Candidate for State Assembly, District 19

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KEITH BOGDON

My occupation is Biotech Marketing Consultant.

My qualifications are:

As someone who grew up on the Westside, graduated from Lowell High School in 1989, and returned to the City in 1999 to raise a family and begin a career in biotech, I’ve witnessed along with you the gradual decline of our quality of life.

Our middle-income and working families and long-time residents on fixed-incomes are fleeing the area. They are escaping the skyrocketing costs for housing, goods, and services, rampant homelessness, car break-ins, gridlock, empty storefronts, and a crumbling infrastructure.

The threadbare “solutions” of the past from Sacramento are failing us. Too often they are dictated by special interests vested in the status quo. Indeed, many of the recent proposals are only making matters worse:

• We don’t need top-down mandates -- such as SB-827 -- from Sacramento and unelected regional agencies taking away local control while dictating zoning and housing density decisions best left to city planners and our neighborhoods;

• We don’t need higher taxes and increased regulations driving local merchants out of business; and

• When we approve taxes to fix our roads or build more reservoirs, let’s ensure the monies raised are quickly and efficiently spent on their intended purposes.

It’s time for change! As your new Assemblymember, with your help, we’ll bring common sense solutions to restore our quality of life.

You can visit my website www.bogdonforassembly.com to learn more about my campaign. Please donate on-line so we can reach more voters.

I’m endorsed by the San Francisco and San Mateo Republican Parties and hope to earn your vote on November 6th.

Keith Bogdon

PHIL TING

My occupation is Assemblymember.

My qualifications are:

California can do so much more to create affordable housing, reduce homelessness, protect our environment, address traffic gridlock and build an economy that works for everyone. And we need to do it while being mindful that tax revenues are not unlimited and we could face a recession at any time.

That’s why I am proud to have worked as the Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee to shape balanced budgets that invest in our future while still growing our Rainy Day fund. Budgets are a reflection of our values, and the budgets I have drafted for California have reflected our community’s core values, like:

Investing in our future by making community college free for first year students.

Building more affordable housing and protecting tenants from evictions.

Making sure we can protect our quality of life with significant new investments in roads and transit to address our terrible traffic. These new investments make our economy stronger and our lives easier, and they create high-wage jobs.

Growing an economy that is fair to everyone by making sure we increase our support for the number one engine of economic equality – great public schools.

My wife Susan and I are raising two wonderful daughters. I think about them before every vote – remembering that we are all working today to create a better future.

I’m proud to have won the support of Firefighters, the Sierra Club and many others. I hope you will join in support of our campaign at www.PhilTing.com.

Phil Ting