John Vasconcellos
Serving 2nd term in the California State Senate, after
30 years in State Assembly, representing the heart of Silicon Valley
(engine of California's prosperity).
Called 'a pragmatic idealist', 'the conscience of the
Legislature', 'the Johnny Appleseed of Self Esteem'
Chair:
- Committee on Education,
- Select Committee on Economic Development,
- Subcommittee on Aging and Long Term Care,
- Joint Committee on Preparing California for the 21st Century (co-chair)
- Internet Caucus (co-chair)
Member of Committees:
- Public Safety (Vice Chair)
- Budget (Education subcommittee)
- Health and Human Services
- Energy, Utilities and Communications
Founder:
- California Task Force to Promote Self Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility,
- Assembly Democratic Economic Prosperity Team (ADEPT)
Author of:
- A Liberating Vision: Politics for Growing Humans,(1979)
- TOUGH & SMART PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAM (1995),
- CALIFORNIA/JAPAN PARTNERSHIP AGENDA (1997),
- Blueprints for a Golden State (1997),
- Welcoming This Next American Revolution: Toward a 21st Century Politics of Trust, Healing and Hope (200?),
Commitments:
- recognizing California as the human frontier, seedbed of revolutions in hitech, gender, race, self-esteem, global economy, interactive communications, politics;
- meeting our primary challenge: realizing the promise of our multicultural democracy, with gender equity, in the global economy, in this age of technology;
- redesigning society to encourage development of healthy, self-realizing, responsible human beings;
- developing a new human politics based on belief we human beings are innately inclined toward becoming life-affirming, constructive, responsible, trustworthy;
Inviting you: To enlist as a partner in moving all Californians, individually and altogether -
- TOWARD A NEW HUMAN POLITICS,
- TOWARD A HEALTHIER STATE!
- TOWARD A STATE OF ESTEEM
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