one should listen to all sides, work toward compromise, but in the end be as decisive as possible about solutions that will benefit one’s constituents, people in general, our society and the world as a whole!
As there are many lobbyists vying for one’s attention especially from monied special interests, I believe that one should engage with representatives of all sides of an issue. I believe that a Representative should actively seek out those individuals and organizations of possible different views on issues. One should always seek the advice of trusted experts concerning issues and events.
I believe one should use his bullhorn when addressing important and especially controversial issues.
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My 2022 Congressional Campaign
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