GENERAL QUESTIONS:

1. Who are you? Describe yourself in 100 words or less.

Easy going familiy man who cherishes his wife, son, mother and father and has an deep respect for all his elders. Having worked hard and found some degree of success knows it's part of ' the deal' to give back to the community. Enjoys history, traveling and good friends. Dedidcated to making this best little City in America. Dislikes special interests buying influence to effect change harmful to the residents of Santa Monica.

2. What is your favorite book? Movie? Food?

Favorite book: Currently King Leopold's Ghost

Favorite movie: It's a Wonderful Life

Favorite food: Chocolate Chip Cookies

3. How long have you lived in Santa Monica?

10 years

4. Describe your history of community involvement, if any, in 75 words or less.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Please choose the statement with which you agree most. Feel free to explain your answer in 50 words or less.

5. Tourism is one of Santa Monica's most important industries and has been almost since the city's founding. Yet, especially in the summer and on weekends, Santa Monica can appear downright crowded. Ignoring the economic benefits, with which statement do you agree more:

A. Tourism creates a major inconvenience for Santa Monica residents.

B. Being a world-renowned magnet for tourism is a tribute to Santa Monica and has made our city a more lively, fun and interesting place to live.

I agree with B. What a wonderful way to raise money for the residents of Santa Monica so that we can fund our dreams. And tourist don't come with cars and spend money and obey the laws.

6. Over the years, the City has received two kinds of complaints about traffic. Some residents complain that there is too much traffic going through their neighborhoods, often going too fast, and have pressured the City to construct various forms of "traffic calming." Other residents complain that our streets are clogged with so much traffic that it takes too long to drive around town. With which statement do you agree more:

When it comes to traffic:

A. The most important thing is to protect neighborhoods by slowing down and discouraging cut-through traffic.

B. The most important thing is to find ways to speed up the flow of traffic.

I agree with both. Speed up the major streets so people won't cut thru into nieghborhoods. We've got to get rid of calming the big streets and calm the little ones. It's so simple.

7. Over the past decade, more than a thousand apartments have been built or approved in downtown Santa Monica in response to City incentives. With which statement do you agree more:

A. Santa Monica needs more housing to be built, downtown is the best place to build it and the City should encourage more housing to be built there.

B. Downtown is too crowded already and the City should do what it can to discourage more housing development there by increasing regulations and/or downzoning.

Well I agree with some of part B. Downtown is no place to live unless you like the idea of living in a little Manhatten (NYC). Let's encourage the seperation of commerical and
residential areas. Don't want any more regulations. I don't trust the motives of this Council and their regulations

8. It's generally acknowledged, within and without City government, that navigating the building and development permit process in Santa Monica is a nightmare for developers and homeowners alike, and much more complicated and time-consuming than in other local jurisdictions. With which of the following statements do you agree most:

The major cause of the problems with the building process in Santa Monica is:

A. An incompetent bureaucracy suffering from high turnover and bad training and supervision.

B. The Planning Commission, which has demoralized planning staff and made them fearful of approving projects and has slowed down the approval process itself by applying vague and varying standards.

C. The City Council, which over the years has enacted an overly complex set of laws governing zoning, environmental review and building standards.

I agree with all three frankly. The solution is to elect a new City Council, change the leadership of the Planning Department and then revamp the entire process. Commercial
projects should be more difficult to get approved then home remodels, not easier.

9. Preferential parking districts are controversial in Santa Monica. With which statement do you agree more:

When it comes to street parking in residential neighborhoods located near commercial districts or boulevards,

A. The rights of the residents come first, and no resident should have to compete with a non-resident for a parking space on a resident's street at any time of day.

B. In designating preferential parking districts, the City needs to be more cognizant of the needs of employees and customers.

C. The streets belong to everyone, and the City should get out of the business of designating preferential parking districts.

The streets belong to everyone, and the City should get out of the business of designating preferential parking districts.

A is the answer. Candidates that say it should be shared are catering to their big business donors first and not the resident. I believe the residents (i.e.voters) come first!

10. True or false: The Third Street Promenade has become primarily a destination for visitors and does not cater to local residents. Explain in 50 words or less.

True. With the lack of police enforcement of our laws upon the panhandlers and scary vagrants and the City Attorney failing to require the laws to be enforced the residents know to avoid the area. Sadly, the tourists come are shocked and I bet never return. Thank god there are billions of potential tourist who don't know how bad it is.This must change.

11. Pick one and explain in 50 words or less:

A. The City’s policies attract an influx of homeless who would not otherwise come to Santa Monica.

B. The homeless come to Santa Monica for reasons outside the City’s control.

C. It is federal policy that has people in the parks.

Yes, our 'live and let live' policies attract lots of less then disiablle people here. and the City fails to help those who need help, like the mentally ill, so they stay a long time suffering on our streets. Shame on this City. The homeless come to Santa Monica for reasons outside the City’s control.

12. With which of the following statements do you agree most. Santa Monica's traffic problems are the direct result of,

A. City policies approved by the SMRR majority, including traffic calming, the development of the Promenade and the fostering of tourism.

B. Major developments -- such as the large office complexes in the city's industrial corridor -- approved in the mid-1980s by councils controlled by non-SMRR pro development factions.

C. Regional growth outside the control of the City Council.

SMRR policies and their approval of huge projects. Don't be foooled by the old song that in the mid-eighties others approved big builidngs -- they have all done it. The Promenade and tourism have nothing to do with our traffic problems.

13. With which statements do you agree. You can choose more than one.

Affordable housing:

A. Creates blight.

B. Pays back hotel and restaurant union workers for their political support and creates more tenants to vote for Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights.

C. Addresses a legitimate need, especially in Santa Monica.

Pays back hotel and restaurant union workers for their political support and creates more tenants to vote for Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights. YES

Addresses a legitimate need, especially in Santa Monica.YES

14. With which statements do you agree. You can pick more than one. Community input in planning and building design,

A. Improves Projects

B. Is overly skewed towards pleasing nearby neighbors as opposed to
meeting the interests of the community as a whole.

C. Unreasonably slows the process and is a way for opponents to eliminate new development.

D. Needs to be streamlined.

A. Improves Projects YES

B. Is overly skewed towards pleasing nearby neighbors as opposed to
meeting the interests of the community as a whole. NO

C. Unreasonably slows the process and is a way for opponents to
eliminate new development. NO

D. Needs to be streamlined. NO for Commercial YES for residential

15. With which statement do you agree most. Santa Monica tenants in rent-controlled units,

A. Need more protections from harassment by landlords eager to re-rent units at market rates.

B. Are being subsidized by landlords who can't charge fair rents and make
a profit.

C. No longer need strong rent control policies because vacancy decontrol has given landlords more opportunity to make a fair return.

D. Should not have majority control of the City Council.

A. Need more protections from harassment by landlords eager to re-rent
units at market rates.Do not need more right now.

B. Are being subsidized by landlords who can't charge fair rents and make
a profit. YES

C. No longer need strong rent control policies because vacancy decontrol
has given landlords more opportunity to make a fair return.NO

D. Should not have majority control of the City Council.YES/NO

16. In the past two years, the number of laws passed by the City Council has increased from 32 in 2002 to 41 last year. This is:

A. A reasonable response to the concerns of residents.NO

B. A council that tries to please everyone.NO

GENERAL QUESTIONS

17. What would you do to improve Santa Monica? (50 words or less)

Restore democracy and a voice for residents in City Hall.

18. What is your "wish list" for Santa Monica? (Maximum of 5 items)

Less growth of commercial properties, especially office buildings.
More parks without asphalt and low-income housing on the land like the 300+ units on the new Civic Center Park - some park!
More support for our kids.
More community events to build pride and togetherness.
Fewer bums on the streets while really helping the needy.

19. What is the best thing about Santa Monica? Climate

20. What is the worst thing about Santa Monica? Dishonest policies and politicians

21. What is your favorite place in Santa Monica? Your least favorite place? In 30 words or less give your reasons.

Favorite is my home.
Worst is the hodge-podge and neglected Mid-City area.

22. A measure on the November ballot calls for increasing the City's hotel bed tax. Do you support or oppose the measure?

I feel candidates should let the voter decide without telling them what to do.

23. Do you support the $135 million Santa Monica College bond measure on the November ballot?

Same answer.

24. An analysis by The Lookout found that Santa Monica spent $1,906 per resident to provide basic services in fiscal year 2003-04. By comparison, Culver City spent $1,349; Pasadena spent $1,244 and Torrance spent $1,005. Do you think the City can cut back on its spending or is spending the right amount? (See analysis)

I think we spend a fair amount per resident. Remember we spend over $8,000 per homeless person and what results do we see. More homeless.

25. Over the course of more than a century, Santa Monica has had many personalities, usually more than one at any given time depending where you are standing. A tony resort and haven for the rich and beautiful; a honky-tonk beach town known for the Pier and P.O.P. and Muscle Beach for everyone else; a blue-collar factory town and arsenal of democracy; the wide-open "Bay City" of Phillip Marlowe; a "leafy suburb"; a working-class city of dingbat apartments and little bungalows; a conservative bastion run by real estate and business interests; the "Peoples' Republic of Santa Monica"; and other historical realities you can probably think of, not to mention today's reality of regional center for retail, entertainment and white-collar employment. What historical era or personality of Santa Monica do you most identify with, and how does that relate to your vision of Santa Monica's future?

Easy, seaside beach community with people of all economic levels who treasure freedom of expression, children, our elders, art, music and set trends for the rest of the country to follow.