Lindblad for City Council - Cambio con Jack

, Mass transit, Affordable housing, Watershed revitalization, Green-registered for twenty years-four-in-a-row Legislative aspirant, Green Party of Los Angeles County Council endorsed Jack Lindblad is your candidate, never accepting any corporate 'donations', bringing Green values to public policy. Our Campaign resounded with East San Fernando Valley Voters in 2010, garnering 22% of the Vote, second highest percentage for California Legislative Office by any Alternative Party, ever. We need to step up to the plate, pull out all stops and kickstart our endorsed candidate's campaign with $1000 now, provided IN time to gather 3000 signatures before March 7, 2014. We need to fund our Campaign Now! We need East San Fernando Valley residing 18th State Senate registered voters to circulate petitions and gather signatures. Funds are needed now for brochure/postcards for circulators to provide signers. Funds are needed by March 2014 for any signatures short of covering the Filing Fee and an unknown cost of the critical 250 word ballot statement. A new fee to keep the campaign open is $50 annually. We must win the 18th District for The People from these past decades of effort. Award-winning Architect/CommunityPlanner/Author/Neighborhood Councilmember, making four bids for Legislative office in-a-row, Party-endorsed candidate Jack Lindblad: Resounded with East San Fernando Valley Voters in 2010, garnering 22% of the Vote for the working class 39th Assembly seat. Advanced Food security with supporting fresh produce grown in local community gardens and edible forest permaculture in our lower, urbanized Pacoima-Tujunga watershed providing entrepreneurial opportunities for marginalized folks. LADWP adopted Tujunga Spreading Ground Sediment management strategies following our submitted Public Comments arguing for mechanical conveyance over 170,000 truck trips to protect quality of life. Advanced Big Tujunga and Pacoima Reservoir cleanout strategy of moving sediment upstream to enhance Watershed resource conservation and replenishment rather than degrading quality of life by transporting and deposition of sediment in communities. Engaged the public to push for Light Rail mass transit along Van Nuys Boulevard, an initiative picked up by Metro to usher Transit oriented development in historic commercial cores to help meet California’s Climate 2020 Mandate to lower GHG by 1/3 based on 1990 levels and to attain a 1/3 renewable energy economy. In 2008, 2010 and 2012, our Campaign was for our 39jth Assembly seat. We are located in the 18th State Senate District for this cycles' Winning Campaign! Jack Lindblad was the Peace and Freedom Party nominee for a 1990 run for Assembly and a Congressional run in 1992. Tagline
Award-winning Architect and Urban Planner Lindblad campaigns on a Green-values platform for a carbon-neutral, re-localized, 100% renewable energy, steady state economy, basing development on bio-regional determinism, by forming public policy on accepted science, not developers. Introduction
Having gathered 1341 registered voter signatures to gain ballot access in 2012, our campaign is ramping up to securing 3000 such signatures for winning the 18th California Senate seat in 2014. Cambio Con Jack! Green Jobs New Deal – Fully Funded Education for All – Universal Single-Payer Quality Affordable Health Care – Quality of Life – Steady-state economy – 100% Renewable energy economy – Net-zero energy – Live Green Values – Vote Green Party – Stop Nepotic Politics – Save Our Neighborhoods – Rights, not Raids – Re-localize water, energy, food, materials, finance – Revitalize Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed – Stop Fracking! Occupation: Architect/Urban Planner/Community Organizer/Party County Councilmember/Arleta and Panorama City Neighborhood Council Boardmembers
Masters degree in Architecture, Texas A & M University with an Outpatient Healthcare Facility thesis. University of Washington at Seattle, Bachelors degree in Environmental Design and a Yearly Award for High Scholastic Achievement. Pioneered a mix of services as a building type: Diagnostic & Treatment Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Centers & MRI Facilities. Used day-lighting tech. Member of the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council. Coro Neighborhood Leadership Development Program Graduate 2003. Received an American Institute of Architects Innovative Cities Award, AIA President’s Award, AIA Sustainable Communities Award, San Fernando Valley Business Journal Community Award, SFV AIA 2005 Component Excellence Award for the Panorama City Urban Design Team Revitalization Study/Plan.
“Conflict Resolution Training-Mending Human Relations” sponsored by L.A. City Human Relations Commission, National Conference for Community and Justice. Who’s Who in America
My award-winning sustainable urban design and architecture practice has a healthcare facility emphasis. The Lindblad Campaign drew 22% of the vote for California’s 39th State Assembly District seat in 2010 on the Green ticket, in a back-to-back contests and one-on-one rematch with the incumbent, expanding on the 8.1% of the vote in 2008, among the top showing for alternative parties. Following up 2010, my campaign was set to place in the Top Two June 2012 election. Targeted (business as usual) by a corrupt elected intent on losing in November who bought two Republicans to run and split they did, my vote three ways, my Campaign was denied appearing on the November 2012 ballot. Jobs for everyone who needs one. Restoration of the California Dream for all students. Environmental Justice for all by insuring quality of life. My term in California’s State Senate will advance these moral imperatives in the Legislature to balance the budget, manage multiple collapses, adapting to worsening catastrophes from ecological collapse. A member of Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council, my efforts involve: supporting community grass-root causes, forming and serving on neighborhood councils, co-authoring sustainable community plans, stopping gentrification, revitalizing the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed, assisting in the ‘No on B’ win to provide unfettered solar power to stakeholders. Green New Deal, Jobs, Quality of Life, Fully Funded Public Education – the California Dream for All. Vox Populi is coming to Sacramento! Politics are dominated by greed, corporatism, militarism and the narrow two-party duopoly. This has led humanity to ecological collapse and social and economic inequity. At age 61, my run for our Senate seat focuses on bringing a transition to a relocalized, green-jobs, carbon-neutral, 100% renewable, net-zero-energy, steady-state economy – arising from the financial meltdown and ongoing ‘Great Disruption’ – replacing the failed, fossil fuel, carbon-based, “business-as-usual” growth economy, whether in politics or my architecture practice, to lessen the certainty of looming human extinction. The Architecture-Engineering-Construction energy wedge contributes 40% of greenhouse gases. My decision was to set myself apart from that problem of adding to Extinction by producing buildings for clients, who, defined by the market, are only interested in their profits rather than necessary measures to reduce carbon footprint to zero. We are about creating an enterprising, sustainable, resilient marketplace based on accepted science, not existing self-absorbed interests like developers and the untoward influence they throttle and redirect public policy with. Henry A. Giroux captures my concern to seek public office to replace the corporate-encumbered insider:

“The social and economic collapse we are now experiencing was preceded by a moral and political collapse, largely caused by a political class and a formative culture deeply insensitive to its social and ethical responsibilities.”
What has prepared me to be our District’s Independent Senator in the Legislature? Taking no corporate donations nor the beholdence that is part of the bargain, being an effective squeaky wheel in advocacies for health-care patient rights against Big Insurance, advocating for local water reliance, seeing success in the award-winning Panorama City commercial area revitalization plan not only for Panorama City serving up three criteria for sustainable development: transit-oriented, mixed-use and pedestrian-oriented- forming SB 375 – to meet California’s Climate Change 2020 mandate, AB 32, to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels and achieve at least 1/3 renewable energy economy, experience of meeting project budgets and payroll as a small business, seeing Light Rail along Van Nuys Boulevard, seeing improvements in the quality life for stakeholders in the East San Fernando Valley as Arleta and Panorama City Neighborhood Council Board member and as Community Improvement Committee Chair. Sizable inroads in coalition politics promise to be realized by the Lindblad Campaign in racking up more the sum of the voter totals of the smaller parties, building on the 8.06% earned in our 2008 campaign, representing 1600% of the Green Party registered base, ranking at the top of the results of other contests where Greens ran. Reaching across partisan lines augers well for the potential of electability to the State Senate and Independent thinking with bridge-building resulting once in office. By learning from what worked in our 2012, 2010 and 2008 efforts, my Campaign is organizing an effort commensurate to win in 2014! Issues that my Campaign articulates will form the legislative agenda: locally-based, time-tested in 2012, 2010 and 2008 efforts, and relevant to 18th District constituents:

Social justice issues are inextricably tied to environmental justice and must be part of the environmental agenda. Once elected and seated, Lindblad will support and advance legislation to:

one: Save our Neighborhoods! – By lessening the most catastrophic effects of global warming, promote a healthy environment, see a transition to a relocalized, green-collar, steady-state economy, promote sustainable living, fully fund (with inclusion in the stimulus plan) our 32 District-wide contaminated ground water cleanup projects, implement Greenways per Los Angeles 1968 Citywide Plan, Los Angeles River rewilding and cessation of neighborhood sold off to speculators for protecting neighborhood integrity – basing development on bio-regional determinism, not developers, by decentralizing and relocalizing water resources, energy, material goods and food production: Lower impact development with restoration of the Pacoima-Tujunga watershed – with more parks – with hiking,biking, and horse trails along the Los Angeles River washes. Social Justice! Ecological wisdom! two: Ensure Health care is a Right, not a privilege! – By guaranteeing quality universal single payer healthcare for all that will save 30% over the current privatized model. three: Stop Nepotic, Payola Politics! Stop allowing entrenched electeds ruining government by running government like their for-profit business. By banning all corporatist lobbying and campaign spending with full implementation of public financing of elections and formation of a District-wide Legislative council. Grassroots Democracy! four: Protect Rights – not Raids! – By asserting Human Dignity, building community and fair Immigration rights by immediately ending immigration raids and deportation. By reversing a long term trend of spending on prisons over education. by early childhood care, education, mentoring and sports to prevent gang violence. Educate – not Incarcerate! Non-violence! Respect for Diversity! five: Balance the budget on time! By a split roll amendment to Proposition 13 for business property to be assessed on a ‘mark-to-market’ every ten years and a Green New Deal, scuttling the 2/3 requirement in favor of 60% required for budget passage, a smaller,manageable correctional system, and a relocalization of power from Sacramento to communities. Budgetary responsibility. Personal and Global Responsibility! What are Lindblad’s legislative proposals to answer continuing economic collapse? The regressive tax policy must be changed as part of the initiatives to transition to a green jobs, renewable energy economy and to steer away from unregulated financial environments. Reduce inflationary spiral on lower income workforce by a phased elimination of state tax on wages and salary and sales tax compensated with a graduated tax rate on gross rents, gross business receipts and resource-based, carbon taxes. Financial institutions must be held responsible for their lending abuses. Curb unsustainable speculative urban sprawl, gentrification, mansionification through tax incentives by replacing tax on building improvements with tax on land. By doing so, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, Mixed income, mixed-use, smart, in-fill community development based on net zero energy (generating on-site renewable power) – will help meet the mission of AB 32 – encouraged with certified renewable energy credits- such as feed-in-tariffs. The overall objective for the rate-payer is to ‘get off the grid’ by achieving net-zero-energy performance. Change tax policy to close developer loopholes to increase public coffers. Represent people and neighborhood interests by removing undue developer and corporate lobbyist influence over land-use planning decisions. Environmental Justice! Community-Based Economics! Future Focus/Sustainability! six: Mass transit! New bus lines and light rail along Van Nuys Boulevard connecting intermodal transportation hubs from Metro’s Orange Line to San Fernando Sylmar Amtrak/Metrolink. Decentralization! and seven: New Mission Community College community-based campuses and expansion of curriculum into four-year, state university accreditation and status. 100,000 well-qualified students are shut out from the California University system. Feminism! live ten key values: four pillars in Green Parties worldwide: Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Grassroots Democracy, Nonviolence, and six making three paired values in US Green Parties: (Decentralization, Community-Based Economics), (Feminism – post-patriarchal values, Respect for Diversity), (Personal and Global Responsibility, Future Focus/Sustainability). And add these supporting values to my campaign platform: Steady-state economy. Relocalization. 100% renewable energy economy. Net-zero-energy. No economic interest, under no circumstance, can be above the reverence of life. Principles before personalities. Green New Deal. Green Jobs. Accepts no corporate donations. Accepts donations only from human beings. The Elephant in the Room cannot be ignored in initiatives coming from the California Legislature – the inextricably entwined collapses of the world economy and collapses of ecological services forcing mass urban dislocations, plant and animal extinctions and, sooner than later – human extinction. How tax policy is structured will be the litmus test in successfully addressing the looming twin eco collapses. To avert looming extinction, government must face the direct link between the steep upward curve of unregulated financial profiteering and the equally steep curve of the uncontrolled rate of its component rapacious consumptive-driven, greed-caused resulting greenhouse gas emissions. Otherwise, the failed-growth economy-caused climate change spirals into complete planetary collapses of ecological services. Jack Lindblad

Lindblad for Senate 2014
Independent (Green registered) Candidate for California State Senate 18th District. We will get 3000 District registered voter signatures to gain ballot status! Lindblad Architects Office
Owner/Sole Practitioner, 1982 – present

Lindblad for Assembly 2012 and 2010 and 2008
Independent (Green registered) Candidate for California Assembly 39th District. Achieved 22% of the vote in 2010, 8% in 2012 in a corrupt crowded field, 8.1% in 2008! Lindblad for Congress 1992
Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for US Congress 24th District, Achieved 5.4% of the vote! Lindblad for Assembly 1990
Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for California Assembly 43rd District, Achieved 4.5% of the vote! Bragging rights
Delivered Metro’s ongoing DEIR of Light Rail on Van Nuys Boulevard after Campaigning for Light Rail along Van Nuys Boulevard in my 2010 and 2012 electoral efforts!