Voters registered Decline-To-State numbering 22% in our District have voted for the Lindblad Campaign and Platform at unheard levels for a Green and duopolist-free affiliation: about 90% of us and the alternate parties of Progressiveness have opted for Revolutionary governance!
Jack Lindblad is running to a certain win California's 39th State Assembly District seat in 2012. In a back-to-back contest and one-on-one rematch with the incumbent in 2010 having yielded 22%, tripling the vote from the 8.1% showing in 2008, Lindblad is poised to win in the top two positions in the June Primary. His award-winning sustainable urban design and architecture practice has a healthcare facility emphasis. Lindblad campaigns on a Green-values platform for a carbon-neutral, relocalized, 100% renewable energy, steady state economy, basing development on bio-regional determinism, not developers. He will advance these moral imperatives in the Legislature to balance the budget, manage multiple collapses, mitigate and adapt to ecological collapse's worst catastrophes. A member of Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council, he has supported community grass-root efforts, forming neighborhood councils, co-authoring sustainable community plans, stopping gentrification, revitalizing the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed, assisting in the 'No on B' win to provide unfettered solar power to stakeholders. Jobs, Quality of Life, Fully Funded Public Education - the California Dream for All. Vox Populi is coming to Sacramento!
Politics are dominated by greed, corporatism, militarism and the narrow two-party duopoly. This has led humanity to ecological collapse and social and economic inequity.
At age 59, Lindblad is running for Assembly to advance the ethical and moral imperatives of a Green New Deal in the Legislature, and in so doing, manage and adapt to multiple collapses, mitigate the most catastrophic effects of climate-change, see a transition to a relocalized, green-jobs, carbon-neutral, 100% renewable, net-zero-energy, steady-state economy - arising from the financial meltdown and ongoing 'Great Disruption' - replacing the failed, fossil fuel, carbon-based, "business-as-usual" growth economy, whether in politics or his architecture practice, to lessen the likelihood of looming human extinction. Henry A. Giroux captures his concern to seek public office to replace the corporate-emcumbered incumbent:
"The social and economic collapse we are now experiencing was preceded by a moral and political collapse, largely caused by a political class and a formative culture deeply insensitive to its social and ethical responsibilities."
What has prepared Lindblad to be our District's grassroots representative in the Legislature? Taking no corporate donations nor the beholdence that is part of the bargain, being an effective squeaky wheel in advocacies for health-care patient rights against Big Insurance, advocating for local water reliance, seeing success in the award-winning Panorama City commercial area revitalization plan, experience of meeting project budgets and payroll as a small business, supporting community grass-root efforts, including forming neighborhood councils, co-authoring sustainable community plans, stopping gentrification and in helping to tip the balance against the 2009 Los Angeles City initiative - what amounted to a solar power grab.
Sizable inroads in coalitional politics promise to be realized by the Lindblad Campaign in racking up more the sum of the voter totals of the smaller parties, building on the 8.06% earned in our 2008 campaign, representing 1600% of the Green Party registered base, ranking at the top of the results of other contests where Greens ran. Reaching across partisan lines augers well for the potential of electability to the State Assembly and bridge-building once in office.
By learning from what worked in our 2008 effort, the Lindblad Campaign is ramping up commensurate to win in 2010! Issues that Lindblad is articulating that will form the legislative agenda are locally-based, time-tested in the 2008 effort, and relevant to 39th District constituents:
Social justice issues are inextricably tied to environmental justice and must be part of the environmental agenda. Once elected, I will support and advance legislation to:
one: Save our Neighborhoods! - By lessening the most catastrophic effects of global warming, promote a healthy environment, see a transition to a relocalized, green-collar, steady-state economy, promote sustainable living, fully fund (with inclusion in the stimulus plan) our 32 District-wide contaminated ground water cleanup projects, implement Greenways per Los Angeles 1968 Citywide Plan, Los Angeles River rewilding and cessation of neighborhood gentrification to protect neighborhood integrity - basing development on bio-regional determinism, not developers,
By decentralizing and relocalizing water resources, energy, material goods and food production: Lower impact development with restoration of the Pacoima-Tujunga watershed - with more parks - with hiking, biking, and horse trails along the Los Angeles River washes. Ecological wisdom!
two: Ensure Health care is a Right, not a privilege! - By guaranteeing quality universal single payer healthcare for all that will save 30% over the current privatized model,
three: Stop Payola Politics! By banning all corporatist lobbying and campaign spending with full implementation of public financing of elections and formation of a District-wide Assembly council. Grass-roots Democracy!
four: Protect Rights - not Raids! - By asserting Human Dignity, building community and fair Immigration rights by immediately ending immigration raids and deportation. By reversing a long term trend of spending on prisons over education. by early childhood care, education, mentoring and sports to prevent gang violence. Educate - not Incarcerate! Social Justice. Non-violence. Respect for Diversity.
five: Balance the budget on time! By a split roll amendment to Proposition 13 for business property to be assessed on a 'mark-to-market' every ten years and a Green New Deal, scuttling the 2/3 requirement in favor of 60% required for budget passage, a smaller, manageable correctional system, and a relocalization of power from Sacramento to communities. Budgetary responsibility.
What are Lindblad's legislative proposals to answer economic collapse?
The regressive tax policy must be changed as part of the initiatives to transition to a green jobs, renewable energy economy and to steer away from unregulated financial environments. Reduce inflationary spiral on lower income workforce by a phased elimination of state tax on wages and salary and sales tax compensated with a graduated tax rate on gross rents, gross business receipts and resource-based, carbon taxes.
Curb unsustainable speculative urban sprawl, mansionification through tax incentives by replacing tax on building improvements with tax on land. By doing so, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use, smart, in-fill community development based on net zero energy (generating on-site renewable power) - will help meet the mission of AB 32 that mandates a 25% reduction in global greenhouses gases by 2020 - encouraged with certified renewable energy credits- such as feed-in-tariffs. The overall objective for the rate-payer is to 'get off the grid' by achieving net-zero-energy performance. Change tax policy to close developer loopholes to increase public coffers. Represent people and neighborhood interests by removing the developer and corporate lobbyist influence over land-use planning decisions. Environmental Justice.
six: Mass transit! New bus lines and light rail connecting inter-nodal transportation hubs. Decentralization.
and seven: New Mission Community College community-based campuses and expansion of curriculum into four-year, state university accreditation and status. 100,000 well-qualified students are shut out from the California University system. Personal and Global Responsibility, Feminism.
Bio:
-Occupation: Architect.
-Master of Architecture, Texas A&M University with an Outpatient Healthcare Facility thesis.
-Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design, University of Washington.
-Pioneered a mix of services which defined Diagnostic and Treatment Outpatient Surgical Medical Centers as a new building type employing innovative daylighting techniques.
-Participant, local Immigration rallies, demonstrations against US war in Iraq, and for impeachment of the Bush regime.
-Co-author and presenter, award-winning Panorama City Urban Design Assistance Team Study for developing of a sustainable historic commercial area in cooperation with Los Angeles City Council and Planning Department.
-Initiator, Panorama City Neighborhood Council formation.
-Member, Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council.