Peace and Freedom Party Candidates, Voter Information Guide Statement

As posted at http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/:

Peace and Freedom Party Candidates

All of the Peace and Freedom candidates have pages on our campaign website. Most also have their own campaign websites (and more will have them soon). Links to both are provided here.

• Statewide Offices
  • Governor: Carlos Alvarez — Website — Campaign page
  • Lt. Governor: C.T. Weber — Website — Campaign page
  • Secretary of State: Marylou Cabral — Website — Campaign page
  • State Controller: Karen Martinez — Campaign page
  • State Treasurer: Debra L. Reiger — Website — Campaign page
  • Attorney General: Robert J. Evans — Campaign page
  • Insurance Commissioner: Dina Josephine Padilla — Website — Campaign page
• Board of Equalization
  • 1st District: Sherill Borg — Campaign page
  • 2nd District: Toby Mitchell-Sawyer — Campaign page
  • 3rd District: Mary Lou Finley — Campaign page
  • 4th District: Nancy Lawrence — Campaign page
• U.S. Senate: Marsha Feinland — Website — Campaign page
• U.S. House
  • 3rd District: Mike Roskey — Campaign page
  • 5th District: Gerald Allen “Jerry” Frink — Campaign page
  • 6th District: Eugene E. Ruyle — Website — Campaign page
  • 8th District: Gloria La Riva — Website — Campaign page
  • 9th District: Larry Allen — Campaign page
  • 30th District: Richard R. Castaldo — Website — Campaign page
  • 50th District: Miriam E. Clark — Campaign page
• State Senate
  • 6th District: Lanric “Ric” Hyland — Campaign page
  • 26th District: Cindy Varela Henderson — Website — Campaign page
• State Assembly
  • 4th District: Daniel D. Frederick — Website — Campaign page
  • 5th District: Elizabeth Martinez — Campaign page
  • 9th District: Daniel A. Costa — Campaign page
  • 10th District: Albert R. Troyer — Campaign page

Statewide Propositions

Here is a summary of our positions on the ten statewide propositions on the November 2, 2010 ballot. Note: we have taken positions on five of the ten, and will take positions on the rest at the July 31 state convention in San Francisco. Click on a proposition to see our analysis.

• Proposition 18: Water bonds – NO
• Proposition 19: Legalizes marijuana – YES
• Proposition 20: Congressional redistricting – under consideration
• Proposition 21: Vehicle license fee – under consideration
• Proposition 22: Transportation & local government funding – under consideration
• Proposition 23: Suspends pollution controls – NO
• Proposition 24: Repeals business tax breaks – YES
• Proposition 25: Majority vote on budgets – under consideration
• Proposition 26: Two-thirds vote on fees – NO
• Proposition 27: Repeals redistricting commission – under consideration

This is the Peace and Freedom Party’s statement in the 2010 statewide Voter Information Guide.

The Peace and Freedom Party is a working-class party in a country run by and for the wealthy and their corporations. We should not have to sacrifice our health, our livelihoods and our planet for our bosses’ profits. We can tax the rich, whose wealth is entirely created by workers, to pay for the people’s needs. We favor:

* Bringing all troops home now.
* Ending all discrimination.
* Full rights for immigrants.
* Free health care for everyone.
* Good services for disabled people.
* Restoring and protecting the environment.
* Real democracy and fair political representation.
* Free education for all from preschool through the university.
* Decent jobs and full labor rights for all.

As long as our system puts the wealthy first, we will suffer war, police brutality, low wages, unsafe workplaces and pollution. We advocate socialism, which we see as the ownership and democratic control of the economy by working people. If we join together to take back our industries and natural resources, we can work together democratically and cooperatively for the common good, rather than being slaves to the rich and their corporations.

Vote for those who speak up for your own needs, the candidates of the Peace and Freedom Party.