Running for Senate, 37th District

The 37th District covers quite a bit of territory, from Riverside to La Quinta and to Murrieta, Menifee, and the many communities in between. The desert communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and La Quinta have different perspectives than the more eastward communities of Riverside and its perimeter communities. However there are some common threads that tie us all together: the need to jump start the economy and revive jobs is the primary issue we can all agree is of critical importance. I intend, if elected, to do my best for all the residents of the 37th District, aside from localized interests which may be promoted in every way possible.

My background is not that of a professional politician. In fact, I am a novice. I consider my newness to the public political arena to be more of an asset than a liability. After all, the many who have been in office with hefty political backgrounds have led us to the mess we are in now, haven't they? Maybe it is time for an honest novice to speak up. I have lived for more than five decades of political changes. I lived through about ten presidential changes, from Eisenhower to the present, and have lived through the many scandals of both the government and corporations. Always I wondered "what about the people?", Who ever thinks about them? Who is going to help them when they suffer the consequences of bad government and bad corporate acts? 

In my young adult days, I served for three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, during the Vietnam years. I ended my service with the rank of Sargeant, in the position of Computer Operations Supervisor. I returned to the private sector, taking jobs as a keytape operator when discrimination closed jobs to me that I was qualified for. I turned to education as a path to developing my life. I used the GI Bill to pay for my first degree in Fine Arts, and earned a B.A. from California State University in San Bernardino. I continued to earn my Masters and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and a J.D. in Law, while teaching full time in public high schools for about twenty four years. I earned the tuition money through my work, and took no loans or handouts from anyone.

In 2005 the home I had built with myown money burned down in a brush fire. In 2006 I retired from teaching, sold my land, and put all the money into the stock market. As you might have guessed, it was all lost. So like many of you out there who have lost most or all of what you worked for over many years, so did I. I lost my last home to foreclosure and filed bankruptcy for the first time in my life. Now, at 63, I am overqualified and out of work. So, believe me when I say that I understand the serious situation the nation and California finds itself in now. Something must be done, and pretty quick. While our new President has the best intentions, it seems that the system, from Congress all the way down to local communities, is broken. What is needed is bold action, job creations, a renewal of American manufacturing, strengthening of resources for those who have little left with which to rebuild their lives, and a renewal of ethics, honesty and integrity. It is time to do what is right. These points are important to focus on:

Fixing the Economy
Creating Jobs Now
Grants for Small Business (not loans or tax credits)
Health Care for all, regardless of employment
A Flat Tax, ending the Income Tax
Term Limits at all levels
Nationalizing the fundamentals of life: (why should we pay until we die for the natural resources earth has given us for basic survival?):
           electricity, water, and gas for home use
           phone communications
           transportation systems
*** all of the above fundamentals are essential to life and should be available for all citizens without cost.. they belong to all of us, not to private corporations ***