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Sneak preview of our candidate statement for the official Voter Pamphlet. The cost is now $25 a word (!), so we snipped and tweaked until we achieved – in 89 words – our mission of putting on the table what we know is true: California has problems, and solutions, and California can again be a golden state of opportunities in education, health care, environment and jobs.

We used the phrase “filthy rich” to be clear that we are not talking about raising taxes on the middle class, lower income, or even affluent. We’ve been paying taxes, and the “filthy rich” have not! Instead they’ve been using their tax savings to buy politicians and to try to convince the rest of us that lowering their taxes helps us. But we know from the Wall Street bailout that our taxpayer dollars are gushing up, not trickling down.

Here is the statement:

There are solutions! For great schools, health, environment, jobs, and justice. We can stop coddling mega-corporations and billionaires. They’ve gotten filthy rich, and left California flat broke and unemployment sky high.

We can create a State Bank and invest in California not Wall Street.

Let’s expand the good parts of old Prop 13 to keep people in their homes, and fix rotten parts like the 1/3 minority that has veto power over taxing the rich. Let’s implement fair taxes, and give ourselves and our kids a chance.

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— Laura

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