1. Name as it will appear on the ballot
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2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
3. Are you the incumbent? Yes No
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
5. How long have you resided in King County?
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12 years |
6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
CAMPAIGN CONTACTS
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Lippmann for City Council |
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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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2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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Seattle Mayor 1997, Seattle City Council 1997, 2001, 2006
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Attorney General, US House 7th
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In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:
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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During the last ten years as a political candidate, I have warned of public dangers and promoted positive civic alternatives to business-as-usual at City Hall. I have raised awareness of the dangers of mercury in childhood vaccines. In my 1997 campaign for Mayor, I helped keep Greg Nickels out of office for four years by helping Charlie Chong defeat him in the primary. I also advocated for passage of the original monorail initiative. Since then, I have continued to work as a public advocate and private attorney to develop solutions to our problems. By electing me now, you can move Seattle forward with constructive projects to address our unmet needs for sustainable development: § Energy: We need a pro-active energy policy to avert another energy crisis. Instead of cutting rates, we should capitalize City Light by segregating it from the rest of the budget, allowing its operating revenue to pay off its debt, enabling the financing of wind power partnerships and a $10 million pilot superconducting transmission project for needed new residential areas such as South Lake Union. § The Viaduct: The surface-only daydream writes off the western half of Seattle and will lead to gridlock downtown and on I-5. Delaying the plan for a new viaduct until chaos breaks out will just drive up costs and lead to a rushed, expensive and ugly replacement project. The $8 million study passed by the Council should be changed to also study a modern cable-stayed viaduct replacement, which will open up the waterfront, be an architectural monument, and fit within the State’s budget. § Transportation: Let’s re-build the old monorail as a pilot maglev project for a regional mass transit system. For $30 million, the monorail would once again become a symbol of the future, whisking residents and tourists silently at double speed up 5th Avenue. § Housing: Zoning laws need to be changed to address the crisis in affordable housing and to save the character of our neighborhoods. While limiting new construction single-family areas, we need to double the general height limit for apartments and condos from six to 12 or more stories. This would promote the use of concrete structures, which will last for centuries and save the forests. § HR 333: Three days after asking Jim McDermott to co-sponsor Dennis Kucinich’s bill to impeach Dick Cheney Jim went to the house for and announced his co-sponsorship. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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Integrity: Office holders need to be honest with the public. I have a lifelong reputation for speaking out on public issues for the betterment of society.
Intelligence: My broad range of experience in science, law, business, and politics give me a more universal perspective and enable me to relate to members of the public as individuals.
Indefatigability: Each year, I continue to raise important issues of concern to the public, and each year I gain more adherents, in terms of my vote totals. I am confident that the public will eventually come to trust me enough to elect me to office. |
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 years doing alternative energy research. 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 is abundantly clear to all reasonable people that we should be rapidly moving to renewable forms of energy. For years, I have been calling for 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, superconduction transmission, and battery development for plug-in hybrids. Furthermore, by marketing municipal energy bonds to citizens, we will not only capitalize our future production, but also provide a secure foundation for savings. 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 continue to be a national leader in promoting awareness of the dangers of mass vaccination. Over the past ten years, the percentage of parents in Seattle who quesiton vaccines has doubled from 10% to 20%, and consequently several lives have been saved.
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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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. Mayor Nickels has shown himself in need of a council that merely wont be a rubber stamp. Especially when a Mayor is as disgraced as Greg Nickels. Ten years ago when I opposed him in the race for Mayor, I recall his complaining that even with a quarter million dollar family income, he couldn't afford adequate day care. Now we know what he meant. No amount of money can make up for a defective parent, as is evident from the Mayor's son recent arrest for skimming from casinos. Or sending his wife on a $46,000 junket to Ireland. Being such damaged goods himself, he is in no position to reign in brutality within the police department. In such a compromised state, he cannot be but misguided in such policies as trying to wipe out musical culture and other forms of nightlife, which tend to promote socialization, which if left undisturbed will lead to a more peaceful future. |
EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY
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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B.S. Physics, NYU 1981, M.A. Physics JHU 1984, Ph.D. Phyiscs, JHU 1989, J.D. UW, 1998 |
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 newsletters and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.
Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Jason Thibedeau
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: (425) 671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org