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The New Democrat: February 2016 TThhee NNeeww DDeemmooccrraatt A Publication of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition (PDC) February 2016 Mark Your Strong contenders for Assemblymember Rich Calendar! Gordon’s assembly seat to Sunday, February 21 attend the PDC Annual 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Meeting: AD-24 Democratic PDC/PYD ANNUAL Candidate Forum MEETING Los Altos Youth Center, 1 North San Antonio You are invited to the PDC/PYD ANNUAL MEETING on Where: Sunday, February 21, from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Los Altos Road, Los Altos 94022 Youth Center, 1 North San Antonio Road, Los Altos to meet the Program: A forum will be held between the AD 24 declared AD-24 Democratic Candidates, hear their views and candidates and moderated by Sen. Jerry Hill. ask your questions. Lunch is provided. Tickets are $5 for members of the public; free for (newly-registered) PDC SEE THE ARTICLE ON THIS PAGE * members! RSVP at www.peninsulademocrats.com. FOR MORE INFORMATION! With current AD-24 Assemblymember Rich Gordon termed out in 2016, PDC members have stepped forward to fill some Sunday March 20, 2016 - 4 to 6 pm Los Altos Hills pretty big shoes. AD-24 includes the communities of North Fair Climate Change, Local Challenges & Solutions Oaks, Atherton, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Woodside, Portola A Discussion with Community Environmental Experts Valley, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, a portion of Cupertino, and the San Mateo County SEE PAGE 7 for more information. Coastside – from El Granada to the Santa Cruz County border. As of press deadlines, in alphabetical order beginning with PDC members , following are highlighted qualifications of The Century Club on the declared AD-24 Democratic Candidates as drawn from their website profiles. Paris Conference SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE / CLEAN ENERGY by PDC Member Herb Engstrom INVESTOR JOSH BECKER At the January meeting of the Century Club Jesse Simons, the Chief of Staff of the national Sierra Club spoke on the recently Josh Becker is a Green Energy concluded Paris conference on climate change. He opened by Entrepreneur who for over 20 years noting that there was both good news and bad news. has worked at the nexus of First the good news. There were three important results of the community activism, technology, conference: 1) The number of attendee nations was about 200, environmentalism, and social justice. and they all agreed that anthropogenic global warming was a He has broad volunteer experience serious problem. All must contribute to a solution. 2) They in public service. Josh was an agreed to a target of limiting warming to 1.5 C° above the organizer for MassPIRG at Williams historical average. 3) Although individual nations are allowed to College where he supported passage set their own goals, they are all required to report progress of the Massachusetts 1989 Toxic Use toward their goals periodically. Reduction Act, a national model for There is more. The prices of clean energy -- solar panels, wind monitoring and reducing toxic waste generators, and batteries -- have dropped precipitously to the production; worked as on the point where clean energy is becoming competitive with fossil fuels. campaign staff of Democratic congressional candidates and In the past the non-industrialized countries have argued that served on the staff of U.S. Representatives Howard Berman (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 4) The New Democrat 2 February 2016 Honoring Jaime Escalante By Carol Kuiper President’s Column Nicole Fernandez It's time for me to admit something I've held in for a little while: I am not super enthused about Hillary Clinton's candidacy for president. She is everything my party and my country needs. She's smart, she's decisive, she's experienced. She is well-versed in domestic policy and international policy, has clear legislative priorities, and a proven track record as a legislator and a member of the Cabinet. In all likelihood, Secretary Clinton will be our country's first female president – I just can't get excited about it. (I EDUCATOR/ FOREVER/USA. This is the caption under a want to make sure that I note that just because I am dispassionate 2016 stamp honoring JAIME ESCALANTE, high school math about Secretary Clinton does not automatically make me a teacher and Bolivian immigrant, who taught from 1974-1991 diehard Senator Bernie Sanders fan.) at Garfield High School, a Los Angeles inner-city school. But you know that likeability problem The Washington Post , Although in his 60s when he moved to Northern California, Jezebel , Slate , and every other newspaper and blog have Escalante taught from 1992-1998 at Hiram Johnson High expounded on? I'm one of those people who thinks she is – to School in Sacramento, where he continued to expect quote President Obama - “likeable enough,” but I'm mostly excellence from his students. apathetic to her campaign in general. I wish there was something You may remember the inspiring 1988 film, “Stand and in her with which I could identify. As someone who has followed Deliver”, starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante. The politics since high school (almost 15 years ago), she's just never film shows Escalante not only teaching math, but also building been one of my political idols. (And at this point, I'm sure some a first-class math program with high rates of student success on of you are grousing about the fact that capability, not likeability, the Advanced Placement calculus exam, although most of his should be the determining factor in what makes a good students were recent immigrants or from struggling families. It candidate. I'm not disagreeing with you.) also reveals the personal commitment Escalante felt for his A New York Times article indicates that Mrs. Clinton is having students, expressed in his personal gifts of time, talent, energy an exceedingly difficult time garnering the support of millennial and belief given quietly, freely and far beyond the school day. women (“Moms and Daughters Debate Gender Factor in Hillary In a Sacramento Bee interview when asked how he Clinton's Bid,” 12/12/15). But recently, Secretary Clinton and her continued to inspire students’ remarkable achievement, campaign have been doing a superior job in showing the lighter Escalante said, “When students are expected to work hard, side of her personality based on her numerous appearances on they will usually rise to the occasion, devote themselves to the Saturday Night Live and talk shows. She's been playing up her task and do the work.” competence and experience in her debate appearances, and Escalante’s story has a number of lessons reminding us that above all, I think she will make a most excellent Commander-in- our country’s greatness continues to be built on the Chief. contributions of immigrants, that individual achievement is Growing up, my nana told me that sometimes the best things sparked by “ganas”—desire to achieve—and that teachers for you tasted the worst. This was usually in reference to the often ignite that spark in students that fuels remarkable cough syrup in her hand from which I was running away. No achievement and contributions benefiting us all. matter how bright the colors on the box, no matter how much I His story underscores the importance of leaders with vision, knew the medicine would stop my coughing, my nana would leaders who believe each of us worthy and capable of meeting undoubtedly find me behind the couch, hiding from the scary the expectation to “Stand and Deliver” and who provide the syrup. Eventually, though, I'd agree to ingest it (usually with some vision, inspiration and support we need to light our inner sort of reward), and feel better within the hour. As in all things, spark. Escalante’s story shows leadership matters. Nana was right. In this election year—which some pundits caution is among As difficult as it is for me to admit this, Secretary Hillary the most critical election in our nation’s history in determining Clinton is cough syrup for me in the modern day. She's good for the future of our country—the leaders we choose and their me, she's good for the party, she's just so hard to take in. vision for our future matter. Let us seek out leaders of vision, leaders who—like Escalante,—inspire, uplift and light our country’s inner spark—our ganas— to Stand and Deliver. The New Democrat 3 February 2016 Martin’s Paris (Continued from page 1) EDITORIAL the industrialized ones took advantage of cheap, plentiful fossil fuels to achieve their high standard of living. It was unfair, The Second Amendment to the Constitution is used they argued, to penalize the emerging nations by requiring inappropriately as an obstacle to sensible gun legislation. Gun them to sacrifice such fuels. But the first and third largest advocates would have people believe that statement absolutely generators of greenhouse gasses, China and India, now suffer prohibits restrictions on the possession of firearms. But neither from horrendous air pollution from burning these fuels. That history nor current practice supports that position. None of the has caused them to agree to accelerate a conversion to green other freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, or guaranteed energy. Mr. Simons added that even here in California, one is elsewhere in the Constitution, are absolute. more likely to die from air pollution than from being hit by a The First Amendment would seem to be absolute and car. unambiguous: He added, we have at last U.S. leadership on this issue. He Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment noted that we could halt global warming if only we put the of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or same effort into green energy that we put into 1) defeating the abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the fascists; 2) the interstate highway system; or 3) putting a man on right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to the moon.
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