Will Jane Rands, the Green Party candidate for the 72nd Assembly District, take away female votes from Republican candidate Linda Ackerman? One can but hope – and there are a lot of Decline to State voters in the district that just might go green in this election.
Here is Rand’s campaign message, from her website:
No one should be without clean water, clean air, health care, or an education, and yet so many people in our state are suffering because they cannot afford these things. If these and other issues like a sustainable economy, decentralized clean energy, equal marriage rights and campaign finance reform are important to you, then I ask you to consider voting for me in the Special Election on Nov. 17.
The man who recently resigned from this office bragged about having an improper relationship with a lobbyist for an energy corporation whose industry he was supposed to be helping to regulate. Although not every elected official might choose to illustrate this metaphor so directly, nearly all take money from lobbyists. I won’t! I simply will not take their money because I am running to represent you and not them.
California needs a new energy plan based on clean, renewable power. We need health care without insurance companies getting in the way. We need a long term solution to bring water to our cities without harming our natural environment. Last year Prop. 8 took away constitutionally guaranteed rights for the first time in our state’s history. This shameful action must be reversed to restore the right of marriage to lesbian and gay couples. Public transportation has been cut terribly while huge sums of money are given to widen freeways that are still jammed with cars. Elect me to work for real mass transit.
Please join me in campaigning for the California we all know we can have if we work together, not twenty years in the future, but now!
According to the L.A. Times, Rand is a systems engineer.
Click here to see Rand’s Facebook page.
Having DICK on Linda’s side is enough of a burden. Let’s hope Jane sends Linda to “the showers” make up and all.
To what kind of woman would Ackerwoman and the brilliant Rands be interchangeable?
Jane’s my old friend and colleague in healthcare and antiwar activism, but unfortunately California is going to remain in a state of paralysis until we get 4 more assemblymen, 2 more senators, and a governor, from what Grayson has dubbed the Conscience Party. So I’ll be walking and phoning for Mr. MacMurray this month!
http://www.macmurray4the72nd.org/
I’ve met Jane Rand on several occasions and she is a quality person. I agree with her on most issues, and I have been to several of the same anti war events that she has attended. I wish her much success, but to think that Republican women will jump over to a green party candidate simply becuase of a pair of ovaries is ridiculous and insulting to women. The views held by a social conservative like Ackerman could not be further from those of Jane Rand. If anything Jane will take votes from MacMurray.
“Will Green Party candidate Jane Rands cut into Linda Ackerman’s votes?”
No. First of all, Linda Ackerman only has one vote, like everyone else. Ackerman is not entitled to anyone else’s vote. Both she and Jane Rands have to earn votes based on their campaigning.
If voters in your district are concerned about candidates winning elections with less than majority support, the solution to that problem is an improved voting system called instant runoff voting. You can learn more about it at fairvote.org.
Jane Rands won’t take money from lobbyists, so she’ll be accountable only to the voters. She’ll be fiscally responsible and socially progressive. By electing a Green, Californians can send a message that they’re tired of dysfunctional government and ready for forward-thinking solutions.
I had the opportunity to listen to Jane Rands yesterday at a panel. She is a complete nut job with policy ideas that will drive more of California’s businesses out. Complete crack pot.