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Peace & Freedom Party Endorses Chase, Van Allen, and Sherman

by Santa Cruz News
The Santa Cruz Chapter of the Peace & Freedom Party has issued its set of endorsements for the 2014 election.
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The Peace & Freedom Party refuses to endorse partisan candidates of the Republican and Democratic Parties in the General Election.

Because of campaign financing, they are the only ones to be able to make it through the primary election given that only the the top two candidates are allowed to proceed to the General Election.

However, we do endorse candidates for non-partisan office and ballot measures. Here are the local endorsements followed by the statewide endorsements:

Santa Cruz City Council - Bruce Van Allen, Leoni Sherman, and Cynthia Chase

Soquel Creek Water District - Bruce Jaffe, Carla Christensen, and Rick Meyer

Santa Cruz School District Trustee Area 2 - Alisun Thompson

Measures K and L - No to tax on medicine

Statewide Ballot

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
44th District: Adam Shbeita

Propositions

The Peace and Freedom Party urges you to vote as follows on the statewide propositions. See our campaign site for details: http://www.peaceandfreedom2014.org/propositions

No on Proposition 1 - water bonds - statement
No on Proposition 2 - rainy day fund
Yes on Proposition 45 - regulation of health insurance premiums
No on Proposition 46 - drug testing of doctors/medical malpractice
Yes on Proposition 47 - criminal sentence reductions
Yes on Proposition 48 - Native American gaming compact

Peace and Freedom Party Says NO on Proposition 1—the Water Bond

Proposition 1 will not give us the water we need. Its main purpose is to build dams and pipelines that will send Sacramento River water to big agricultural companies in the Central Valley.

The water bond will put us, our children, and our grandchildren deeper into debt. With interest (tax-free to the wealthy bond investors), the $7.5 billion bond will cost us $360 million each year for 40 years.

While 36% of the bond money is devoted to the construction of dams, only 6.9% I earmarked for safe and clean drinking water, some of which will benefit low-income communities. There is no guaranteed funding for much needed projects to replace crumbling infrastructure (like sewer systems) in urban areas.

The Winnemum Wintu Tribe opposes this proposition. Much of their land was flooded to create the Shasta Dam in 1945.At that time the government admitted that “affected resources likely cannot be mitigated.” Raising the Shasta Dam, which is likely to be funded by this act, would wipe out the tribe's remaining sacred sites, and adversely affect the salmon fishery upon which both native and non-native people depend.

Some large environmental organizations support Proposition 1 because almost 20% of the funds will be available for competitive grants for “multi-benefit ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration projects.” Unfortunately, the dams that will be constructed with almost double the share of the funds will destroy a good deal of ecosystems and watersheds. That is why organizations like Friends of the River and Center for Biological Diversity are opposed to Proposition 1.

Don't be fooled. Proposition 1 will not make rain fall from the sky. But it will take our money and use it for the benefit of big agricultural corporations, while it impacts the few natural resources we have left.

For more information, go to http://www.peaceandfreedom.org
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