"Spread the Word Day"
Sunday Oct 16th. 9:30am
Meet at Peace & Freedom Office at 2617 S. Hauser Bl. Los Angeles 90016
310-367-9648
Have fun sharing information with voters about ballot measures crucial for
California's education and social service budget.
A vote for Peace & Freedom candidates is a vote against the "trickle down
austerity"
State Senate Candidate Cindy Varela Henderson Calls for Action Against Budget
Cuts
Emphasizes distinctions from Democratic and Republican candidates
Im pro-working family and pro-environment; theyre not.
Cindy Varela Henderson, the Peace & Freedom Party candidate in the
26th Senate District (and the only female & Latina in this race), is running to
expose the bankruptcy of tax and budget policies that produce cutbacks and
lay-offs and to offer alternatives, and shes taking her message door to door
in her district.
Everyone running talks about being for jobs and education, Im the
only one with a plan to fund jobs and to fund education, Henderson said.
I propose revising 1978s Proposition 13 by implementing a
split-roll taxation so homeowners and residents are protected and corporations
begin to pay their fair share, Henderson said. It is time for the
corporations to pay.
I propose implementing an oil severance tax to provide additional
money for the people of this state from the oil industry, she added. Other
states do this, why not California?
I propose returning to previous tax rates so the wealthy are
taxed as they used to be, she said.
She said the current Democrat leadership in Sacramento kept all
these ideas off the table, and instead chose to agree to massive, devastating
cuts in jobs. education and services.
They dont want to tax the corporations and the rich, Henderson
said. The burden on working people is already too great. Working people need
relief from that burden.
Henderson and campaign volunteers will leave campaign headquarters
at 2617 S. Hauser Blvd in Los Angeles 90016 to knock on doors, talk with
voters, and distribute brochures this weekend October 16-17th and every weekend
til the election Nov. 2.
Were emphasizing that this election is historic, she said, with
several ballot measures that can either check the power of the corporations and
restore funds to the state treasury and restore some democracy, or can give
away even more of whats left of Californias resources and the power of
working people to improve their lives.
Were urging No on 23, Yes on 24 and 25, and No on 26, she said.
In combination, this would increase state revenues, eliminate the minority
rule over the budget and keep California on track to protect and improve our
environment.
She criticized her Democrat opponent, Curren Price, for his economic
development proposals as tried and failed economics. He wants to offer tax
breaks to corporations. The difference couldnt be more revealing. She also
noted Prices recent sponsorship of a bill that would cancel 911 phone service
for people who couldnt afford a phone and his opposition to a ban on plastic
bags after receiving money from that industry.
Pro-corporation and anti-environment. This cannot be our future, she said.
Henderson said her Republican opponent, Nachum Shifren, spends most
of his time scapegoating immigrants and their alleged impact on education,
classrooms and jobs, as if those are at the bottom of the economic scale are
the reason teachers are underpaid, laid off or furloughed and schools are in
disrepair. Henderson criticized both of her opponents for apparently having no
memory of when California had the best education system in the country, and it
was free, and of having no vision or willingness to try to restore the state
to its former greatness.
Prices vision is to administer austerity, Shifrens vision is to
make it worse, she said.
Henderson is a phone technician, a member of the Communication Workers of
America, Her campaign website is: www.voteCindy4Senate.com.
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