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bY James “FayGo” clark James “Faygo” Clark, an activist on homelessness, is seeking the District 4 Sacramento City Council seat now held by Steve Hansen.
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immediate drug testing for officers involved in any use-of-force situation, a psychiatric evaluation and randomized drug testing for all officers. I will advocate for a civilian-run licensing board for police. Violations of a strict code of conduct would result in fines or loss of the license. I will address homelessness through a robust set of policies that help individuals obtain essential services specific to their needs. Concepts include tiny home villages attached to a business that employs people at a living wage. We would create sanctioned camping zones—with access to restrooms, water and other services—that move periodically to minimize environmental impacts. Other options include safe parking areas for people living in their cars and multiple small shelters of 20 to 30 beds spread around the city to complete a real “housing first” approach. Sacramento needs a localized Green New Deal to transform our power structure to one that works with the environment. We could be using city-owned areas along our beautiful rivers to install underwater turbines to generate power and a Sac council candidate filtration system to remove toxins. Environmental vows police, environmental impact reports should be mandatory for all new development projects to proceed, except for tempoand economic reform rary emergency shelter projects. We can plant more indigenous plants and trees to help preserve the environment, and transition from petroleum-based You may have seen me around town with Kozmo, forms of transportation to address the climate crisis. my furry companion. I grew up in Sacramento, We have the power to create living-wage jobs as we living in poverty. As I observed more, I began to shift to renewable energy sources. see the suffering all around me. I looked closer at I will propose policies that revitalize the systems that run our lives and how communities without displacing they impact people. In 2011, I joined longtime residents and instead lift the Occupy Wall Street movethem out of poverty. I will bring ment, where I helped at food back the “big box” ordinance My campaign will tables and learned to organize. to make it difficult for large I am running for elected address the epidemic of corporations to open new office because our City police brutality, protect the locations in Sacramento, Council has continually and couple this with a environment and promote disregarded the commutax on large corporations nity’s concerns, while economic reforms to help doing business in the city regularly catering to the raise residents out of to fund one-year subsidies interests of large corporafor longtime residents to open poverty. tions, developers, business businesses in their communities. districts and investors, often to Sacramento needs more the detriment of residents. My low-income, very low-income and campaign will address the epidemic extremely low-income housing to meet of police brutality, protect the environthe real demand. Real rent control and just-cause ment and promote economic reforms to help raise eviction protections are essential to keep people in residents out of poverty. their homes. Higher wages indexed to the cost of The city’s police oversight commission should living and creating green jobs that help make our be restructured to have subpoena power, authority infrastructure more environmentally friendly would to independently investigate use-of-force cases ensure a better quality of life with stability for all the and the power to indict officers who have unjustly residents of Sacramento. □ brutalized someone. My campaign will demand
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I’m going to San Francisco with a couple of my girlfriends I’ve known since we were 3 years old. We’re celebrating our birthdays.
evAngeline lee government employee
My husband and I are going to the rib cook-off … in Reno. So, we like ribs and we will be eating them.
Cl AudiA sHeRRY teacher
My end has already happened. I’m a teacher, but I’m at a charter school and we started back three weeks ago.
CHRis lYnCH healthcare professional
Honestly, this entire summer, all I’ve been trying to do is make progress at work. So my goal, I think by mid-winter, is to be in a management position.
YeR YAng high school secretary
Hopefully just to get another beach day in, since it’s so hot here.
dAvid sooHoo veteran chef
Obviously to prepare for the holidays … Speed is where you make all sorts of mistakes.