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A PROGRESSIVE VOTE FOR SUSAN DAVIS IS A PROGRESSIVE VOTE WASTED A LABOR VOTE FOR SUSAN DAVIS IS A LABOR VOTE WASTED I ran and am running against the extreme
anti-progressive Democrat Susan Davis in the 53d Congressional District. The Susan Davis who voted - against the International Criminal
Court; - against funding for the UN; - for giving GEORGE W. BUSH the Fast
Track blank check to negotiate trade agreements
with no enforceable labor or environment provisions; - for giving the estates of Bill
Gates, the Walton Family (Walmart), and other members of the Forbes 400
greediest Americans an estimated 00 billion dollar tax windfall by
removing the most progressive tax there is, the estate tax; - for the Patriot Act and was
especially behind its infamous immigration portion. As the 53d district is 43 percent
registered Democrats and 33 percent registered Republicans, for thinking
progressives, Susan Davis is clearly the greater evil. Her voting record is more
conservative than her Republican predecessor. Although she has received over $300,000 from labor,
Susan Davis and/or her representative have been conspicuously absent at
community rallies in support of the United Food and Commercial Workers
Union strike against Vons, Ralphs, and Albertsons. She is not a
progressive Democratic in the mold of Congressman Bob Filner and it would
be an injustice if she were to receive the same level of support from
labor and progressive activists. The Republicans did not invest heavily
to defeat her last re-election and they are not doing so this time
either. Almost half of her
million-dollar war chest went unspent in 2002. Realist Republicans realize that an anti-progressive
Susan Davis retaining her seat is their best bet for the 53d district,
one of the most demographically progressive districts in California. The only way we can get a
progressive in the 53d is to remove Susan Davis first. After her last election win,
Susan in running from demonstrators demanding to know her position of
CAFTA. LABOR
AGAIN REFUSED TO ENDORSE SUSUS DAVIS IN 2004 - Stop Unilateral / Preemptive Wars - Ratify the Kyoto Protocol - Ratify Land Mine Treaty - Enable Creation of Non-US Led
International Humanitarian (Anti-Genocide) Operations Command - Integrate International War Crimes
Provisions Into Enforceable Federal Law - Revoke the American War Crimes
Impunity Act (American Servicemembers Protection Act) Click Here - Ratify the Rome Treaty Establishing
the International Criminal Court (ICC) Click Here -
Ratify Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of Civilians
in war. No on the Drug War - End the Class / Race Biased
Consequences of a Failed Historical Experiment - National Penal Reform - Except for right
wing self-righteous hypocrites like Rush Limbaugh and a certain sitting
governor and sitting president, prisons are not the answer for substance
abuse. - The
politically ideological DEA is out of control. It does not respect our (CA’s) laws and intimidates
doctors into under- prescribing pian relief for patients in agony. Click Here No on the War on Immigrants - Normalize Our Borders / Stop Operation
Gatekeeper - Reform the Patriot Act / End
Indefinite Confinement
for Minor Visa Violations Yes on National Service /
National Service Benefits - Mandatory National Service with
Honorable Provisions for Conscientious Objectors - Consolidation and enforcement of
federal standards in state run veterans homes. - End Alcohol Prohibition Against Our
Servicemembers – Old enough to die and kill – old enough to have a
beer. - Mandatory Lifetime Education and
Healthcare Benefits for National Service Veterans and Disabled Citizens. - Repeal TITLE 10, (A-2/49 § 976)
Prohibition on Military Labor Organizations -
Reduce pay / billets for general / flag rank officers and increase pay
and benefits for Guard and Reserve. No on Corporate Free Trade /
Yes on Humane Fair Trade - Place Enforceable Labor, Human
Rights & Environmental
Justice Standards in All Trade Agreements - Provide Global Resource Compensation /
Not Global Indebtedness -
No on CAFTA Yes on a Fair Simple
Progressive Tax Policy - Restore Pre-Reagan Top Tax Rate (70%)
for Richest 1% - No Special Tax Benefit for Unearned
Income - Restore the Estate Tax / Stop Protecting the Children of Millionaires from Capitalism - Maintain Tax on Stock Dividends / Give Tax Breaks to Those Who Actually Earn Their Income
Learn About the American War Crimes Impunity Act (American Servicemembers Protection Act) and Article 98
Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIAs) |
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Endorsements by Candidate: *** Donna Frye
for Mayor ***
2004 Election
Results: Susan Davis
DEM 146449 66% Daren Hunzeker REP 63897 29% Lawrence Rockwood GRN 7523 4% A. Von
Susteren
LIB
3567 1.6% Citizens for a Better Vets Home
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Candidate
Party Affiliation: In 2004 I ran as the Green Party candidate
and supporter of democratic socialist candidate Peter Miguel Camejo for
president. I am a member of both
the Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) and the Socialist Party USA (SPUSA). 100 years ago, Eugene Debs called for
the creation of electoral party would generally represent the interests of
the working class. Since the end
of the Great Society in 1968, no such party has existed in the U.S. I am a member of what I believe is a
majority of both the PFP, which is on the ballot in California and no where
else, and SPUSA, which is on the ballot in many major states except
California) that support the creation of an democratic socialist electoral
party or alliance that cannot be dominated by any one sect, clique, or vanguard
group and that allows leftist organizations to compete in the battle of ideas
with each other in primary elections (as is the present electoral model for
the PFP). I am also a member of
other social democratic / democratic socialist organization to include: the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the General Defense Committee (GDC)
of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Although a committed third party
activist, I would never run against that rare exotic creature known as a
Democratic who represents the interest of the working class such as Bob Filner,
even though he supports giving billion dollars tax cuts to the likes of Bill
Gates in the middle of a war.
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Recent
Activism by Candidate:
Congressional Candidate serves on Delegation to Visit Haiti’s Political
Prisoners and Coup Victims The Haiti
Commission of Inquiry visited Haiti to look into the circumstances and
conditions of detention of political prisoners, including constitutional
Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, constitutional Interior Minister Jocelerme Privert
and singer activist Annette “So Anne” Auguste. Ramsey Clark led the a delegation of the New York-based
group which recently sent emissaries to the Central African Republic and the
Dominican Republic last March to investigate the coup. The Haiti Commission delegation also
included former U.S. Army Capt. Lawrence Rockwood. He was court-martialed in
1995 for defying his commanders and unilaterally acting to protect the lives
of prisoners in Haiti’s National Penitentiary a decade ago. The delegation visited
the National Penitentiary and the Pétionville jail, among other facilities.
They also met with victims of repression and the friends and relatives of
those who have disappeared or been killed since Feb. 29. Adapted from Haiti
Progres: http://www.haiti-progres.com/eng09-01.html,
01/09/04 |
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2004 Responses by Candidate: UCSD voter guide question for the 53rd District
Congressional Representative: What steps would you take to reduce student
debt, improve student services,
and make a university education accessible to all qualified students?” The real meltdown facing higher education has been the
imposition of a class system throughout American higher education. This is manifested by the lowered
presence of tenured faculty and a growing majority of working class temp and
adjunct faculty or the “McFaculty.”
It is also manifested by the loss of diversity on our campuses, by
recent court decisions placing the status of student assistants below that of
the McFaculty, and by the outsourcing of janitors and other support staff on
campuses across the country in a domestic race to the bottom in wages and
benefits. As more and more of
American academia is becoming the domain of the American economic elite, the
student body will soon be just as divided along class lines as their
faculty. I will fight this trend
and call it for what it is: A CLASS WAR. What is student debt? It is a class issue.
What is accessibility for all qualified students? Again, a class
issue! The problem is, they are
not isolated class issues. They are part of a national trend to undermine
economic justice in all areas of American life. What students can do is admit the loses of programs and
support are not just particular problems facing them in particular and that
asking self serving candidates and politicians to hold off one more cut for
one more fiscal cycle is not a viable answer, neither for the student
enrolling next year or the McFaculty teaching a more and more economically
exclusive student body. It is
time to join the wider class war that has engulfed our nation and we must
turn our campuses into battlegrounds. -----------From: Mark Engel. La JollaSubject: Your position on HR 2688 and HR 2702? I would not support any anti-immigration legislation at this time, as it would tend to reinforce the racist national sentiment fueling our ferocious inhuman war against illegal immigrants. Our borders will never defend us against the consequences of 2 billion human beings on this planet making less than two dollars a day. Like my father, I served in the military to bring down the moral monstrosity called the Berlin Wall. I am now devoted to bring down the moral monstrosity 25 miles to our south. Mark, I honestly do not think I am your candidate. ----------- From: Citizens for a Better Vets HomeSubject: What is your position on The Retired Pay Restoration Act, "Concurrent Disability Pay?” I will support any version that includes FULL payment of both retired pay and compensation to disabled military retireesthat also does not favor higher-ranking retirees.
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Pistols Question: Do you believe that the 2nd Amendment confers rights to
individuals or only to the Militia / Military? It does
not matter what I believe, the Second Amendment speaks of “the right of the
people to keep and bear arms” only in one solitary context, that of “a well
regulated militia.” We have not
based our national security on men in coonskin caps and muskets since the
1800s. The ranch boy who grew up
shooting is not a decisive factor in modern warefare. If you want to argue a modern right
to own a gun, fine. I agree in a
limited form. However, you are
being intellectually dishonest to argue that it has anything to do with the
Constitution. And if you are a
graduate of the 10th grade, you know it. ----------- Planned
Parenthood: Do you believe that
access to birth control and abortion are rights protected by the
Constitution? And how would your beliefs on that subject affect your judicial
nominations as president? Whether
you agree with it or not, ROE v. WADE was just not a legal ruling, it was an
ethical and historical argument that did more than argue for a so-called
libertine right of privacy; it also incorporated a complex argument of an
affirmative civil responsibility by acknowledging that this right, like all
other rights, is not unlimited.
It is as inefficacious to argue abortion with someone who has not read
the text of the ruling, as it is to argue gun control with someone who has
never read the text of the 2nd Amendment. I will defend ROE v. WADE in both its
spirit and letter; there is no other democratic alternative. Those who undermine global family
planning in the name of an abstinence only / anti-abortion agenda have more
unborn blood on their hands than anyone else. Read text of Roe v. Wade: Click Here |
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Bibliography: Captain Lawrence P. Rockwood II is a fourth-generation soldier
in the U.S. Army. He
joined the Army in 1977. His
military assignments include working with Hawk and Patriot ground to air missiles
as an Air Defense officer, involvement in anti-insurgency / anti-drug
operations in Central America as counter-intelligence intelligence officer,
and support of humanitarian operations in Somalia as a strategic intelligence
officer. After fifteen years of
military service, he was separated from the US Army because of his action as
a military intelligence officer. Concerned with human rights violations
occurring in the proximity of US forces in Haiti and perceiving what appeared
to him as indifference on the part of his command toward those suffering from
these violations, he conducted an unauthorized survey of the National
Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince for which he was later court-martialed. Since
his separation from of the service he as served as a Fellow for Center for
International Policy, a consultant for the Institute for Policy Studies, a
member of Amnesty International’s Military, Police, and Security Working
Group. While accepting speaking
engagements at numerous military forums on military ethics and human rights,
he is presently an adjunct professor in the history department at California
State University at San Marcos. He and his wife, Dr. Amelia Simpson, are
coauthors of a forthcoming book on human rights and military professionalism. |
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Contributions: In the 2004 general election, Susan Davis, with 66% of the vote,
defeated my campaign with 3.4 %.
Susan Davis, the only nationally funded candidate with over one
million dollars at her disposal, out raised my third party campaign by a
ratio 5-1 for each vote received.
Due to lack of credible resistance from the other major party, Davis
only spent one quarter of the funds available to her and goes into the next
election with a war chest of $536,490.
The lessons for the American Left is clear: (1) to be successful, we progressives must support the
candidates that represent our politics in the same manner that those to our
right do and (2) contributions to progressive candidates have a far far
greater impact, dollar for dollar.
However, we have to put our dollars where our mouths are! If those that supported my campaign
only gave an average donation of $10, we would have had a real contest of
ideas. Instead I received an
average seven cents. Is that how
much our politics is worth? The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 limits individual
contributions to congressional candidates to $2000. If sending a check by mail to the campaign, please include
all information requested below on donation webpage with check. I also would greatly appreciate donations after the elections to
help retire my campaign debt. |
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