Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Marin/Sonoma Assembly Race:
I just learned of another candidate running for the State Assembly seat in our area. John Alden is the Chair of the Marin Democratic Central Committee. He seems to be a fiery Howard Dean supporter who is progressive but fiscally conservative. Sounds like a lot of us who were on the Dean bandwagon. In the recent past, he was a supporter of Measure B, which was a pretty popular measure. Measure B (passed with 61% yes vote) banned genetically modified food grown in Marin.
In terms of his fiscal policy, he’s right on when he says that the Republicans’ desire to cut taxes but then spend like crazy is a bad, bad idea for our country. Socially liberal, Alden would stand up for marriage equality and the protection of our civil liberties (it’s not too hard to hate the Patriot Act these days!). In the past, Alden has supported Carole Migden’s efforts to eliminate discrimination against same-sex partners in property taxation as well as supported efforts by Mark Leno and others to achieve marriage equality in California.
It seems like this race for assembly is going to shape up to be a long one between a ton of candidates. Should be interesting to watch this one develop.
I just learned of another candidate running for the State Assembly seat in our area. John Alden is the Chair of the Marin Democratic Central Committee. He seems to be a fiery Howard Dean supporter who is progressive but fiscally conservative. Sounds like a lot of us who were on the Dean bandwagon. In the recent past, he was a supporter of Measure B, which was a pretty popular measure. Measure B (passed with 61% yes vote) banned genetically modified food grown in Marin.
In terms of his fiscal policy, he’s right on when he says that the Republicans’ desire to cut taxes but then spend like crazy is a bad, bad idea for our country. Socially liberal, Alden would stand up for marriage equality and the protection of our civil liberties (it’s not too hard to hate the Patriot Act these days!). In the past, Alden has supported Carole Migden’s efforts to eliminate discrimination against same-sex partners in property taxation as well as supported efforts by Mark Leno and others to achieve marriage equality in California.
It seems like this race for assembly is going to shape up to be a long one between a ton of candidates. Should be interesting to watch this one develop.
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I looked up some of the other people who are running in this race and one of the candidates who seems to have good name recognition - Cynthia Murray - doesn't seem to want to partake in the forums the other candidates are engaging in. For example, you can go to this website - http://www.representativevoter.org/candidates/index.htm - and download like 16 pages of information on all of the candidates....except Murray. What is she so scared of?
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