Smolen for Congress 2010

Timothy Hannan – Official Campaign Website

About 80 percent of hard-core crimes—murder, rape, assault, and theft—are committed by 20 percent of the criminals.  State law enforcement people obviously should concentrate on dangerous repeat offenders and get them off the streets.

One sensible solution to the crime problem would be to legalize drugs. Like the prohibition of whiskey in the 1920’s, the prohibition of marijuana, cocaine, etc. guarantees that drugs will be sold by criminals. Drug addicts turn to robbery, burglary, embezzlement to pay for their habits. If reputable firms were allowed to produce and sell such drugs in liquor stores, far fewer people would be the victims of such crimes. If we legalize drugs, we’ll make available police resources, court time, and prison cells for the hard-core criminals.

One response to violent crime that will not reduce it is gun control. There are millions of privately owned guns in California, and no ban on guns will change that. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently affirmed, law-abiding individuals have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, not just for hunting but for self-defense.

California Attorney General election, 2010

Smaller Government

This is the issue that keeps me up at night more than any other. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems as though the lunatics are running the asylum, with all due respect of course. Folks, how can we continue to spend at least double the amount of revenue coming in? Who manages their home like this? If we continue down this course, national bankruptcy is INEVITABLE. I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating, we have got to cut spending in the public sector drastically. We have too many programs, departments, entitlements, public empoyees, etc. The natural tendency of government is to grow, and after 200 plus years, ours has become too big and bloated.

We need to begin having a serious discussion about downsizing many of the programs and departments in existence such as: the Dept. of Energy, Agriculture, Education, Commerce, HUD, the Federal Reserve, the FDA, Homeland Security, etc.

Carlos Rodriguez, 28th Congressional District

http://www.rodriguezgoestowashington.com/

Edward Gonzalez is a social liberal, fiscal conservative, who believes in a constitutionally limited government.  He believes that the only legitimate use of government power is in the protection of people’s individual rights.

Edward Gonzalez, 16th Congressional District – San Jose

http://www.edwardmgonzalez.com/

Christina Tobin has devoted her life to protecting the right of all people to vote and run for office, and ensuring all elections are free and equal. As Ralph Nader’s national ballot access coordinator in 2008, she has a deep knowledge and familiarity not only with California’s election law, but also alternative approaches nationwide, which California voters may consider in the future.

Christina is Founder and Chair of The Free and Equal Elections Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, public-policy and advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the politically marginalized and disenfranchised, particularly those of third party and Independent voters and candidates. She is also CEO of Free and Equal, Inc., a ballot access consulting and petitioning firm.

Christina Tobin, Libertarian Party candidate for Secretary of State of California

http://www.tobinforca.org/