David Schwartzman -- Candidate for At-Large Member of the Council of the District of Columbia

My top priority is to confront the crisis of everyday living now faced by a majority of our residents

SEE DAVID'S 2010 CANDIDATE WEBSITE HERE

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See the links below to view David's accomplishments, record, and campaign promises from his run in 2008.

• David Schwartzman's Biography

  Professor, scientist, ecologist, human rights and peace activist, and fair tax advocate... David Schwartzman brings many facets to the table.

• Defeat Poverty DC questionnaire
• Communities for Education Organizing Candidate Questionnaire

  Mayoral control does not address the critical issues facing our city schools...The greatest contributor to poor student performance is child poverty a glaring human rights violation that persists in our community.

• DC Youth Forum: “A Youth Friendly City” Questionnaire
• Teenocracy Questionnaire
• Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, DC 2010 Questionnaire for D.C. Council Candidates
• Jewish Community Relations Council 2010 D.C. Mayoral & Council Candidate Questionnaire
• A Capitol Concern: The disproportionate impact of the justice system on low-Income communities in D.C.
• Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”

  A very revealing interview. Michelle Alexander illuminates how the drug war instigated by Reagan has created mass incarceration of African Americans, depriving them of basic rights, thereby empowering the corporate elite and their representatives in government.

• My Green Justice Speech at Parcel 42 Tent City DCSGP Campaign Rally, July 18, 2010
• Catania's medicine is poison!

  Catania's threat to cut off TANF benefits for truancy is part of the war against the poor, not a solution.

• Stronger measures are needed to get big developers to comply with First Source hiring (51% DC residents) and Living Wage requirements
• Who pays what in DC taxes, where is the tax base?

  Our DC taxes privilege the wealthy at the expense of the majority, while our real tax base could improve the quality of life for all. "To whom much is given, much more is required," The Parable of the Faithful Servant, Gospel of Luke 12:35-48. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" Mark 10:25. A progressive DC tax structure, "tough love for the rich", would surely grease the eye of the needle for DC millionaires.

• Response to Colbert King’s questions

  Colbert King's Questions to Candidates, My Answers

• Washington Post Voters Guide for Primary
• League of Women Voters (DC) Questionnaire
• 2010 DC Government Accountability & Civic Participation DC COUNCIL CANDIDATE SURVEY
• ACLU-NCA questionnaire
• Create Green Collar Jobs for our Youth with Apprenticeship Programs in DC public high schools!

  A real future for our youth!

• Income Inequality and Life Expectancy in the District



  Income Inequality and Life Expectancy in the District

."Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission" Progressive taxation is one big way to reduce these inequities.

• Newsflash!

  Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission. A BLACK DC MAN DOESN'T LIVE AS LONG AS A MAN IN INDIA

• Statehood Versus Voting Rights

  Why Statehood and not just voting rights will get DC residents to the place they need to be and deserve -- one without the stranglehold of Congress.

• Another DC is Possible!

  Why does the District of Columbia have such a high poverty rate, low life expectancy for its majority, and huge income gap between the wealthy and the rest of its community? Who is the FEDERAL City Council? More on Structural Adjustment Programs as a major cause of Poverty

• Hope for D.C. Public Schools

  An outstanding article that goes to the root causes of why so many DC children don't do well in school. This is the reality that is not on the agenda of the Fenty/Rhee regime, but should be. Eliminate child poverty!

• 2008 Campaign, Positions and questionnaires

  At-Large candidate surveys by David Schwartzman

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