Candidate
Forum Re-cap State Assembly District 5 Candidates
CalaverasCounty Taxpayers Association (CCTA) and the Copperopolis Community Center (CCC)
hosted a Candidates Forum at the Historic Armory on April 23, 2012.
Rico Oller
Tim Fitzgerald
Marc Boyd
Five
candidates are running for the State Assembly 5th District. Republican candidates Frank Bigelow, a Madera
County supervisor, and Rico Oller; Democrat candidates Marc Boyd and Tim
Fitzgerald; and Independent Mark Beldon. After redistricting in 2011 by the California
Citizens Redistricting Commission, the new district now includes all of Alpine,
Amador, Calaveras, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne counties and parts of El
Dorado and Placer counties..
Each
candidate was asked a question from questions submitted by residents in
attendance. Questions were vetted by Copperopolis Community Center board
members and Calaveras County Taxpayers Association members. Candidates were
each given a limited amount of time to answer from two minutes to three
minutes. Candidates were rotated for each question. The answers posted here are
condensed.
Opening
statements:
Boyd
– Endorsed by the California Democratic Party…family in the foothills for 100
years… High school teacher… platform education; economic development, environmental
protection and public safety…every job lost is a broken dream…need common
economic goals this district has been neglected too long….cuts to education we
are turning our backs on the future of California.
Fitzgerald
– Holds 5 degrees 2 in history, 2 in Economics and 1 in Philosophy…grass roots
organizer in San Jose and Bay Area…globalization overcrowded planet under…
reform education system.
Oller
– the greatest competition to growing a business is government, the only thing
wrong with California is its government, thankfully legislature has no power
over the weather or they would screw that up too…government needs to get out of
our lives we’ll do just fine on our own thank you.
