Member, Assembly District 78 — Democratic Party County Central Committee
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Loxie Gant
- Hacer que los funcionarios electos y candidatos rindan...
- Usar mi voz para representar a todos los niños del...
- Luchar en contra de los intereses corporativos y puramente...
Kevin Lourens
- Protegiendo a nuestro Partido Demócrata: Al disminuir...
- Cambio cultural: Tenemos un Comité Central Democrático...
- Escuchando a las comunidades afectadas: Aunque esté...
Huy "Jean-Huy" Tran
- Aumentar el compromiso cívico en las comunidades asiaticoamericanas...
- Abogar por la reforma de justicia penal, justicia...
- Exigir transparencia y responsabilidad en nuestro...
William Rodriguez-Kennedy
- - Hacer Crecer la Comunidad en el Partido Demócrata...
- - Hacer Crecer la Confianza en el Partido Demócrata...
- - Hacer Crecer la Voz del Partido Demócrata del Condado...
Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi
- Pobreza e inequidad de ingresos
- Justicia social y equidad racial
- Justicia ambiental y los derechos de los animales
Bernadette M. Butkiewicz
- Prácticas reflexivas de prevención de la falta de...
- Implementación e integración de capacitación técnica...
- Desarrollo significativo que se ajuste al tejido de...
Chyann-Marie Cox
- Construir un Comité Central y un Partido del Condado...
- Priorizar el aumento de actividades para conectar...
- Aprobar una Plataforma del Partido del Condado de...
Jonathan "Cody" Petterson
- La protección de nuestro medio ambiente y la transición...
- Financiamiento completo y equitativo de escuelas públicas,...
- Inversión pública en viviendas asequibles, multifamiliares...
Pratima Gupta
- Asegurar que los problemas de salud y bienestar públicos...
- Atender la necesidad de un marco de justicia social...
- Mejoramiento del transporte público y las ciclovías...
Codi Vierra
- Mejorar el Partido Demócrata a través de reformas...
- Trabajar para promover la transparencia, la rendición...
- Promover candidatos y una legislación que apoyen los...
Gretchen Newsom
- Apoyar políticas para buenos empleos locales con salario...
- Combatir el cambio climático con resiliencia comunitaria...
- Crear un Partido que sea más receptivo y empoderador
Cynara Kidwell
- Hacer que el Partido Demócrata sea lo más inclusivo,...
- Programas del partido para atraer, educar y fortalecer...
- Iniciativas del partido para identificar, ayudar,...
Bryan Pease
- Vivienda y falta de vivienda
- Crisis climática y medio ambiente
- Justicia social y económica
Wendy Levy Batterson
- Crear plataformas proactivas y ganadoras para nuestro...
- Defenderé a las familias trabajadoras, los salarios...
- Trabajar a favor de la unidad, equidad, inclusión...
Becca Taylor
- Respaldar a los candidatos que lucharán por la justicia...
- Abogar en nombre de los adultos mayores, los veteranos,...
- Inscribir a las personas para votar no sirve de nada...
Oren Robinson
- Responderé a todos los residentes, no solo a los votantes
- Haré que unirse y servir en el partido sea fácil
- "Pasaré el micrófono" a los activistas de base
Rick Bates
- Defender y apoyar el respaldo de candidatos y medidas...
- Apoyar políticas e iniciativas que promuevan e inviertan...
- Crear un Partido que promueva las actividades para...
Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Hacer que los funcionarios electos y candidatos rindan cuentas.
- Usar mi voz para representar a todos los niños del condado que no tienen una voz
- Luchar en contra de los intereses corporativos y puramente capitalistas
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Loxie is a proud coastal San Diego native who has now set down roots with her own family- her husband and 4 year old daughter in her home town of Pacific Beach. She is a graduate of La Jolla High and San Diego State University. You might recognize her from her time working for local sports teams- first as a member of the San Diego Padres Pad Squad, in-game host for Petco Park and then for the San Diego Gulls. Her life took a change when she became a mom in 2015 and she decided to dedicate her life to the prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences and be a voice to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens.
Loxie is a leader in the world of Institutional Child Abuse reform. She brings to the table a unique outlook by being a child victim turned survivor, activist and expert in the field. The injustices she saw seeking justice for her own case led to the revelation that there was still so much work to be done on the ground and inside our governmental systems to prevent and respond to Child Abuse.
Loxie works closely with Child Advocacy Centers, Law Enforcement, District Attorneys, Child Welfare Services, County Health and Human Services and other governmental agencies nationwide as an advocate and trusted advisor for policy and procedural reform.
Loxie was named as 2017 Voice of the Year and the article about her whistleblowing coverage began what is now known as the Education Sexual Misconduct series at Voice of San Diego and is the recipients of many awards for its excellence in journalism.
In terms of her activism and work governmentally- Loxie is listed as the victim inspiration behind AB218 for Child Abuse Statute of Limitations extension signed into law in 2019, and the citizen sponsor of AB989. Loxie acutally used the power of Central Committee to create a dialogue with San Diego Unified in order to create the Multi-Agency Task Force for the Protection of District Students.
Through her advocacy, she worked with County leaders to edit the San Diego County Child Victim Witness Protocol to be compliant with an Institutional lens for prevention and response. She is also helping as the legislative chair for the California Democratic Party Children’s Caucus and in the beginning stages of creating a Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences Commission at the City of San Diego. Loxie also donates her time as a victim advocate to parents struggling to get justice for their children after abuse.
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Central Committee is the governing body of the County Democratic Party as defined in the California Government Code and Elections Code. It is comprised of local Democrats elected by voters in each Assembly District during Presidential Election years, as well as partisan-level Democratic elected officials and nominees. This group conducts the County Party's general business, approves its budget, coordinates Democratic campaign activity, and endorses candidates for local offices. (sddemocrats.org)
Why is it Important?Central Committee serves a vital function in our democracy by being a microcosm of our local community where dedicated individuals can keep us moving forward by holding elected officials accountable to our ideals and insuring follow through with their campaign promises and conduct as an elected official.
Why Loxie?Loxie, although not a current member of the Central Committee, is commonly present to use her voice to speak truth to power. As someone vehemently adamant about the rights of children and women to be free from abuse or violence- Loxie has been an active member of the San Diego activist circles by serving as a whistleblower, child advocate, and being a voice to children facing adversity across our county. Although known mostly for her work with children’s causes- Loxie is also active in immigration issues, humanitarian crises, and racial justice.
Where do I vote?
On your March 3rd, 2020 Primary Ballot, as a registered member of the Democratic Party you will have a Dem specific portion of your ballot where you will select your preferred candidate for the Presidency and right below that will be the ballot portion for Central Committee. Your ballot will tell you that you can select up to 6 candidates, but you are able to select just one candidate.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Protegiendo a nuestro Partido Demócrata: Al disminuir el conflicto de intereses con los desarrolladores, las empresas consultoras y el personal de campaña dentro del Comité Central Democrático al trabajar para ordenar la recusación de aquellos en conflicto.
- Cambio cultural: Tenemos un Comité Central Democrático que no toma en serio las crisis de la vivienda y la falta de vivienda. Esto se refleja en sus respaldos, y planeo ser una voz que haga que el control de alquileres y la vivienda asequible sean prioridades.
- Escuchando a las comunidades afectadas: Aunque esté funcionando, diversas comunidades afectadas por la aplicación de la ley irresponsable o vecindarios más blancos afectados por malas decisiones de uso de la tierra, nuestro Comité Central debe atender sus preocupaciones y actuar en consecuencia.
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- Will Rodriguez-Kennedy - Chair, San Diego County Democratic Party & President, California Young Democrats
- Tommy Hough - Former President, San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action
- Katherine Hogue - Former President, San Diego Progressive Democratic Club
Funcionarios electos (1)
- Susan Peinado - President, Democratic Woman's Club & California Democratic Party Executive Board, 78th Assembly District
Individuos (1)
- John Loughlin - Director of Clubs, San Diego County Democratic Party
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Preguntas de The League of Women Voters San Diego (LWVSD) and the League of Women Voters of North County San Diego (LWVNCSD) (3)
As a campaign organizer, my schedule tends to be fairly flexible and within my control. There are two mandatory meetings as a Central Committee member to attend per month: the full Central Committee, and my Area Caucus which would be the Metro-West. The Central Committee is divided into four Area Caucuses: North, South, East, and Metro-West. Each meeting can range from an hour to five depending on the time of year and agenda. I am fully prepared to meet these minimal requirements.
The next requirement is the annual Convention with the California Democratic Party (CDP) which each Democratic Central Committee member is expected to attend as they also tend to be state party delegates per our bylaws. I have already been fulfilling this role as an elected Assembly District Delegate for the past three years, and I have both the time and the means to continue doing so.
There are optional ways which I can contribute further to the position by serving on Standing Committees for both the California and San Diego County Democratic Parties. For the CDP this would require attendance at quarterly Executive Board meetings, including the annual Convention where these Committees meet and conduct business. I have been attending these quarterly meetings already as Treasurer of the CDP Progressive Caucus and Legislative Director of the California Young Democrats’ Progressive Caucus. For the San Diego County Democratic Party this would require attendance at monthly meetings, as well as hours spent in-between working both remotely and in person with other members on projects. This could be platform amendments on the Platform Committee, dealing with complaints and ethics violations on the Ethics Committee, etc.
Finally, there are the hours throughout each month I could choose to spend working on personal projects such as resolutions, bylaw amendments, platform amendments and organizing for upcoming votes among the Central Committee members.
As aforementioned, I have experience already managing time commitment for the minimal responsibilities, and am prepared to commit further to my role.
What is the most significant challenge facing this party in the next decade, and if you are elected, how will you help the party prepare to meet it?
What public figures, past and present, do you believe have given the most postive examples of what this party stands for? Please explain your reasons for thinking so.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Aumentar el compromiso cívico en las comunidades asiaticoamericanas a través de la educación electoral y mayor representación asiaticoamericana en el gobierno
- Abogar por la reforma de justicia penal, justicia y equidad social y racial, estabilización de los alquileres, falta de vivienda y vivienda asequible
- Exigir transparencia y responsabilidad en nuestro gobierno, así como que el dinero quede fuera de las elecciones políticas y elecciones limpias.
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I am a Vietnamese immigrant who migrated to US in 1990. I graduated from UCLA and was the first in my family to earn a college degree. With a background in the accounting field for over 20 years, I currently serve as Controller for a private company with multi-state branches.
Outside of work, I have been a volunteer community organizer working with many different organizations, including Indivisible SD Persist, Viet Vote, the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Democratic Club, San Diego Progressive Democratic Club, and We The People San Diego. My volunteer work focuses mainly on the issues of Criminal Justice Reform, Racial Justice, Income Inequality, Social Equity, Rent Stabilization, Voter Education, Affordable Housing and other issues affecting the homeless population. I have worked to successfully make change at the local government level as well as in State legislation.
Currently, I am devoting most of my attention to increase more AAPI voting and civic engagement on issues that are important to AAPI communities. Recognizing the lack of AAPI representation in our government, I also want to create a stronger AAPI political network to provide support for progressive AAPI candidates running for office.
I also serve on the steering committee of the TRUST SD Coalition - a coalition of over 30 community groups organizing around the issue of Mass Surveillance Technology. Trust SD works to increase awareness of surveillance technology currently being used, how that technology affects the public, and advocates for more transparency in our government and creation and adoption of a surveillance technology oversight policy.
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- San Diego Democrats for Equality
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Preguntas de The League of Women Voters San Diego (LWVSD) and the League of Women Voters of North County San Diego (LWVNCSD) (3)
I admire the Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber a lot while working to push for her bill AB392 (Peace Officers: Deadly Force) to increase more police accountabily against their use of deadly force against POC community. I watched her remained true to her integrity & moral values, standing firm on what she believed is right for her community.
I also admire the Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher for her work to bring more economic justice with the power of labor union to leverage more pay increases for workers. The same work body also ensure more gender economic justice for women labor as well. But what I admire most about her is her frankness, accessibility to constituents & always address the issue head-on, even in the most controversial bills.
These two women are strong & never shy away from difficult conversations are what I believe in the Democratic party, and where it stands. Our fights to bring economic, social & racial justice for the oppressed are never easy, but these leaders stand firm, unapologetic of those fights which brings me hope.
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I believe in many progressive ideas because these changes we need to bring social, economic, gender & racial justice & equity to the underserved & oppressed. We are living in a society where Black folks are subjected to police brutality & deadly force & racial profiling & mass incarceration, a society where voting rights are suppressed, a society where women are paid less than men, a society where POC are not represented enough & not having a seat at the table where policies are discussed, a society where healthcare is not accessible or affordable to all, a society where income inequality is so great that the working class are vulnerable to become homelessness, and a society where the 1% & corporations are not paying their fair share of taxes & contribution, a society where our environment are constantly being damaged by human's reckless & abuse, and a society where our immigrants are degraded as second citizens without rights & children are separated from their parents & locked up in cages.
I believe in Medicare for All, Green New Deal & Climate Change emergency to raise awareness for better policies that will help us to protect our environment, Voting Rights for folks who have done their time, Equal Pay for women, Rent Stabilization to help poor folks allowing them to keep a roof over them for shelter. I will continue to advocate for policies that will not criminalize our Homeless folks & treat them with humanity & compassion, policies that protects & supports immigrants & refugees as we are all immigrants, laws that will decriminalize poor & Black & POC folks against mass incarceration, and bills that will require the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes & contribution to this society.
But most of all, I am advocating most for a transparency in our government as well as clean election & politics. We cannot expect to take corporate's money & donations, and not feeling the pressure of those lobby interest in shaping policies with progressive values. If we are to build a trust again with the people for our government, we will need to take these notion of transparency & corporate-free with seriousness, and a clean election process to encourage the public to participate in a true democracy.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- - Hacer Crecer la Comunidad en el Partido Demócrata del Condado de San Diego: Ampliando nuestros esfuerzos de Participación Comunitaria y abordando los conflictos de maneras más sanas y productivas
- - Hacer Crecer la Confianza en el Partido Demócrata del Condado de San Diego: Reformando nuestras reglas para evitar conflictos de interés, construyendo más transparencia y cambiando el enfoque a la participación comunitaria, las políticas y eligiendo a Demócratas
- - Hacer Crecer la Voz del Partido Demócrata del Condado de San Diego: Participando desde nuestros valores, eligiendo a buenos Demócratas y comprometiéndonos con las políticas y trabajando para construir un San Diego más sostenible y equitativo para todos.
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Will Rodriguez-Kennedy is the Chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party. An award winning former reporter, activist and veteran of the United States Marine Corps he has over a decade of combined military and community service.
Born in the South Bronx, one of the poorest communities in the country. Will escaped poverty by joining the United States Marine Corps. The son of bank teller (who became a police officer) and a janitor, Will is of Puerto Rican descent and is mixed race (Latino / Black). He is a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
In 2008, Will was honorably discharged from the military under the unconstitutional “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. After fighting out of homelessness, he made international headlines in his fight against the policy specifically being among the first to attempt to reenlist when it was ruled unconstitutional in 2010.
Since then he has been active in local politics. Among his awards he was named Veteran of the Year for the 77th Assembly District in 2009, he was voted Outstanding Community Activist at the Nicky Awards in 2011, received a San Diego Press Club award for his coverage of government and politics in a non-daily newspaper, San Diego LGBT Weekly and was inducted into the San Diego LGBT Community Center's Benjamin Dillingham and Bridget Wilson Veteran's Wall of Honor in 2013.
Will is a graduate of the inaugural class of the Young Professional Council’s leadership academy, a program of the San Diego LGBT Community Center and is currently a communications major.
Will served on the board of directors of San Diego LGBT Pride from 2010 to 2013 and as an officer of the board from 2011-2013. He also served as a member of the San Diego County Veteran's Advisory Council from 2010 - 2016.
He currently serves as President of the California Young Democrats and as an Executive Board Member, Platform Committee Member of the California Democratic Party.
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Preguntas de The League of Women Voters San Diego (LWVSD) and the League of Women Voters of North County San Diego (LWVNCSD) (3)
I currently serve as the Chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party. I have only missed one meeting in my 8 years of service on the committee (I had the flu) and I put in between 10 - 20 hours of work in the office every week. If elected, I do intend to run for re-election as chair and I will continue to dedicate my time and effort to the committee moving forward into the next term and beyond. I am a passionate activist, who lives and breathes the struggle for social, economic, racial and reproductive justice and I see this position as an opportunity to help build a more equitable, sustainable and prosperous region for all.
As the San Diego County Democratic Party becomes more prominent many of the conflicts ahead of us will be Democrat vs. Democrat in addition to Democrat vs Republican. That means allies and friends may find eachother on opposing campaigns and will have to come together in the general election or after the election. As chair, I have established an Ethics committee which provides a process to resolve conflicts and address divisive and unethical behavior. I have also worked to establish a model for building greater unity which was covered in the Voice of San Diego recently. Myself, in partnership with County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher and Executive Secretary-Treasurer Keith Maddox at the Labor Council have organized a community breakfast where both Democrats who fighting a contentious primary and their teams have committed to come together and support whoever makes it out of the primary.
Should I be elected, I will continue to strengthen our process so that our members and communities feel heard and that we remain a strong and unified Democratic Party.
What public figures, past and present, do you believe have given the most postive examples of what this party stands for? Please explain your reasons for thinking so.
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Will Rodriguez-Kennedy is a Progressive Democrat and has dedicated his life to the intersectional fight for social, racial, reproductive and economic justice.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Pobreza e inequidad de ingresos
- Justicia social y equidad racial
- Justicia ambiental y los derechos de los animales
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Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi is a poverty attorney and a Commissioner on the San Diego County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.
As an immigrant herself, Parisa actively represents immigrants, communities of color, and low-income families in civil rights, race equity, and affordable housing cases on a pro bono basis. The State Bar of California has awarded her the Wiley W. Manuel Award and the Distinguished Service Award for her pro bono work.
In 2019, Parisa served as a delegate at the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women in New York City, on behalf the UNA-USA San Diego and the National Association of Women Judges. Parisa's pro bono work also includes work with homeless veterans at Stand Down, and with incarcerated women at Las Colinas Detention Facility.
Parisa serves as the Assistant Director of Public Service at University of San Diego Law, where she serves as an advisor to the next generation of social justice attorneys to help launch their public interest careers, directs the law school’s Pro Bono Program, and teaches a Poverty Law course to upper-level law students. She serves as an advisor to the law school’s NLG chapter and Student Animal Legal Defense Fund chapter. She also serves on Equal Justice Works’ National Advisory Committee.
She serves as a Commissioner on the San Diego County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. She is a Vice Chair of the Commission and serves as Chair of the CEDAW Committee, focused on the UN's International Treaty (the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women).
From 2014 to 2017, she served as San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program’s Pro Bono Manager and Supervising Attorney, where she oversaw civil legal services for homeless veterans and persons with HIV/AIDS, and supervised attorneys on cases involving public benefits, health law, disability discrimination, and affordable housing.
Prior to that, she served as a Staff Attorney and then a Managing Attorney for Legal Services of Northern California in Sacramento, where she practiced poverty law, representing low-income families in eviction and public benefits cases, and served on the California Elder Justice Coalition to address and advise on elder abuse legislation. She started her poverty law career in 2010 under funding from President Obama's Recovery and Reinvestment Act through which she represented low-income families in eviction and public benefit cases in rural Mendocino County, and organized the first of now-annual naturalization workshops for low-income immigrants.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Prácticas reflexivas de prevención de la falta de vivienda en todo el condado.
- Implementación e integración de capacitación técnica profesional en nuestras escuelas públicas.
- Desarrollo significativo que se ajuste al tejido de nuestras comunidades únicas.
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Bernadette is a native San Diegan and grew up in the labor movement, shouting her first bad word on a UNITE HERE Local 30 picket line at the Hotel Del Coronado at age 5, “Hotel Del Cheap as Hell!” Dedicated to the betterment of her community, she went on to complete CPI’s Students for Economic Justice Fellowship Program in 2014 while pursuing her undergraduate studies. Bernadette graduated with a bachelor’s in Political Science from Sonoma State University where she served all four years in the Associated Student Body, lobbying both at the state and local level on issues faced by students following the Great Recession.
In her current role as Political Organizer for the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local #230, she advocates for apprenticeship and training opportunities that create pathways to middle class careers. Since joining her union, she has doubled the women membership in her local by focusing not only on recruitment, but also retention of women in the trade. Bernadette implemented Sisters in Solidarity and an active Political Education Committee dedicated to electing pro-worker allies to local office.
Bernadette was a founding member of San Diego Coalition of Labor Union Women and served as the club’s President in the 2017-2018 term. During her tenure, she focused on educational and leadership development programs that supported women to take on positions of power in their local union. Bernadette has also overseen $4.9 billion worth of projects in her role as Chair of the Construction Sub-Committee for the San Diego Unified Bond Oversight Committee, advocating for equitable and just development throughout the city of San Diego.
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San Diego County Democrat Central Committee is important because we conduct interviews of elected-office candidates and ballot measures and vote to endorse those that will best serve Democrats like you. I’ve served as an alternate member of the Committee for three years and if elected this year, I will be sure to put focus on important issues in our community: Thoughtful, county-wide homelessness prevention practices, career technical training in our public schools, and meaningful development that fits within the fabric of our unique communities. The choices for Central Committee will be below U.S. President on the ballot. A maximum of six selections for Central Committee are allowed and anymore than six will invalidate your selections in this section. Be sure to not over-vote and please do not skip this section. See you on the ballot!
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Construir un Comité Central y un Partido del Condado más diversos e inclusivos.
- Priorizar el aumento de actividades para conectar con el votante y la educación pública del Partido del Condado y sus operaciones.
- Aprobar una Plataforma del Partido del Condado de San Diego.
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I was born and raised in Oceanside and am going on two years living in San Diego proper. During this time, I've lived in the communities of North Park and Talmadge and have now settled down with my family in University Heights. I'm a recent graduate of CSU San Marcos, having earned my Bachelor's degree in Political Science. Professionally, I've worked on several campaigns over the past two years ranging from City Council races to Presidential campaigns. I'm now transitioning to the field of education, where I plan to teach high school government and civics. I'm the proud mother of a young son, who's a kindergarten student at Alice Birney Elementary. I currently serve on the Central Committee as an Associate Member and co-chair of the Platform Committee. I'm the founder and President of the San Diego Vegan Democrats and former President of the CSUSM College Democrats.
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Preguntas de The League of Women Voters San Diego (LWVSD) and the League of Women Voters of North County San Diego (LWVNCSD) (3)
The most significant challenge facing the Party is the inability to adapt and its resistance to change. With the many crises we face at local, state, national, and global levels, immediate change is needed at every level. My part in helping the Party face this challenge will be advocating for the changes that need to be made and creating a space for the hard conversations we'll need to start having in the years to come.
I think Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are our most positive examples today of what this Party stands for. They advocate for a just economy that guarentees economic rights to all people, a culture of compassion that seeks restoritve justice, and the rejection of all forms of bigotry which seek to sow discord. I believe in following the example set by Bernie, who seeks to bring regular working people back to the Democratic Party to build a multi-generational, multi-racial, and multi-gendered coalition. Other public figures I greatly admire in this regard include Ro Khanna, Nina Turner, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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My political philosophy is rooted in the inherent equality of all people, equity, and restortive than punitive justice. I highly value direct democracy and participation in the political process. I believe in a just economy in which there is no homelessness, poverty, or hunger and believe we are fully capable of acheiving this. I consider myself anti-capitialist, anti-imperialist, an intersectional feminist, a Progressive Democrat, and a Democratic Socialist.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- La protección de nuestro medio ambiente y la transición inmediata de combustibles fósiles a energía renovable.
- Financiamiento completo y equitativo de escuelas públicas, con preescolar universal y la adopción del modelo de Universidades Comunitarias.
- Inversión pública en viviendas asequibles, multifamiliares y de fácil acceso al transporte.
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I was born and raised in La Jolla, California. I spent my youth swimming, reading, and hiking. San Diego was sprawling into its remaining valleys, canyons, hills, and mesas, and many of the places I looked for lizards or tadpoles are now malls or office complexes. In 2003, the Cedar Fire burnt nearly every tree in the 26,000 acre Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, where I grew up hiking. A lot of my feelings and thoughts about nature and conservation are rooted in this experience of loving threatened or disappearing places.
I attended UC Berkeley, where I received a BA in English, then built a bed in the back of the family car and convinced my dad to drive from San Diego to Ushuaia, Argentina with me. Back home, I flew out to DC for a stint as a White House Intern for Bill Clinton, working for the National Economic Council and its Climate Change Task Force in the run up to Kyoto. I then did an MFA in Creative Writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. I spent the next seven years in a doctoral program in UCSD’s Anthropology Department. My dissertation work was in land use, municipal politics, and ethnic conflict in Peru’s southern highlands. Upon receiving my PhD, I took over the directorship of the Sequoia Foundation. We primarily do grant and contract work for state and federal agencies, including fisheries management, marine protected area analysis, nuclear energy policy, community resilience, superfund site remediation, and socio-economic impact of environmental disasters. In November 2016 we drafted the nation of Tuvalu’s Climate Migration Policy.
Around 2012, I began getting much more involved in California native plants and land stewardship. In 2013, I was able to acquire the first parcels of a large property on the north slope of Volcan Mountain, north of Julian in east San Diego County. I eventually put together a coalition of state and federal agencies--including NRCS, CALFIRE, USFWS, and USFS--to assist in cone collection, seedling propagation, site prep, and reforestation. We’ve planted nearly a thousand seedlings over the last five years and collected hundreds of thousands of seeds for propagation throughout southern California.
Starting in 2016, I became heavily involved in Democratic politics. I ran successfully for a seat on the Democratic State Central Committee, then for the remainder of a four year term on the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee, then for Executive Board of the California Democratic Party. I’ve spent the last three years organizing, advocating, and writing on environmental, public education, and housing issues. I testify regularly at San Diego City Council and San Diego County Board of Supervisors against sprawl development, general plan amendments, inadequate climate action plans, underfunding of urban forestry, and disinvestment in communities of color.
I’m currently President of the San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action. In addition, I serve as Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon’s appointee to the San Diego River Conservancy Governing Board. I’m a Director of the Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego, a member of the Volcan Mountain Foundation Stewardship Committee, a member of CNPS San Diego’s Conservation Committee, and a Trustee of the La Jolla Town Council. I live with my wife and two children in my hometown of La Jolla, where I am Director of the Sequoia Foundation, a nonproft social science research firm dedicated to assessing the socio-economic impacts of environmental disasters.
My true passions are reading, writing, land stewardship, and family. My wife and I have two young children--Bardot and Sequoia--and if I weren’t trying to save their world, I’d be spending every possible moment sharing time with them.
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I currently serve in this role. The time required fluctuates depending on where we are in the election cycle. I think it's fair to say that I am one of the members most involved in whipping votes and speaking before the Committee on endorsements and other business. Averaged over the course of a 2 year election cycle, I probably spend 20 hours a month specifically on Central Committee-related business.
The party is at a crossroads. The challenges our county, state, country, and world face cannot be solved without dramatic changes in our way of life. None of the solutions currently being considered to the myriad crises we face--climate, housing, inequality, wage stagnation, global decline in the quality of democracy, loss of habitat and biodiversity, great power conflict--are close to being adequate to the problems. I believe strongly that the Democratic Party will have to confront these challenges virtually alone, with the Republican Party at best defending a failed status quo and at worst actively pushing toward the abyss. Unfortunately, with California a one-party state, and San Diego increasingly a one-party county, all of the reactionary interests that once supported Republicans will begin to invest in internal Democratic Party elections, primary fights, and Dem-on-Dem general elections. It is now more important than ever to elect party members who will represent the interests of rank-and-file Democratic voters. I have whipped dozens of crucial environmental and progressive votes on the Central Committee, and have taken point on many of the most important. I was Kimberley Ellis's San Diego delegate whip for her 2017 race for Party Chair. I was Kevin de León's San Diego delegate whip for his successful, insurgent quest for the party endorsement for US Senate. I've built the relationships and the credibility to get critical votes across the finish line. I believe if elected I will continue to play a vital role in the Party's process of deliberation and debate.
I was raised by Jesse Jackson Democrats, and I still return often to his speeches and writings. I believe in the value of strict personal virtue in the service of the struggle to bring our principles--of equality, compassion, solidarity, reason, popular sovereignty--to power. I harken back to FDR, and even Teddy Roosevelt in his Bull Moose days: "In every wise struggle for human betterment one of the main objects, and often the only object, has been to achieve in large measure equality of opportunity. In the struggle for this great end, nations rise from barbarism to civilization, and through it people press forward from one stage of enlightenment to the next. One of the chief factors in progress is the destruction of special privilege. The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been, and must always be, to take from some one man or class of men the right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows." There is a powerful, liberating thread running through the American tradition, in constant tension with the forces of slavery, indigenous genicide, and conquest--which calls us to mutual responsibility and respect, to preservation and stewardship of the natural world, to live more fully, more authentically, our foundational principles of liberty and equality.
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It is time for the United States to end its 40 year war in the Greater Middle East and invest in rebuilding our country.
Ours is the path great nations take to ruin. Young nations demand that revolution yield liberty. Thriving nations demand that war be beneficial to their citizens. They use their armies to defend their borders, or to extend their borders to their advantage. Empires, in their youth, demand that military expenditure and sacrifice yield extravagant profit. Dying empires bleed themselves out in wasteful, counterproductive, impoverishing wars. They are bled out by their own bloodsucking elites, who are happy to hasten the end, so long as they and their families can enjoy the brief, terminal opulence.
Ours — the most powerful nation the world has ever seen — has spent the last half century stumbling into distant, mind-numbingly stupid conflicts across the globe. We’ve beat our ploughshares into swords. Instead of investing in the American people — our infrastructure, our education, our industry, our democracy, which are the ultimate guarantors of our security and prosperity — we’ve used the windfalls of seven decades at the apex of the global capitalist system to put the world to bayonet, with no enduring benefit to working Americans.
Did we win or lose in Vietnam? In Iraq? In Afghanistan? In Libya? In Syria? What does it mean to win or to lose a war, when there’s nothing to gain? When you’re pouring your nation’s unimaginable wealth into the abyss? Did we lose in Iraq? Yes, we lost in Iraq. We lost 4,000 mother’s children. 30,000 thousand men and women came home with broken bodies. A hundred thousand more haunted by their deployments. We’re still losing 6,000 veterans every year to suicide.
We lost four trillion of our hard-earned dollars. Cash that single mothers scraped together waiting tables. Cash small business owners stayed up nights sweating over. Missed their kids’ little league games over. Did we lose? Damn straight we lost. We lost everything we could have built with that money. We lost roads, rails, affordable housing, hospitals, bridges, schools. We lost adult education programs, and school lunches, and emergency services, and college debt relief, and career counseling, and music programs, and job training. We lost universal pre-school, and paid family leave, and Medicare-for-All.
And for what? To hand a shattered Iraq to the Iranians, give ISIS a vacuum in which to grow, plunge Syria into the bloodiest civil war of the 21st century, destabilize liberal democracy in Europe? Was it worth it? I don’t know, is it worth it to mortgage your home to finance a heroin addiction? No, it wasn’t worth it.
We tried to occupy Afghanistan. Afghanistan. The most time-testedly futile military endeavor known to man. We sent American kids — raised on Iowa corn, Nebraska beef, and Kentucky bourbon — out to godforsaken outposts to get ambushed by the poorest, most battle-hardened peasants on Earth. To momentarily hold a ridge, or bridge, or mountain valley. A few yards of high, dry dirt. To get their beautiful running-back legs blown off by IEDs on roads from nowhere to nowhere. Roads we never should have put them on.
And now the same Strangeloves in Washington clamor for war with Iran. They insist we can’t afford $66 billion in Supplementary Nutrition Assistance or $8 billion for public housing, but think nothing of saddling us with $3 trillion in bad debt to kill a half million Iranians in a war that promises no benefit whatsoever to our country. When we could collapse every petro-dictatorship in the world — Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela — simply by decarbonizing our economy.
This inconceivably vast waste of life, wealth, and opportunity must eventually come to an end. More likely than not that will mean great power conflict. It is therefore important to remember a fundamental truth: great power conflicts are not ultimately won by armies, but by economies. In 2018, for the first time in history, our total defense-related spending topped $1 trillion. A nation that spends a trillion dollars a year keeping standing armies in the field in time of peace does far greater damage to its economy and society than any enemy could hope to. Every dime thus spent is a disinvestment in the productive economy. Heaven forbid the time should come to use those armies to actually defend our nation, we will no longer have the economy to wield them.
Great power conflicts are not ultimately won by armies, but by economies.
If we are to confront the towering challenges of this still-young century, we must project US power. Project our power to build rather than destroy. Project it into the crumbling steel towns of Western Pennsylvania, into Ferguson, into the flooded fields of the Midwest and the fire-ravaged Sierra Nevada, into Baltimore, and St. Louis, and El Centro. After a century of perpetual war, it is time to bring our soldiers home. It is time to reallocate the lion’s share of our military spending to rebuilding our country, to investing in our people and our homeland. It is time to nurse our nation back to health with Medicare-for-All. It is time for massive federal investment in green infrastructure and jobs in order to hasten the decarbonization of our economy and increase productivity and aggregate demand. It is time to foster US dominance in the capital-intensive industries of tomorrow and to invest in the research and development that was a cornerstone of our meteoric ascent in the 20th century. It is time for progressive taxation to fund our common priorities and remedy the wealth and income inequality that is smothering our economy and destabilizing our democracy.
We must do these things not only because they will increase our prosperity and improve our quality of life. Not only because they are essential to combating catastrophic anthropogenic global climate change. Not only because they are equitable, and just, and right. But also because investing in America and its working people is the only thing that will ultimately keep us safe. With all of her imperfections, this nation — the world’s first and oldest liberal democracy, a new thing on this Earth — is yet a project worth saving.
Support for Strict Regulation of Short Term Vacation Rentals (STVRs).
In 2017, Councilmember Barbara Bry presented her compromise ordinance on STVRs to the San Diego City Council, which mandated that only primary residences could be rented, and then only for 6 months at a time for the whole house, or continuously for individiual rooms if the owner was present. I delivered these remarks on behalf of La Jolla Town Council before full Council. The ordinance was adopted but unfortunately later referendized by the STVR industry and withdrawn by Council.
"I’m here today as a citizen and as a trustee of the La Jolla Town Council.
Contrary to popular belief, La Jollans are not close-fisted. The representatives we elect--Our Councilmember Barbara Bry, our Assemblymember Todd Gloria, and our State Senator Toni Atkins--have strong progressive values and platforms. The majority of us believe that it is appropriate and right that our affluence should help to improve the lives and opportunities of those less fortunate. We show up to these meetings, to protests, we organize, we care about issues that only affect us insofar as we are members of the larger community of San Diego. I come here routinely, I come to planning commission, I come to the County Board of Supervisors, to advocate for policies that rarely affect me or my family directly. I don’t come here to complain about potholes in the Village, or about the seals. I come to fight for criminal justice reform, and habitat conservation, and affordable housing, and transit-oriented infill. You will never, ever hear me say the words, “Sorry, it’s not my problem, it doesn’t affect District 1.” When it comes to this City’s nine districts, the only honorable guiding philosophy is, “An injury to one is an injury to all.”
So it gives me enormous comfort and pride when Councilmembers from districts that are less impacted by STVR listen to our pleas, and come to the aid of our threatened coastal communities.
And for those who say the threat isn’t serious, or isn’t real, you are wrong.
San Diego is not just buildings by the beach, which can be filled indifferently with residents or bachelor parties. These are human communities, that endure and evolve over time. These are parents and children, these are teachers, and plumbers, and small business owners. These are planning group members, and beach clean-up volunteers, and Eagle Scouts, and parishioners. As an anthropologist and a native of San Diego, I am acutely aware of the importance of community. Our neighbors have a right to rely on their City to enforce its zoning laws and protect them from uses incompatible with residential life.
And as families are displaced in favor of tourists, so are our community’s children. And with each child lost to STVRs, enrollment drops and funding declines at our local schools, until they can no longer sustain administration, and go the way of Mission Beach Elementary.
Furthermore, illegal lodgings deepen our housing crisis, and push coastal residents to inland communities, where they in turn displace residents of those communities, and so on. And when this game of musical chairs is done, it will, as always, be the most vulnerable left standing...or sleeping under an overpass as it were.
And to those who say the problem isn’t critical and will resolve itself without municipal intervention, you are wrong. Without enforcement of zoning laws, the logic of residential conversion is inexorable. Each new STVR reduces the value of nearby units as residences and increases their value as potential STVRs. This isn’t theoretical. Unless these new ordinances are adopted and enforced, it will become increasingly irrational to purchase any coastal unit as a residence.
STVRs are illegal--just as illegal as putting any other incompatible use in a residential zone--and the so-called crisis is not an inevitable consequence of changing economic norms, but a direct effect of Mayor Faulconer and the City’s consistent failure to enforce its own zoning ordinances."
Opposition to March Ballot for the Convention Center Expansion Initiative (Measure C)
I delivered these remarks before San Diego City Council in opposition to the March ballot placement of the Convention Center Expansion initiative. The item passed and the Expansion ultimately became this year's Measure C.
"Let’s start with obvious: it is self-evident that the intent of voters in approving Measure L was not to encourage the Council to play political games with the placement of initiatives. That it was not to encourage Council to manipulate the placement of initiatives in order to benefit their own preferred initiatives. That’s self-evident. They wanted the largest, most representative electorate to weigh in on initiatives. Period.
Proponents of a March placement are correct, in their manner, that Measure L gives Council the authority to do so, but it doesn’t absolve members from weighing the benefits of such a placement against its costs.
What supporters of the Expansion want from a March election is plain. A smaller, less representative, more favorable primary electorate, on a clean ballot. The hoteliers want more public monies to subsidize their profit-making enterprises. Labor council wants more jobs for its members.
What some progressives on the Council and their supporters want--many of whom may be neutral or opposed to the Expansion per se--is to keep additional revenue measures from crowding the Housing Federation and MTS revenue measures in November. Which is laudable in its own way, but which I think rests ultimately on an underappreciation of just how bad the Convention Center Expansion would be for working San Diegans.
Improving the electoral math for a measure that would saddle generations of San Diegans with a $3.5 billion dollar debt to line the pockets of wealthy downtown interests is a cost grossly disproportionate to any electoral benefit an MTS measure might thereby obtain.
The Convention Center Expansion initiative is theft. Not because it’s a tax, but because it allocates that tax to padding the profits of the wealthy and the powerful, to giving Scrooge McDuck more gold to dive into, rather than to infrastructure and services of enduring and sustainable and equitable benefit to all San Diegans.
The argument that local taxpayers won’t have to pay for the Expansion is for children. Anyone sophisticated enough to make that argument is sophisticated enough to know how ridiculous it is. TOT funds are a precious resource. When you spend TOT on nonsense instead of desperately needed services and infrastructure, it is local taxpayers that suffer and local taxpayers that will eventually be forced to pony up to cover the shortfall.
TOT is precious. It should be used to address the things that keep San Diegans up at night. Health, debt, housing, employment, education. I’m sorry, but no one, not a single person in our city of 1.4 million, lays awake at night worrying about the size of the convention center. “What’s wrong honey, why can’t you sleep?” “It’s just that Convention Center. It’s just...not big enough.” Maybe the Convention Center Board members lay awake worrying about it. But probably not even them. They have mortgages, and family struggling with addiction, and that freckle on their back that might be melanoma, and 40 minutes of morning commute. Just like the rest of us. Raise the TOT to solve that: healthcare, early education, transit, housing.
We have a looming climate catastrophe that this $3.5 billion does nothing to address. Worse, the Center is already pumping seawater out of its basement around the clock and the Expansion wades further out into the bay, in spite of dire warnings about sea level rise. Don’t just use homelessness and transportation to bait the hook. Give us a measure that is dedicated in its entirety to confronting San Diego’s most pressing crises. Confronting what keeps San Diegans up at night.
Do not give hoteliers and other downtown interests the edge they crave to leverage public funds for their private profit. I’m sensitive to the needs of working people. But I’m not climbing into bed with the downtown interests just because labor’s in there telling me the sheets are Egyptian cotton. I don’t care. That’s not intersectionality. That’s not solidarity. Solidarity doesn’t mean helping one another do the wrong thing.
It doesn’t make any sense. Why fight for jobs doing the wrong thing? When you’ve got an army of allies to help ensure you have good union jobs doing the right thing. If we spent that TOT on what we ought--on mass transit, on transit-supportive, mixed-income public housing, on universal pre-K, on permanent supportive housing and wrap-around services--we’d fight for PLAs, local hire, prevailing wage, card-check neutrality, on all those too.
I have no beef with my sisters and brothers in labor. I love ‘em. I love labor. They just happen to be wrong on this. This violates our shared values...and they know it. I know them. Personally. And they are sophisticated enough to know that trickle down economics is wrong, that WEALTHfare is wrong, that indebting working San Diegans to give to the powerful is wrong.
They know! Some of these people helped teach ME how valuable TOT funds are. Of all people, they know.
Give San Diegans a TOT measure that has $2 billion for mass transit, $2 billion for mixed-income, transit-supportive, public housing, and a billion for universal pre-k. I’ll fight for that. Address our climate crisis, our housing crisis, our equity crisis. All good union jobs. PLA that to the moon. But please, do not give the Expansion the March ballot the hoteliers crave. It’s not worth it.
The Convention Center Expansion doesn’t deserve to be on ANY ballot. It is entitled, however, by law, to be on the November ballot. Let it fall where it is entitled to fall. Thank you."
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- Asegurar que los problemas de salud y bienestar públicos se prioricen en las políticas de San Diego
- Atender la necesidad de un marco de justicia social para abordar el racismo sistémico en nuestra sociedad
- Mejoramiento del transporte público y las ciclovías del Distrito
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As a full scope women's health care doctor including being an abortion provider, mother of a toddler and 7 year old, and triathlete, you can guarantee that I have endurance, tenacity and discipline. I served on the San Francisco Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force and several Boards in the past, and I currently serve as the Legislative Chair of the California Democratic Party Women's Caucus. All of these experiences have helped me realize my desire to influence change and advocate for my community on a larger level by running for public office. I am also in the current Emerge California 2016 class and understand the importance of getting more women at the decision making table. As a medical provider, I am trained to listen and utilize a shared-decision making model to come up with a plan. I will take these skills and apply them to our San Francisco residents so that they can be heard and supported via my participation in the San Diego Central Committee.
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As a full scope women's health care doctor including being an abortion provider, mother of a toddler and 7 year old, and triathlete, you can guarantee that I have endurance, tenacity and discipline. I love making lists, prioritiznig, and will fulfill my duties and obligations to reflect the respect that the constituents and fellow Democrats have placed in me.
I am distressed to learn that the Democratic party is losing membership, and I believe the function of the County Central Committee is ensure the reversal of this trend. I will work towards increasing member and registering people to vote at citizenship ceremonies, public parks, street fairs, and farmer’s markets. The Central Committee has currently reached a critical level of divisiveness which will only result in our opponents succeeding- we must focus on the issues that make us Democrats and support the city of San Diego to be great.
What public figures, past and present, do you believe have given the most postive examples of what this party stands for? Please explain your reasons for thinking so.
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I am a Democrat since I believe it is the party that values the individual’s contributions to bettering themselves and the group/world at large. The expression of one’s views are encouraged and incorporated into the decision making process. I believe in poverty mitigation and asset building via fair pay and improved job opportunities. As a working mother, I will work to ensure quality and affordable childcare and preschool, even working towards offering on-site options if feasible for our families in line with the Democratic values. I am distressed to learn that the Democratic party is losing membership, and I believe the function of the County Central Committee is ensure the reversal of this trend. I will work towards increasing member and registering people to vote at citizenship ceremonies, public parks, street fairs, and farmer’s markets. The Central Committee has currently reached a critical level of divisiveness which will only result in our opponents succeeding- we must focus on the issues that make us Democrats and support the city of San Diego to be great. The Central Committee’s role with regard to environmental issues is to endorse and promote protections of the environment so that we can be proud of the city in which our children will reside.
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- Mejorar el Partido Demócrata a través de reformas en sus procesos de respaldo, para garantizar la equidad y la eficiencia
- Trabajar para promover la transparencia, la rendición de cuentas y la integridad dentro del Partido Demócrata
- Promover candidatos y una legislación que apoyen los problemas importantes para nuestras comunidades
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Codi Vierra moved to San Diego in the fall of 2012 to attend UC San Diego. She earned her Bachelor’s degree with a major in Political Science, concentrating on American Politics, and two minors in Business, and in Urban Studies and Planning.
She began her entry into local politics while at UCSD, first volunteering on Congressman Scott Peters’ 2012 race for Congress, and then returning to serve as an intern on his re-election campaign in 2014. She later served on the executive board of the College Democrats at UCSD as the Communications Director and then as Associate Vice President of Internal Affairs. In these roles she sent weekly newsletters to inform the membership and managed the organization’s social media, as well as organized formal quarterly debates and joint meetings with the College Republicans and other organizations.
She also served as the Executive Director of the Student Organized Voter Access Committee (SOVAC) under the Associated Students (A.S.) Office of External Affairs. In this role, she negotiated a new agreement with several residential area administrators to allow for door-to-door voter registration in on-campus housing the week prior to voter registration deadlines. She was responsible for organizing the annual move-in voter registration drive in each residential area, in which she recruited, trained, and managed volunteers to register 1000 students, later registering a total of over 2000 students before the 2016 primary. She negotiated with the San Diego County Registrar of Voters (ROV) to have a new Mail-Ballot Drop-Off location on campus for the 2016 primary, in order to make voting easier and more convenient. She then recruited, scheduled, and managed 12 students that served as paid workers for the ROV, in order to manage it. She organized events for SOVAC and A.S. to increase engagement, including a San Diego City Council District 1 Candidate Forum. She also assisted with other goals and projects of the A.S. Office of External Affairs, including as a lead for UCSD’s delegation to the annual UC Student Lobby Conference in Sacramento, in which she helped train students on how to talk to their representatives about budget priorities and the issues that are most important to them.
In 2017 she served as Deputy South State Regional Director for the California Young Democrats (CYD), and then was elected South State Regional Director in 2018. In these roles, she helped start and grow Democratic clubs at local high schools and colleges in San Diego County, leading it to be the largest and most active region in the state. She raised funds to allow for increased participation by local chapters within CYD, including attending conventions and State Leadership Committee meetings. In 2019, she was elected Secretary, and was awarded the CYD Outstanding Leadership Award for her efforts.
In 2019 she was also elected to serve as an Assembly District Delegate to the California Democratic Party (CDP) from Assembly District 78. She was then appointed to serve on the CDP Voter Services Committee, through which she is helping the party with its goal of increasing student voter registration and participation. This year she was also able to pass a resolution through the CDP supporting the restoration of voting rights for Californians in prison or on parole, making it an official position of the party.
Codi also served as Secretary, Director of Membership, and now Vice President of the San Diego County Young Democrats (SDCYD). As Secretary, she kept meeting minutes, created a new ranked choice voting process, prepared ballots for endorsement meetings, and contributed extensively to the bylaws review process. As Director of Membership, she created a new process for joining and renewal to ensure the club had all required information for rechartering with the SDCDP, CDP and CYD, thus ensuring maximum representation for the club in each organization’s endorsement process. As Vice President, she chairs the Political Affairs Committee, responsible for determining the club’s endorsement calendar, candidate questionnaires, noticing candidates according to bylaws and party rules, and organizing political activities for the club.
In 2019 she was also elected Vice President of the new University City (U City) Democratic Club, and has helped guide the club through its first year, including the 2020 primary endorsement process.
In 2017, Codi was elected an at-large member of the San Diego County Democratic Party Council of Clubs Club Development Committee, led by the Director of the Council of Clubs, and served until 2019. Through this role, she assisted local clubs and the Director, providing feedback about impacts of proposed bylaw amendments, especially on Young Democrats clubs. She also gave a presentation to the Council in 2018 on the benefits of using Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) for endorsement meetings. Many clubs were already using a multi-round voting process that required members to stay present at meetings for hours on end to go through multiple rounds, or risk hurting their preferred candidate in later rounds. Many clubs have now started adopting RCV, making endorsement meetings faster, smoother, and more accessible.
Codi has also worked on multiple campaigns in the region, and so has observed and engaged with the party and its processes from the outside, as well as within. Recently, when concerns came up about the role of clubs in the local party’s endorsement process, Codi put forth a series of proposals to reform it, including changing the area recommendation process to mimic the CDP’s regional pre-endorsement process, which would give weighted votes to clubs based on the size of their membership, rather than one vote per club, in order to eliminate the incentive for club-splitting. She was appointed an Alternate member of the SDCDP Central Committee this past spring, and so currently has the ability to speak, but not to vote on these matters.
Codi has spent a lot of time working with the local and state parties, including representing groups and Democratic voters in Assembly District 78. She hopes to continue this work, and earn a voting position on the SDCDP Central Committee in order to better advocate for positive change within.
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Through my role as an Alternate Central Committee Member, I am already required to attend monthly meetings of the Central Committee and the Metro West Area Caucus, which I have done regularly since my appointment last year. I have also attended these meetings, the Council of Clubs meetings, local Democratic Club meetings, and the meetings of the California Democratic Party on a regular basis for several years. I will continue to heavily invest my time and energy in all facets of our Democratic Party if elected.
The most significant challenge facing the Democratic Party now and in the next decade is, and will be, participation: folks choosing not to participate in our Party, and folks wanting to participate, but facing barriers to do so.
The Democratic Party has been known as a "big tent" party when it comes to ideology. While we agree on important issues more amongst each other than with the Republican Party, differences on many issues has led some to seek other options or to choose not participate at all. However, the answer isn't for the Democratic Party to become narrower, but rather to diversify. People want and deserve to feel and be represented. We must build and maintain a broad coalition within the Democratic Party in order for the Party to survive. This means making an effort to reach out to and bring in people with different experiences, electing them to leadership, and supporting them for public office. We should also support electoral reform that allows for greater expression of diverse opinions while also maintaining unity, such as ranked choice voting.
Many other folks who do choose to participate face barriers in doing so, especially people of color, people with disabilities, and elderly and young people. We must take every step possible in eliminating these barriers to participation, which include everything from active voter suppression to more administrative hurdles. As a party, we must support legislation that would undo and prohibit voter suppression tactics: targeted purging of voter rolls, disenfranchisement of currently or formerly incarcerated individuals, voter ID laws that operate effectively as a poll tax and disproportionately impact Native Americans and college students, gerrymandering to diminish the voices of targeted groups, voter intimidation, and more.
But we must also work to make voting easier and more accessible. California has made strides in this area with online voter registration, same-day conditional voter registration, no-excuse-required absentee/mail-in ballots, and automated registration at the DMV. However, there is more we can do. There are efforts to require public colleges and universities to provide automated registration to students when registering for classes —we should support them. We should also support legislation that would vastly improve voter education in our high schools, like last year's AB 773. We must work to encourage San Diego County to adopt the Voter’s Choice Act Model in which every registered voter would receive a mail-in ballot, polling places would be replaced by vote centers with more functionality and early voting, and more. Making voting easier, more convenient, and more accessible will help increase participation among marginalized groups with historically lower participation. Our Party can do this by endorsing ballot measures, lobbying elected officials, and supporting candidates that share our values and will pass laws to implement these needed changes.
While I am currently working on these efforts, being elected to the San Diego County Democratic Party Central Committee would give me a greater voice and power to do so.
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- Apoyar políticas para buenos empleos locales con salario justo y buenos beneficios
- Combatir el cambio climático con resiliencia comunitaria y energía verde
- Crear un Partido que sea más receptivo y empoderador
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Gretchen Newsom is an accomplished and talented political strategist, community leader, and advocate of working families.
Gretchen works as the Political Director for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 569 and organizes efforts to invest in local good-paying, green-collar jobs, workforce development, civic engagement, and alternative energy. Additionally, she serves on the California Employment Training Panel.
She served for four terms as President of the Ocean Beach Town Council, and worked toward preserving and improving community resources, advocating for a sustainable local economy, enhancing community dialogue and civic engagement, increasing neighborhood safety, and maintaining the unique “vibe” of Ocean Beach. Ms. Newsom chaired the famous night-time OB Holiday Parade, and she is a member of the OB Historical Society, Friends of the OB Library, and Run Women Run. She also served as an executive board member of the Point Loma Democratic Club.
She was previously employed by a social innovation firm that assists clients with creating physically, socially, and economically sustainable communities. In her role as Principal and Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs, Gretchen conducted research and analysis of policy initiatives, and tracked legislation connected to community development, environmental policies, affordable housing, homelessness, federal and state budgets, and new funding opportunities.
From 2009 to 2011, Gretchen served as Special Assistant to Chairman Phil Angelides of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), a bipartisan body charged with conducting the nation’s official inquiry into the causes of the financial and economic crisis and reporting its findings to the President, Congress, and the American people.
In that role, she was instrumental in managing the FCIC’s start-up, operational infrastructure, external relations, and day-to-day operations. She was centrally involved in producing the Commission’s final report, which became a New York Times and Washington Post best seller – it was hailed as “the most comprehensive indictment of the American financial failure that has yet been made” and “the definitive history of this period.” After the release of the report, Gretchen organized and executed an international book tour and interfaced with the European Parliament on the presentation of this U.S. report.
Gretchen previously worked for Phil Angelides in a variety of roles for over seven years. This included working on a partnership with Magic Johnson and Canyon Partners on the creation of affordable rental housing in urban areas, and starting a real estate investment firm focused on urban in-fill, smart growth developments, and clean energy projects. She also served as a Deputy Policy Director on a gubernatorial campaign, and conducted corporate research and drafted legislation while working at the California State Treasurer’s office.
Gretchen graduated Magna Cum Laude from Humboldt State University with a degree in Government and Politics, and was awarded with the “Woman of the Year” honor. Gretchen is also a graduate of the prestigious California State Executive Fellowship Program.
Gretchen lives in Ocean Beach with her son.
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- Hacer que el Partido Demócrata sea lo más inclusivo, progresista, justo y transparente posible.
- Programas del partido para atraer, educar y fortalecer activamente a los electores Demócratas en todas nuestras diversas comunidades.
- Iniciativas del partido para identificar, ayudar, capacitar y apoyar a los candidatos demócratas locales que compartan nuestros valores progresistas en todos los niveles del gobierno.
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I have been an active member of our local party since 2004 when I traveled to Arizona to do Spanish language outreach for John Kerry. I joined the fledgling GO Team in 2005 and, in 2006, I led Grassroots Organizing Team ("GO-Team") and volunteer coordination for the Democratic Party at the north county office in Escondido. In 2008, I became the GO Team South Region Vice Chair. In this role, I acted as volunteer coordinator and led Spanish language outreach efforts in the 2008 South County offices, 2010 South County office and the 2012 South County Primary Office for the Democratic Party
Starting in 2011, I became active in the medical marijuana movement, serving as political and executive director of the medical marijuana professional association in San Diego County. I ran local medical marijuana initiative campaigns starting in 2012, culminating in the successful passage of the ballot initiatives for medical marijuana access in La Mesa and Lemon Grove. I was the head of the San Diego campaign to legalize marijuana in California in 2016.
In 2015, I formed the Alliance for Community Engagement, a nonprofit to increase civic engagement and voter awareness. Under my leadership, in 2016, we partnered with the Black Political Association of California (BAPAC) and Next-Gen to create and execute "My Family Votes/¡Mi Familia Vota!" program to register and turnout voters in communities of color. In 2018, we conducted a Vote-By-Mail registration drive, as well as voter education and pre-education drive in high schools around San Diego County. We also created the "Art on Third" art and community events space in Chula Vista to foster art and civic involvement in the community.
In 2018, I was the voter systems administrator for the San Diego County Democratic Party. My duties included setting up voter/volunteer information databases for candidates, training candidates on how to best use these systems, and assisting them, as well as the party, in generating target universes for voter contact. I also administered social media outreach for the San Diego County Democratic Party, as its facebook administer.
In 2018 - 2019, I also ran the "We are United"/"Estamos Unidos" campaign of inclusion for the San Diego Democratic Party, to combat the divisiveness, hate and exclusion of minority communities by Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
This year, I will be organizing with local San Diegans and traveling to swing states to defeat Donald Trump, and his Senate enablers, and restore decency, dignity and sanity to our federal government.
I don't just talk the talk; I walk the walk - I will do the work to promote our values on Democratic Central Committee!
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We MUST address the climate crisis head-on, at every level of government NOW - it is an imminent threat to our communities and way of life. We must reform our healthcare system - the most costly, inefficient and unequal in the developed world. And we must reform our tax code so that the rich are taxed their fair share, by eliminating tax breaks and loopholes for the wealthy, and ensuring that they are paying their fair share of social security.
I believe that all voters should have an equal voice - regardless of their wealth or connection. I believe that corporate influence has had a corrosive effect on our government, has made our elections less democratic, and led to some horrible policies that have caused some of the biggest problems we see today - exorbitant health care costs, the global warming crisis, and the ever widening opportunity gap between the rich and the rest. Overturning Citizens United and getting rid of corporate influence in politics is paramount to creating a democracy that serves us all.
I believe in, and have seen, the power of grassroots activism, and I know that a small group of dedicated individuals can change the world. I want the local Democratic Party to be the vehicle to organize for progressive change.
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- Vivienda y falta de vivienda
- Crisis climática y medio ambiente
- Justicia social y económica
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- Crear plataformas proactivas y ganadoras para nuestro Partido Demócrata. Aumentar el compromiso de los votantes del partido demócrata y el número de votantes jóvenes. Continuaré trabajando intensamente para que los Demócratas sean electos.
- Defenderé a las familias trabajadoras, los salarios justos, las viviendas asequibles, la educación más equitativa y de mejor calidad, la pureza del agua y el aire, un sistema inmigratorio humano y cuidados de la salud para todos.
- Trabajar a favor de la unidad, equidad, inclusión y justicia en las resoluciones que toma el Partido Demócrata de San Diego.
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- Respaldar a los candidatos que lucharán por la justicia socioeconómica, la igualdad y los valores progresistas. Hacer que nuestros funcionarios electos rindan cuentas.
- Abogar en nombre de los adultos mayores, los veteranos, los derechos de los trabajadores y las políticas ambientales.
- Inscribir a las personas para votar no sirve de nada si en realidad no votan. Uno de mis objetivos es involucrar a los votantes entre ciclos electorales y alentarlos a participar en el Partido Demócrata.
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- Kate Meyer (fellow CDP Voter Services Committee Member), Bernie Sanders San Diego Area Field Director
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Last cycle I ran a field for a campaign that started off in a historically ignored district with no resources and by the end of it we had volunteer organizers running 8 satellite locations on top of our 3 offices, which allowed us to flip one of the most conservative strongholds in SoCal! (Escondido). Here's a quick video I helped narrate to give you an idea of what our field program was like, and how I operate.
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- Responderé a todos los residentes, no solo a los votantes
- Haré que unirse y servir en el partido sea fácil
- "Pasaré el micrófono" a los activistas de base
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Since 2010, with a background in open source software development, consensus-based decision-making and cooperative business operation, I have volunteered and contracted technology services to dozens of grassroots progressive projects including local progressive candidates, nonprofits, and community groups and initiatives. I was a founding volunteer-turned-Associate Director of Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) from 2014-2017. I was elected and served as treasurer of San Diego Refugee Forum from 2016-2018, and am a member of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) San Diego Chapter, Jewish Voice for Peace San Diego, Tech Worker Coalition (TWC) San Diego Chapter, and was elected and am currently serving as Secretary for the San Diego County Democratic Party.
I am currently building free tech tools for community organizers as Include People, including Every Public Meeting, a website to make it easy to find, attend, and take part in every meeting: county, city, school, and local.
Please get in touch with any questions. I hope to earn your vote!
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Preguntas de The League of Women Voters San Diego (LWVSD) and the League of Women Voters of North County San Diego (LWVNCSD) (3)
Keeping involved in elections, policy change, and the local Democratic Party are all part of my daily work that I am very much committed to. I do intend to utilize the "alternate" vote sharing transparently in order to allow activists and other community members to participate.
We need to open up the party. In my experience as a part of several issue based "chartered club and coalitions" as well as in my time serving as secretary, keeping minutes at all Central Committee and Executive Board meetings, I have witnessed that the local party has developed an overall culture of exclusion and disconnect from most San Diegans. If the local party is to be a people's party, we need to make it easy for working class families, parents, youth, non-English-speaking people, people with disabilities, TLGBQIA+ community members, and to responsibly include trans-border and undocumented issues into our policies, procedures and platforms.
If we're talking elected Democrats, I think that representatives such as AOC, Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders have shown true bravery and principle in their legislative service, being willing to take risks to tell the truth and confront power. As for Democrats past, I think that Ella Baker provides a stellar example of someone who put in the work of relationship-building and community resilience, and someone who took part in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at a time when the "Democratic Party" establishment wasn't living up to it's supposed values.
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I believe that a rising tide lifts all boats.
As a San Diego resident in these times, I believe we have a duty to learn and consider our histories as we work together to ensure rights and equitable opportunities for all.
Since the first violent invasions of Kumeyaay Land in 1769 through today, greedy wealthy people and institutions have hoarded money and power in San Diego by dividing working class people, and disproportionately harming Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and TLGBQ+ communities. But histories like the Lemon Grove Incident, the formation of Chicano Park and the numerous large-scale mobilizations for Black, Intersectional, Immigrant and Refugee human rights and liberation shows that we in the San Diego-Tijuana region are all in this together. While we face urgent challenges, when we fight for each other we all win.
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This is a video I made in 2018 to launch a free website to aggregate local meetings, like City Council and School Board meetings: Every Public Meeting, to make showing up to meetings easier.
This is a video I made in 2018 to launch a free website to aggregate local meetings, like City Council and School Board meetings: Every Public Meeting, to make showing up to meetings easier.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Defender y apoyar el respaldo de candidatos y medidas que se enfocan en la vivienda, la conectividad, la acción climática, la restauración de los humedales, la conservación de los bosques, el agua limpia y playas seguras.
- Apoyar políticas e iniciativas que promuevan e inviertan en infraestructuras resistentes al clima y planificación de acuerdo con los mandatos y las leyes estatales.
- Crear un Partido que promueva las actividades para conectar con el votante y que responda a nuestros asuntos, tanto a nivel local como regional.