Thottam for CA Assembly

Fed up with state bureaucracy, waste and inefficiency? Vote "THOTTAM" for State Assembly.

Experienced. Self-Financed. Results focused. Determined to fight CA's Special Interests...

Have you had enough of government incompetence and bureaucratic overkill? Disgusted with the gridlock in Sacramento, pork barrel politics & and the absence of real reform and leadership? Please see the videos below and my platform statements throughout this website.

I am the only State Assembly candidate who ran has run for this seat before. I ran in 2006 as an antiwar candidate, across the board healthcare reform candidate (supporting single payer healthcare) & true progressive committed to the reinvention of California'sGovernment. I spent less than $1,000 and obtained over 3,200 district votes by running against a pro-war incumbent and bybuilding on platforms of statewide healthcare and educational reform, fiscal responsibility & advancing a real and effective regulation over the influence of Special Interests.

Now, like you, I am completely fed up with a career bureaucrat legislature that is almost completely beholden to lobbyists. One where a typical Assembly representative spends more than half his or her time fundraising and working with lobbyists to co-author pro-corporate bills and legislation.

I ask for your vote and for your help as I run to win. Why? Because California is falling apart. The state has dysfunctional healthcare, public education, and legal systems that I and my campaign team are determined to reform.

My wife Kirstin and I have a newborn son, Luke, whose future is being chained & mortgaged by the state's career politicians -- i.e., by bureaucrats, career lobbyists and trial lawyers who simply don't care about average citizens or the welfare of the voters of California.

I am fully intent on obtaining the 6,000 to 8,000 votes needed to win the June 8th primary. I will work for you and with you -- to effect the reforms needed to move California forward.

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I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU. For Jobs. For Fiscal Discipline. For Real Reform in Education, Health Care and our state's court and legal systems.

For Solutions, Not Rhetoric or Finger-Pointing.

(1) (a) ASSEMBLY 2010 WEBFLYER - Side 1; (b) See Also: Side 2;

(2) Feb 4, 2010 (5 page PDF Campaign letter to West L.A. Democratic Club);

(3) 7 MINUTE "DECADE IN REVIEW VIDEO" & More

Your Voice For Job Growth, for Wasteful Spending Elimination and for bringing a revitalized and energized California into the emerging Global Economy.
Vote Thottam for Reform, Accountability & Results.

"Are you fed up with government lies and politicans without any spine? Peter is the real deal – a true activist who has – since 2002 – been fighting for voters interests, healthcare reform, better public education, district-wide free hi-speed broadband internet access, better jobs, fiscal responsibility, and real reform that will bring California into the 21st Century. He will stand up for Californians in ways that are beyond the comprehension of the other candidates for Assembly. Some of the other candidates are lobbyists or corporate lawyers themselves representing nothing more than the Fat Cats that finance their campaigns. They could care less about real voters. Peter will fight for Californians and for real change. He will bring real solutions, not empty talk."

- Glenn Hopkins (Mar Vista voter ; English Teacher & former United Teachers of LA Co-Chair).

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Latest Campaign Videos:

(1) June 8, 2010 : "Take Back Our Government"

(2) "WE THE PEOPLE" Jobs Creation Call & Anti-Bailout Protest led by Peter Thottam

(LA City Council / Fall 2008)"

See below video. In the fall of 2008, the LA Times reported $8.5 TRILLION of YOUR taxpayer dollars to Bail Out mismanaged U.S. companies & banks. Below is a short videoclip of over 30 voters -- regular citizens like yourselves -- from AD53 at a Fall 2008 protest that Peter organized directly in response to Wall Street & the banking sector's unprecedented and clear theft of U.S. taxpayer dollars to finance both banker bailouts & banker bonuses:

Peter, Kirstin and their son Luke (Fall 2009) and photos of Peter during his week long September 2009 "Take Back Our Government" trip to California's State Capitol, Sacramento.

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thottam4assembly@gmail.com or

peterthottam@gmail.com. You can also just call (310) 497-7255 and ask for a sign, literature and/or bumper sticker. Please provide your name, address & phone number for direct delivery.

VOLUNTER INFORMATION -To volunteer, you can email Jill or Greg via thottam4assembly@gmail.com or call Peter directly at (310) 497-7255. Free lawn signs, bumper stickers are available via the preceding contact info.

THOTTAM'S 6-YEAR ASSEMBLY REFORM PLAN :

(1) PRIORITY #1: JOB GROWTH : California's job base and underlying economy continue to spiral out of control with a special interest beholden legislature focused more on personal power, fundraising and partisan political ideological nonsense rather than long-term solutions and problem solving.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics now puts LA County's official U-6 unemployment rate (its broadest measure) at 22.6%! Manufacturing jobs continue to lead the exodus. I will also work for a Tobin tax on financial transactions that will generate as much as $2 Billion in funds that I will push to be used for actual district job creation. I will use my ties in business, in finance, in the venture capital community and with various business to work every angle possible to increase the number of high paying district jobs in import/export, manufacturing, hi-tech and information technology;

(2) SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE: I will work to aid the passage of HR 676 and comparable resolutions. In 2010, I will work towards immediate passage and approval by California's new Governor of state level single payer healthcare. California's Legislature has twice passed a state-level single payer bill, SB 840, "The California Universal Healthcare Act" in 2006 and again in 2008 (only to have it vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger). Concurrently, as an assembly member, I will fight for comprehensive statewide health system audits audit to encourage billing and administrative simplicity for patients and providers and to reduce overhead costs & to eliminate rampant waste & inefficiency;

(3) CRIME PREVENTION & PRISON REFORM: Demand accountability & results from AD53 city officials with district wide mandatory Anti-Theft, Gang Violence and AD53 graffiti reduction goals;

(4) CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION TO ADDRESS LOBBYISTS/SPECIAL INTERESTS AND OTHER PROBLEMS -- Work with RepairCalifornia.org and the New America Foundation to modernize and restructure our government with a goal of creating real transparency and accountability at all levels. I will also work to incorporate into the Constitution meaninful campaign finance reform and work to roll back the influence of the 1,300+ "Third House" lobbyists in Sacramento.

(5) REAL BUDGET REFORM: PUBLIC EDUCATION, BANKING & COURT LEGAL SYSTEM (FAMILY LAW, PROBATE) & LEGISLATIVE PROCESS REFORM:

Mandate a 2 year budget plan and a fiscal reserve plan. Use the emerging 21st century economy to leverage technologies and structural changes tested by Charter programs to implement statewide education, healthcare, banking & legistlative reform. Ensure this is accompanied by Internet accessible public transparancy and elimination of wasteful overhead. Eliminate waste and concurrently work to lower taxes for Californians.