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C. T. Weber of Sacramento is currently the State Chair (2010-2012) of the Peace & Freedom Party and is running for Lieutenant Governor of California on the Peace and Freedom Party slate. Download a copy of C.T. Weber's Candidate Platform Flyer The Lieutenant Governor chairs the Economic Development Commission, is a member of the State Lands Commission and sits on the University of California Board of Regents and the California State Universities Board of Trustees. "As chair of the Economic Development Commission I would advocate and vote for the preservation of social programs, cuts to the prison system, and shifting the burden of taxation to those who get wealthy off the system; as a State Lands Commissioner I would advocate and vote against offshore oil drilling; and as a member of the boards of the California university systems I would advocate and vote to reduce student fees". C. T. Weber is endorsed by: The Northern California Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation
NEWS - Arizona SB 1070 & Immigration Policy - Read what the Candidate has to say (click here)The major issue facing us today is to have an open, fair and comprehensive immigration policy. Because of the failure of the federal government to implement such a program a major void has developed. (Read More)
C.T. Weber - Peace & Freedom Party candidate - Lieutenant Governor The two major goals of the campaign are (1) to solve the budget crisis and (2) to institute electoral reforms that will result in better and fairer Representation.Proportional representation (PR), clean & equal public funding, and to a lesser extent(Wikipedia definition), Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) for executive positions, U.S. Senate and special elections.
Here are two critical steps to fixing what is broken: 1. Currently we have public funding of campaigns, however, it is funneled through private businesses which charge a little more to give to the candidates and causes of their choice. If our hard earned money is going to fund political campaigns, we should have control over where it goes. Establish public financing for elections. As a rule, elected officials are beholden to whomever pays their campaign bills. If we want our council members beholden to voters, and not to deep-pocketed donors, the public must be willing to pick up the tab. Too expensive? Unfortunately, it is a case of "Pay now or pay later" and failing to pay for campaigns up front will cost the public many times more in special favors and other quid pro quo after the election. The U.S. Congress is the best example of this problem. Lack of public financing also gives a huge advantage to wealthy, well-connected candidates over those who simply have great ideas and enthusiasm and not enough money to raise public awareness. 2. Replace plurality elections with proportional representation (PR). The idea behind proportional representation is that groups should win seats in roughly the same percentage as the votes they received. That is, 60 percent of the vote gets you 60 percent of the seats, not all of them. And 20 percent of the vote gets you 20 percent of the seats, not none of them. Thus, in a city council election that was 60/40 Democrat/Republican, a five-seat council would ideally be comprised of three Democrats and two Republicans. How do we achieve PR? We could adopt Choice Voting on the local non-partisan levels, which like Instant Runoff Voting, has voters rank their candidates, and ensures little or no wasted votes. For the State Legislature the voters of each of the parties could arrange their lists in their direct primary elections and these list could then be presented to the general electorate in the general election. PR encourages more candidates to run for office, unlike our present system, in which similar candidates actually hurt each other's chances of winning by splitting the vote. John Cleese gives a brief explanation of PR in this video: See how the candidate answered important questions put to him by the SF for Democracy PAC-Click Here. See more video of other candidates and issues by clicking here: http://kgo2010.nextgenpols.com/ |
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