2006 Candidate Questionnaire
SECTION I
BASIC CANDIDATE INFORMATION
1. Name as it will appear on the ballot
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First Name |
Middle Initial or Nick Name |
Last Name |
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Stan |
Lippmann |
2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
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City Council Position 9 |
3. Are you the incumbent? Yes No
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
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11 years |
5. How long have you resided in King County?
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11 years |
6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
CAMPAIGN CONTACTS
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Campaign Name: |
Lippmann for City Council |
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Address: |
2033 6th Ave, Suite 920 |
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City/State/Zip: |
Seattle, WA 98121 |
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Campaign Phone: |
206-372-7594 |
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Campaign Fax: |
206-442-1405 |
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Campaign E-mail: |
stan@stanforcity.org |
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Campaign Website: |
www.stanforcity.org |
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POLITICAL BACKGROUND
1. Beginning with the most recent position, please list public offices which you have held. Include positions on appointive Boards or Commissions.
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Elective or Appointive? |
Dates Held |
Leadership Role (if any) |
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2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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Seattle Mayor, Seattle City Council
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1997, 1999 & 2001
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Attorney General, US House 7th
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2000, 1998, 2002, 2004
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Monorail Board
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2003,2005
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SECTION III
In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:
- Involvement: What has the candidate done previously in family, neighborhood, community, volunteer work, employment or public life to suggest readiness to accomplish challenging objectives? How do these activities demonstrate readiness for the challenges unique to the office sought?
- Effectiveness: Has the candidate demonstrated promise of being productive in the office sought? Has the candidate shown the ability to work with other people?
- Character: Do the candidate's personal traits show the ability to take on the responsibilities of campaigning for and holding the public office she or he is seeking? Is the candidate a leader, participant or observer? Is the candidate trustworthy, reliable and candid?
- Knowledge: Has the candidate demonstrated the willingness and ability to learn and adapt? Does the candidate understand the duties and challenges of the office sought? Does the candidate have a firm grasp of the issues important to his or her constituency and their potential effects?
1. In a page or less, why are you running for this office? (Note: the interview committee will be given a copy of this statement before your interview; at the beginning of your interview you will have the opportunity to expand on this statement in any way you wish.)
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In the period of history upon which we are entering, we are going to need a generation of local leadership who actually has the knowledge to enable us to have a self-generating local economy. Our national security policies have set our nation on a course of self-destruction. Instead of spending the necessary hundreds of billions per year on energy, water, and transportation infrastructure, we spend more than the rest of the world on a war machine. The tools of mass media brainwashing have so far and kept the population under control through fear tactics, but these policies will fail in the near term due to the information technology revolution, which is undermining this control. In the resulting crisis, such basic elements of the economy such as a stable currency will be called into question. The office of Seattle City Council cannot directly avert this coming crisis, but it is necessary to have members there who are able to anticipate and plan for dealing with it. With my backgrounds in physics and law, I have been able to demonstrate through my past campaigns that I have the necessary awareness to plan for a vibrant local economy, regardless of what is going to happen elsewhere, and this would enable Seattle to set a positive example for the rest of the country. An example, which is directly relevant to current circumstances, can serve as an illustration: Back in 1999, I recall sitting next to Heidi Wills at a candidate debate at SSCC. I warned the voters that there was going to be an energy crisis in the near term, and that the City needed to secure our hydro rights which had been foolishly thrown away by City Light for miniscule short term savings, and to get busy building wind turbines which could produce for less than baseline rates. Ms. Wills looked puzzled by my comments. Nonetheless, after she won her seat and I lost mine, she was placed in charge of City Light oversight, and I sent her a detailed explanation of the brewing energy crisis, to which she did not respond. Within a year, the energy crisis hit and we all lost more than half a billion dollars by having to buy energy on the spot market. The same short-term thinking still dominates the City, as indicated by the Mayor’s recent plan to cut rates. The Mayor is ignoring that our Bonneville contract will expire in five years, which may lead to a doubling in the cost of our hydropower rates, which will necessarily lead to another large increase in our electricity bills. Instead of cutting rates now, we should be using the capital being collectively accumulated and investing in alternative production in the form of wind turbines on the east side of the Cascades. We should be encouraging residents to invest in future production in the form of electricity futures, which can serve as an alternate form of money should the dollar fail. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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I have always maintained my belief that the truth will set us free. I have endured hardships as a result. I began my public career running for Mayor in 1997 because the University of Washington forced me to take an experimental vaccine in order to register for Law School which nearly fatally injured me. When I realized that I was not the only one being so injured, I felt it important enough to warn the public of this hidden danger that I spent half of my savings to get this message out. I have gained a reputation as a leader in this movement, and the message has been absorbed by many parents in the region who no longer believe that they should blindly allow the State medical establishment to shoot dozens of life threatening vaccines into their children’s’ arms, which contain mutant live viruses and other toxins such as mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde. My estimate of 15,000 innocent children so killed each year in this country has held up as accurate. Translated locally, a 10% drop in parents believing the State’s propaganda saves about three children a year. Over the past nine years there are probably about 3 children within Seattle who have been spared death as a result of my actions over this time period. I have also spent my time and money seeing to other better outcomes for the City. In 1997, I first knocked Mayor Nickels out of the race by pointing out his corrupt nature, throwing the primary to Chong. My dialogue with Schell caused him to flip to support of the Monorail Initiative. This by itself was enough to tilt it in favor of passage, though Schell broke his promise on election night. Four years later when he was losing to Nickels, he wondered why. I tried next to save the project from the corrupt management process which had control of the project under Nickels, pointing out in the 2003 Monorail Board race that the project was off course due to the insiders that the City and County had appointed. My warnings went unheeded, and in the 2005 race I helped drive the nail in the coffin of the hijacked project. |
3. Please describe in sufficient detail, one to three accomplishments or contributions of which you are most proud. These examples should illustrate effective skills and capabilities you think apply to the office you are seeking. These accomplishments may have occurred at any time in your personal, professional, or public life.
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Before moving to Seattle in 1995, I spent 15 year doing alternative energy research, in particular I studied the atomic physics of fusion-power relevant plasmas. I was motivated in the late 1970’s by the evident facts of global warming, global warfare, and social atomism due to having a fossil fuel based economy. Now it should be abundantly clear to all that these are the facts of life, and that if it were not for the crony capitalism under which we live, we would be rapidly moving to renewable forms of energy. For years, I have been calling for rapid development of wind power, which can supply most of our baseline needs. Lately, the development of batteries and solar photovoltaic cells is on the threshold of radical improvement in economic efficiency, so that in a few years we have rooftop systems even in Seattle that will power our homes and cars. As the City Councilmember overseeing City Light, I will move to enable citizen investment in City Light, so that we can capitalize wind farm, rooftop solar, and battery development for plug-in hybrids. Furthermore, by marketing energy futures to citizens, we will not only capitalize our future production, but also provide a secure foundation for savings. I believe that the United States is bankrupt, with the national debt having risen $3 trillion in the past five years, and unfunded liabilities having risen by $20 trillion in the same period. With the housing bubble imploding and global warfare on the march, it seems like only a matter of time before the dollar collapses and we here in Washington are going to have to fend for ourselves in the world. By fully developing wind, solar, and wave power resources, starting with a capitalization of City Light, we will have the basis for a new export economy, and a marker for value to use in place of fiat Federal Reserve notes. For example, at $.10/kWhr, a old US dollar can replaced with a new one backed by 10 kWhrs instead of the worthless full faith and credit of the US. There are also breakthroughs in maglev technology, which enable a new honest start and citywide mass transit. The routes I have laid out in prior campaigns can be now done less expensively and obtrusively. |
4. Please list or describe your current and past activities in the community in which you have acquired skills that relate to the office you seek. Include your role in the activity and the year(s) in which you were involved. Involvement consists of many areas such as family, neighborhood, community, employment, or public life.
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I have contributed to the potential cleanup of King County elections through the modification of the County Charter to elect a County auditor. In the 2004 election, Elections Director Dean Logan, who refused to count the votes in an election, which I in all likelihood would have won for 7th District Libertarian, cheated me off the ballot. I had to sue Dean Logan after the primary for not counting votes, and then had to challenge the election at the State Supreme Court by suing Sam Reed for passing an emergency WAC which undermined the rule of law of write-in candidacies in this state. My battle with Attorney General Gregoire after the primary upset her balance and nearly cost her the election, but she turned around and used my legal framework for the purpose of seizing power over Dino Rossi. As in other battles I have waged, the machinery of the State is being challenged for the public good and will hopefully lead someday to allow us all to move forward into a more self-governing era.
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- Please describe the duties of the office you seek. Which are the most important duties and why?
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The City Council is the legislative arm of our local government. In particular the Council votes on a budget that the Mayor is supposed to implement. The better the Council does its job, the less discretion is left in the hands of the Mayor, who driven by the nature of his job to build a personal political empire around himself. In particular with this Mayor, who has grandiose plans, which we can’t afford, for the waterfront as version of his edifice complex, there needs to be a sane check on his vision by an enlightened City Council. Although something eventually needs to be done about the viaduct, we simply can’t afford to replace it at present, and although it might lead to fatalities during an earthquake, this risk has to be rationally compared to the risks to life of a failed local economy in terms of violent crime, addiction, and other forms of increased morbidity and mortality. Instead we need to build a new economic base in the form of wind farms. Instead of spending $4 billion on the Mayor’s vision, City light could purchase a new installed base of 1200 MW average electrical production. At a wholesale market rate of $75 per MWhr, or $90,000 per 1200 MWhr continuous, with 8,760 hours in a year, $90,000 per hour would yield about $750 million a year in marketable power, or about $500 million per year each year for investment in the city after deducting $250 million per year to pay off the $4 billion in debt. This could then pay for the Mayor’s Big Dig and such other necessary investments such as in an urban maglev mass transit system.
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EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY
FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report is distributed to voters in print and/or on our website. It includes a summary of the candidate’s education. Please summarize your education in 120 characters (letters, punctuation, and space all combined). The League will delete material that exceeds the space limit by beginning with the last entry. Suggested order is (degree) (subject) (school) (year, if desired).
Note: If this question is left blank the League will not include education information in your candidate profile.
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J.D. Law, UW, 1998, Ph.D., Physics, Johns Hopkins U., 1989, B.S., Physics, New York U., 1981. |
CIVIC INVOLVEMENT SUMMARY
FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report also includes a summary of each candidate’s civic involvement. Please summarize your civic involvement in the space below. We will make every attempt to include the information in the Candidate Evaluation Report as submitted. Due to space restrictions in the Report, your response is limited to 500 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces all combined). It is important that you list your involvement beginning with the most important and ending with the least important. If you exceed the length of response permitted, or if the League should find it necessary to shorten responses for publication purposes, deletions will be made beginning with the last item listed.
Note: This information will appear verbatim on the League’s Candidate Evaluation Report. If this question is left blank, the Municipal League will not include information on your civic involvement in the Report.
Check here if you would like the Municipal League to copy the first 500 characters from Question 4 to paste into this section.
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Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (cec@munileague.org). Mail and fax numbers are listed below. If the League has not contacted you to schedule an interview, please call the League office at your earliest convenience.
Don’t forget to send the following to the Municipal League: a resume, a photo, campaign literature, and, if you are an incumbent, constituent newsletter and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION AND GOOD LUCK IN YOUR CAMPAIGN!
THE MUNICIPAL LEAGUE OF KING COUNTY
Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Jennifer DiGiacomo
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: 425-671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org