Welcome to a new way of running a campaign.
My name is Blas Jacob Cabrera. I go by Jay.
I have committed myself to run for public office for the rest of my life and am declaring my intention to run for Assembly of California in the 21st District for the 2010 election season. Although I am running a long term Governor Campaign, my 2010 election season focus is currently the 21st Assembly District.
My goal in running is to get the issues I represent into public discussion and lay a foundation for my political carrier and future campaigns. Although my goal is to get enough signatures to be on the ballot, my priority is to give the public more choices in who they want as their elected representative. My definition of success is simply to give more variety and ideas to our political discussion. Even if I can’t get enough signatures for the ballot, my campaign can still be a huge success as a write-in candidate.
I am currently gathering pledges for signatures to get on the ballot this year, and for future years. Click here to pledge your signature. Also I have until July 22nd to get signatures for the 2010 elections. You can click here to download the official petition and sign it. It is a lot of signatures and it would be great to get enough signatures for California Assembly, but I will run as a write-in candidate either way. My goal is always to run in the race that I can have the most impact in, and my supporters can vote on what offices you think I would make the most impact in. You can vote by clicking here for this and future elections.
My campaign represents the way I would govern, with integrity and honesty. I will prioritize use of technology to make governance systems that are simple, efficient, and interactive. My hope is to interact personally with individuals and organizations through discussion, responses to questions, online polls, and the media, without the need to take or spend direct campaign contributions.
I want to see government take direction directly from the people through online systems of polling. My goal as a populist candidate is to do what the people want. Currently the top priority for the public is dealing with the economy and jobs.
I see the simplest and most publicly supported ways of improving the economy and increase jobs are as follows:
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Make advantages to hiring workers with incentives for businesses, and reduce the ability to lay off workers. -
Continue increased public works projects through stimulus bills and support for growth of small businesses.
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Additionally we need to fix the banking system to ensure that all low rate loans given to banks are directly loaned out to businesses and stop banks from investing in dividends like hedge funds making a quick buck while risking the future of the economy.
Additional more extravagant ideas I support are as follows:
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Make having a Job a right, and ensure that everyone who wants a job gets a job. -
Increase minimum wage, but make it possible for individuals to legally reduce their own minimum wage to improve chance to get a job and allow our economy to compete with global economies.
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Support development of local economies that buffer and support national and global economies.
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Create a financial parliament of representatives from organizations and businesses to help develop policies that manage the balance of the economy(s).
For more information about ideas to improve the economy and increase jobs check out my platform. Also you can vote for what issues are the most important for you, or suggest new ideas.
My campaign will show that with time, patience, and interactive education that money is not necessary to run a successful campaign. My campaign will run entirely on volunteer and in-kind donations and have no direct fundraising. All contributions will go to a non-partizan organization that supports any candidate or ballot campaign that runs entirely by volunteers. For more information about this new committee click here.
