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| Job History: |
 | Occupation: Architect - Private Practitioner:
• Responsible for project budget determination, analysis and adherence. All projects have been profitable and delivered on-time.
• Master of Architecture, Texas A&M University with an Outpatient Healthcare Facility thesis.
• Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design, University of Washington.
• Pioneered a mix of services which defined Diagnostic and Treatment Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Medical Centers with MRI Facilities as a new building type. Employed innovative day-lighting techniques integral to the building design. Jack's work has included religious campus planning and revitalization of existing commercial centers to foster pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented, mixed use sustainable urban environments
• Testified as expert witness in forensic consultations.
• Taught at Woodbury University, contributes to professional journal articles and has been listed in the Who's Who Registry.
• Featured panelist on "Healthcare Interiors that Work" at the Pacific Design Center's Healthcare Forum in Los Angeles in 1987.
• Exhibitor of the Aspen Medical Center at Association of Western Hospitals Convention in Anaheim California in 1986.
• Consultant to Veterans Administration, developed 250,000 square foot Sepulveda California VA Outpatient Diagnostic and Surgery Center concepts into preliminary and design development physical modeling presentations. Defined and input comprehensive parameters into a successful run of a Texas A & M University computer energy audit in 1980.
• Evaluated a major computer complex (from a building envelope perspective) in a premiere application of the State of California 1st Generation Energy Standards in 1978.
Social Justice and Community Activism:
• Candidate for Pacifica's foundation radio station KPFK Listener-Sponsor Board in 2007.
• Participant, May 2006 Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley Immigration Rallies.
• Elected Member, Green Party Los Angeles County Council; Senate District 20 2006-2008 (Northeast San Fernando Valley)
• Participant in rallies and demonstrations for the impeachment of the Bush regime.
• Participant in San Fernando Valley-based vigil demonstrations against the US war in Iraq.
• Co-organizer, Media event to increase public awareness of the detrimental community impact of long-vacant, blighted, building code-compromised 13 story Panorama Towers.
• Participant, "Conflict Resolution Training-Mending Human Relations" sponsored by L.A. City Human Relations Commission, National Conference for Community and Justice.
• Co-author and presenter, award-winning Panorama City Urban Design Assistance Team Study for developing of a sustainable historic commercial area in cooperation with the Los Angeles City Council and Planning Department.
• Coro Southern California Neighborhood Leadership Development Program Graduate, 2003
• Served as an initiator of the Panorama City and Valley Glen Neighborhood Council formations.
• Active member in the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council.
• Candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party for the 24th US Congressional Seat in 1992.
• Organizer of San Fernando Valley-based weekly vigil demonstrations against the US-led Iraq invasion in 1991.
• Organizer of 'Censorship in Corporate Media' on-site demonstrations against local media outlets of corporate-owned ABC, CBS, and NBC initiated during the media spin build-up to Gulf War I in 1991.
• Candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party for the 42nd California Assembly Seat in 1990.
Environmental Activism:
• Workshop participant/presenter of Los Angeles Citywide General Plan Framework for the Van Nuys-North Sherman Oaks District.
• Featured in California Centers Magazine as an advocate for compact shopping and business environs along the 16-mile Ventura Boulevard Corridor.
• Workshop participant of Paolo Soleri's energy-efficient, sustainable city (arcology) prototype in Arizona.
• Co-presenter on "Artist-Owned Live/Work Space as Catalyst for Central Business District Recovery."
• Featured speaker representing the advocacy group 'Fans of the Sepulveda Basin' at US Army Corps of Engineers Hearings on saving the Sepulveda Dam Basin Wilderness Area in 1992.
• Featured speaker at Amgen Headquarter on holding Big Tobacco financially accountable for runaway health care costs associated with smoking in 1992.
• Featured speaker at Los Angeles Valley College's Earth Day Event in 1991.
• Organizer, Low-cost Jitney Service for the San Fernando Valley in 1990. |
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| Important Issues: |
| Top Priorities:
*Stop Global Warming* - Deployment of strategies and tactics to reduce and cope with climate change.
*Single-Payer Health Care* - Guaranteed quality single payer healthcare for all.
*Clean Money* - Banning of all corporatist lobbying and campaign spending.
*100% Amnesty* - Human Dignity and full Immigration rights for all.
Survival of human species is in the balance.
I will bring the Ten Key Values to the California State Legislature in Sacramento, California.
The Green Party's Ten Key Values which form our party's political framework should be reflected in our society's politics, everyday day life and our inter-personal relationships. Without these ethical and moral imperatives at play, the existing political landscape remains dominated by the greed, corporatist, militarist and fraud-based nature of the duopoly party of Democrats and Republicans. This reality has led human culture on earth to the brink of self-annihilation. If we as a human species are to survive as a culture, current political decision-making must be transcended with a commonly-held harmonic convergence to our Green Party's Four Pillars and Ten Key Values.
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| Why Vote For Me: |
| Once elected, I will remain a Green, supporting and advancing legislation to reduce and cope with global warming's economic, political, social and environmental effects, to see a transition to a green-collar economy and to promote sustainable living.
People before profits. Power to the people.
My election to the Assembly will empower all constituents of the 39th District with direct stakeholding and representation in Sacramento over the oppressive and burdensome private moneyed interests who currently hold sway in the legislative agenda.
Against the dire backdrop of what scientists are saying that humanity has until 2010 to stop unchecked global warming "before it's too late" to avoid catastrophic effects to the health and economy of humankind, I am seeking to be elected to the California State Assembly.
California's Assembly legislates for a state that (if considered a nation) would be the world's sixth-largest economy and a similarly-ranked contributer to global greenhouse gases.
The current Democrat officeholder in a mostly Latino working class district is not reflecting the urgency required of political leadership to transform our wasteful, consumptive society from pending extinction to sustainability that both Democrats and Republicans refuse to address in realistic measures.
My architecture firm and my legislative agenda once I'm elected to the California state assembly share the same goal: To require all new construction and remodeling to meet the 2030 target of a graduated reduction of fossil fuel usage to zero by implementing innovative sustainable design and tax strategies, encouraging transit-oriented mixed-use development, generating on-site renewable power and/or certified renewable energy credits. The overall objective is to 'get off the grid' by achieving net-zero-energy performance.
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I am running as a Green for State Assembly.