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A CLEAR CHOICE FOR VOTERS

CA Senate District 36:
 

VS.

compare the candidate

MARK HANSON

VS.

CAMPAIGN FUNDING:

Individual donors and small businesses.
 

INTEREST GROUP TIES:

Labor Council (supports needs of workers and their families) Habitat for Humanity Natural Resources Defense Council Sierra Club






EDUCATION:

BA, 2 MA’s, and a PhD Teacher of the Year (twice)

GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE

State Youth Council California Veterans Work Group CA Workforce Investment Committees San Diego Workforce Partnership Board Lakeside Planning Group

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Founded Heartland Foundation

(a charitable organization)

On 10 boards and community groups

BUSINESS LEADERSHIP:

Supports small business tax relief. Founder, San Diego chapter LMI (Leadership Management International) Funded grants for small businesses (through Heartland Foundation)

FINANCIAL EXPERTISE:

Securities broker, grant writer Small business owner

JOBS DEVELOPMENT:

Created many good-paying jobs

 

MARK HANSON

COMMUNITY PROTECTION

(after Cedar Fires):

Helped wildfire victims

  • Arranged donations of vehicles

     

  • Offered workshops for fire survivors

CONSUMER PROTECTION:

Supports reasonable balance between rights of consumers and businesses.










ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH:

  • Supports clean air and water protections

     

  • Has plan for energy independence

     

  • Supports alternative energy production

     

  • Formed Project Preservation to protect watershed and wildlife corridors.

     

  • Formed Project Healthcare for medical awareness and to train healthcare workers.

     

  • Supports universal health care coverage


EDUCATION:

  • Strong supporter of public education

     

  • Favors higher standards and work ethic

     

  • Has plan for student internships and apprenticeships with labor and business.

SENIORS & WORKING FAMILIES:

  • Will protect our senior citizens

     

  • Helps working families through Labor Council and charitable organizations.

WOMEN’S & MINORITY RIGHTS:

  • Supports equality and protection for women and minorities.

     

  • Chaired Human Relations Task Force

     

  • Formed Project Awareness to fund multi- cultural events and seminars.


     

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Supports reasonable protections for pets, livestock, and wildlife.

with the incumbent

D. HOLLINGSWORTH

CAMPAIGN FUNDING:

Mostly special interests
(insurance, chemical, agri-business and oil)

INTEREST GROUP TIES:

Chair of American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC),
(a front group for corporate interests, sponsors bills
that are anti-consumer, anti-labor, anti-environment)
 

See: http://www.alecwatch.org/

EDUCATION:

Some college; no degree


GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE

Lobbyist for Riverside Farm Bureau State Assembly State Senator, District 36



COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Headed Quail International





BUSINESS LEADERSHIP:

Supports corporate welfare for big corporations such as Exxon-Mobile and Wal-Mart. Voted for corporate interests 100% of the time.



FINANCIAL EXPERTISE:

Vice Chair, Senate Budget & Fiscal Review committee

JOBS DEVELOPMENT:

None.


 

D. HOLLINGSWORTH

COMMUNITY PROTECTION

(after Cedar Fires):

Sided with insurance companies (voted against bill to extend fire victims’ temporary housing coverage)





CONSUMER PROTECTION:

  • Voted against consumer protections 93%

     

  • Opposed bill to stop predatory lending

     

  • Opposed protection against identity theft

     

ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH:

  • 0% record on environmental protection.

     

  • Supports big oil and gas interests.

     

  • Lobbied to abolish Endangered Species Act

     

  • Sponsored bills to hunt in state parks and to import endangered species products

     

  • Opposed limiting arsenic levels in water

     

  • Supports experimental pesticides in schools

     

  • Opposed California Healthy Kids Fund


EDUCATION:

  • Opposed School Spending Accountability

     

  • Supports public funds for charter schools.

     

  • Tried to exempt charter schools from building and safety codes.



SENIORS & WORKING FAMILIES:

Voted against senior interests 95% Voted against working families 97%





WOMEN’S & MINORITY RIGHTS:

Voted against women’s interests 87-93%

  • Voted for insurance discrimination

     

  • Opposed AB478, to ban shackling legs of pregnant women prisoners in labor

     

  • Opposed AB22, human trafficking a crime.

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Voted 100% against bills to provide humane treatment of animals